scottish police to have 3 day crack down on country speeding

colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8680747.stm
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yen_powell · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Karma :

Make everyone ride in kilts, that'd slow 'em down. Not the fear of damage in the event of an off, no, just the icy cold draught at illegal speeds! Shocked

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Wafer_Thin_Ham · Super Spammer Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Karma :

Meh, it's only three days. Business as usual for the 362. Laughing

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pa_broon74 · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

Two things.

Firstly, this seems less of a safety intiative and more of a profit drive. Secondly, 70% of accidents happen on rural roads in Scotland because 70% of the roads in Scotland are (probably) rural.

I mean I haven't measured it, but anything outwith the central belt is rural more or less.

Just seems to me, they know a great many motorcyclists will be heading for Stranraer so why not put up lots of speed traps. I bet they'd put tolbooths up if they thought they could get away with it.

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Kwaks · I'm not a fast rider Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Karma :

Same every year to coincide with the NW. For once they know all the bikes are heading in the same direction so can't warn each other Laughing

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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Last time they did this, they swamped the procurator fiscals office with so many prosecutions they were totally snowed under. A lot of them never got dealt with in the strict 6 month statute of limitations we have in Scotland.

I should know. I got stopped, cautioned and NIPed in the back of the police car for 95 in a 60 on the A7. Heard nothing more about it.
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Walloper · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Karma :

Any cnut with a serious attitude to 'bikiing' in Scotland knows that those East Coast Polis (Especially the Fife Fcukers) have a Hard-on for speeding.
It is so boring on the East Coast they need to find something to do with the Poll Tax money.

The West Coast is always the Best.

Fatal RTA statistics for rural roads are interesting. Roads there are less congested but the average SPEED is higher than urban roads.

Is this evidence that speed maybe has something to do with dying? Razz

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yuri2085 · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Karma :

Hes just trying to be all remorseful hoping he can blame it on the bike and get away with it.
I like to think his harsh punishment was because of how much of a cunt he is!

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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

To be fair he has a point although I wouldn't agree with restricting.

It is incredibly easy to go fast on a faired 600 let alone a 1300.

I would have thought on a 1300, anything below 80mph would feel like crawling.

I'm hardly a speed demon generally, but was caught doing 100mph on an overtake and got 6points within 2 years of getting my license, so had to do my test again.

My solution was to ride around without fairings for a while.

A bit of healthy wind blast makes you feel the speed more.
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pa_broon74 · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

Never mind any of that shit.

He had his kid on the back, that is an inexcusable laspe of judgement in my book. I don't care what bike your on, it might be able to get to 122mph in the blink of an eye, but you'd have to be completely disengaged from reality to not notice.

The man is a first class tit and not in a good way.

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tahrey · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Jul 2010 Karma :

If it's impossible to ride it without hitting 3 figures...

...how does he manage to control it around town?

If we say his can top 180 and mine 60, it'd be like me saying I can't keep it down to 20mph past a school with the "temporary 20 limit" lights flashing because it's unridable below 40.

Visitor Q · $25 whore Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Karma :

9 months in nick for 166mph...

Here

Fucking UK.
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What sort of penalties could someone get for doing 130mph in a 60? Just out of curiosity.

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Two weeks in the stocks, all your pets neutered in front of you, your mum put through all the I'm A Celebrity challenges, bike crushed and made into tins for Fosters, £2 squillion pound fine and imprisonment until the heat death of the universe or 2013, whichever's longer.