What are your personal speed limits

[Musketeer]

20-20
30-30
40-40
50-50
>60- depends on my mood
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Current Bike: Yamaha XSR900 Previous bikes: Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade, Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja, Aprilia RS125 2-stroke

[Atomic Punk]

Average speed cameras clock the average speed. Loads on the A40 with rear facing cams to catch bikes as well, but the key here is average speed
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[Baffler186]

Mostly stick to the limit, but if I'm bored or in a rush I will exceed for fun. Mostly just on main DCW though. A-roads are usually blocked up with old people doing 35, and it's not wise to press on in Devon when you could be met around the corner with a tractor, horse or lycra brigade riding 19-abreast.

That said, I do have spurts in town where I don't look at the speedo, but it is not sustained.
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Previous: 2009 CBF125, 1998 GSF600, 2004 FZ6 Fazer, 1978 CB400a Hondamatic

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[chickenstrip]

[M.C]

[Davemc37]

[Tierbirdy]

[ADSrox0r]

We're reasonably lucky up in North Yorkshire with virtually no fixed speed cameras. The vans on the other hand...ha, yeah those sneaky feckers are around every bend on a sunny day.

As for speed limits, I'll usually always stay under 20 in a 20 simply because it usually indicates a school zone (up here anyway) so that's just a given being a parent (some would argue just being a decent oomin bean should cover that but I do think your awareness of kids on the road is heightened once you have your own)

30, meh usually within the 10% no reason to hoon around town like a ped boi.

40, depends on the traffic flow. If it's going at 47 then I'll go 47 otherwise on a clear road I'll tend to stick within limits.

NSL and above, fair game really just don't get caught.
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[DRZ4Hunned]

20 - up to 40 (20 if school time)
30 - up to 40
40 - up to 60
50 - up to 100
60 - up to 100
70 - up to 100

I've never been over 100mph so possibly even more?


Most of the time it depends on what my vehicle sits most comfortably at in certain gear.
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[recman]

110-130 pretty much everywhere. 110 if I'm near a school.

[Rogerborg]

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[c_dug]

I once did 10 times the speed limit, just because I could.

Some limits are just plain silly.
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[M.C]

[barrkel]

In the UK, outside of London: 20->25, 30->30, 40->46, 50->57, NSL -> conditions.

In London, conditions. Speed limits have become politicised and no longer reflect risk or prevailing traffic speeds. Police have mostly abdicated traffic policing to fixed speed cameras. There are a handful of speed trap locations, but if you commute you'll learn where they are when you first spot them, and then you just treat them like fixed speed cameras.

On continent, 30kph->40, 50->50, 70->70, 90+ -> conditions.

Generally, outside of cities, police most care about towns and villages, that means 30mph / 50kph limits. They'll get you with speed guns coming around blind corners - observations won't help you.

GPS helps with fixed speed cameras on unknown roads. Mobile cameras are mostly just bad luck, and I've never been unlucky yet.
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[B0ndy]

Depends on whether I know the road, where the junctions are, possible retard peds running out etc. If I don't know the road I will stick to the speed limits and ride cautiously.
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[stevo as b4]

But surely only a total cock face would fit a GPS device to their bike or car, just to warn them about fixed camera sites?

If you know where your going you don't need GPS and anyone that uses it despite that is a sad prick IMO.

20mph zones is most of London won't ever worry me. Im amazed that some of you continue to ride central London everyday, and what's worse is that some of you London people, could go on a 1-2hour ride out from a North Borough to a south Borough, and never see country roads or even single carriageway NSL roads. Fuck that shit!

How do you keep motivated if your ride outs are all things like South Croydon up to the Ace cafe and back. I'd expect that there isn't a good or interesting road anywhere on that route at all?

Oh yeah and Shaggy has given me something to think about. Maybe I need an Enfield, but a sticky tyred, immensely well braked supermotard version for the sort of riding I like to do. If they have a bit of an on/off manic powerband, and a ton of aftermarket tune up parts then I'm sold!

[stevo as b4]

One positive of a 20mph London, is that in theory it should make it perfect for electric assisted cycles, as the go to, primary and best form of daily transport?

If I had to live there, I'd want to ride nothing else TBH.

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[andyscooter]

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