Overtaking at a speed bump
Discussion
Mr2Mike said:
tating if you have to follow some cretin who's lowered their car so much that they can barely make it over without ripping the exhaust off. It might only be a few seconds on one speed bump, but there are many roads with numerous speed bumps within a short distance.
I have owned three cars that would regularly ground out on speed bumps if taken at anything more than a crawl (and in some cases even at that speed if not taken diagonally).They had quoted ground clearances of 130mm, 124mm and 109mm - all were road legal and unmodified.
No road calming measure should be designed in such a way that it can cause damage to a road legal car being driven legally.
LoonR1 said:
They don't. If a speed bump is there then it must be possible to go over it at the speed limit without damaging your car. If that isn't possible then you can have it removed via an appeal to the local council. Although IME what tends to happen is the speed limit is reduced
Source for that? There are big blob type speed bumps around Bermondsey that scrape my undertrays if I try to straddle them. If there's nothing coming the other way I can go between them, otherwise I have to mount the thing with one side of my car.SonicShadow said:
LoonR1 said:
They don't. If a speed bump is there then it must be possible to go over it at the speed limit without damaging your car. If that isn't possible then you can have it removed via an appeal to the local council. Although IME what tends to happen is the speed limit is reduced
Source for that? There are big blob type speed bumps around Bermondsey that scrape my undertrays if I try to straddle them. If there's nothing coming the other way I can go between them, otherwise I have to mount the thing with one side of my car.All that jazz said:
I'd prepare myself for a long wait if I were you.
I'm just curious more than anything else. I have no intention of appealing to the local authority (Southwark Council I think from Google?) as I'm only there a couple times a week. Unfortunately there's no route to avoid them.All that jazz said:
SonicShadow said:
LoonR1 said:
They don't. If a speed bump is there then it must be possible to go over it at the speed limit without damaging your car. If that isn't possible then you can have it removed via an appeal to the local council. Although IME what tends to happen is the speed limit is reduced
Source for that? There are big blob type speed bumps around Bermondsey that scrape my undertrays if I try to straddle them. If there's nothing coming the other way I can go between them, otherwise I have to mount the thing with one side of my car.I see you're taking a different tack now allThatJazz, as you've been called on BS you were spouting. I'm happy to admit when I'm wrong.
LoonR1 said:
All that jazz said:
SonicShadow said:
LoonR1 said:
They don't. If a speed bump is there then it must be possible to go over it at the speed limit without damaging your car. If that isn't possible then you can have it removed via an appeal to the local council. Although IME what tends to happen is the speed limit is reduced
Source for that? There are big blob type speed bumps around Bermondsey that scrape my undertrays if I try to straddle them. If there's nothing coming the other way I can go between them, otherwise I have to mount the thing with one side of my car.I see you're taking a different tack now allThatJazz, as you've been called on BS you were spouting. I'm happy to admit when I'm wrong.
All that jazz said:
No I just can't be arsed arguing with you as I know that you go to great lengths in every thread to keep up your Driving God status and it's better just to laugh at you rather than (attempt to) enter into any discussion with you. So yes, YOU WIN! CONGRATS!!
I'm not a driving God. I find driving tedious nowadays and take the train as much as possible. I've probably done more miles in my van lugging my race bike about them my car this year. Shame it was going so well.
Joeguard1990 said:
My car is lowered enough in that I can't do 20 MPH over speed bumps where that is the speed limit otherwise the bottom would scrape.
Having said that I would have no issue with someone overtaking me if they felt that I was holding them up while trying not to damage my car
I was overtaken by a middled aged women in a Polo whilst I was negotiating a speed bump in a stupid low 106 that I had. I was relieved that she didn't have to sit behind me whilst I divvered around like a dHaving said that I would have no issue with someone overtaking me if they felt that I was holding them up while trying not to damage my car
head whilst trying to keep my exhaust in place.I have pulled over on a few occasions and let cars pass as I've had to go slow over speed bumps. And I despise cars that are too low to clear speed bumps. Saying that, I despise speed bumps even more.
I have to crawl over speed bumps in the TVR. It's quite low and the suspension is rock-hard so even at slow speeds a high-walled speed bump feels akin to mounting the kerb in a more civilised car. There's only one road I take it down that has speed bumps, and I've been overtaken on one or two occasions (and waved people past a few times too) as there's no point in hanging about someone doing 5 -> 20 -> 5 mph on a 30mph road. The bumps are close enough together that I can't really accelerate up to speed and then brake to get over the bump again without looking like a knob.
I'm curious as to the construction of modern speed bumps though. The bumps round here are either the 3 islands across the road, so buses can get through without slowing down but anything with a narrower track has to slow, or the really irritating skinny little bump that's only a few inches in length. Strangely it's more comfortable to go over those at a faster speed than it is a slower speed, although it probably isn't doing the car's suspension any good going faster.
The speed bumps around where my parents live have been there since I was a toddler, and they're the traditional long, shallow hump that's fine at normal driving speeds. The newer speed bumps are a lot more aggressive and it's quite telling that the bumps in the old roads don't have many grooves in them, whereas bumps less than a year old have big gouges in them where people have (assumedly) gone over them at the same speed they did the bump it replaced, and grounded as a result.
I'm curious as to the construction of modern speed bumps though. The bumps round here are either the 3 islands across the road, so buses can get through without slowing down but anything with a narrower track has to slow, or the really irritating skinny little bump that's only a few inches in length. Strangely it's more comfortable to go over those at a faster speed than it is a slower speed, although it probably isn't doing the car's suspension any good going faster.
The speed bumps around where my parents live have been there since I was a toddler, and they're the traditional long, shallow hump that's fine at normal driving speeds. The newer speed bumps are a lot more aggressive and it's quite telling that the bumps in the old roads don't have many grooves in them, whereas bumps less than a year old have big gouges in them where people have (assumedly) gone over them at the same speed they did the bump it replaced, and grounded as a result.
I enjoy overtaking opportunities speed bumps on my motorbike - simply stand on the pegs and let your knees flex. No speed limits broken, no kittens killed, never with oncoming traffic.
I'm another one who wonders how it's right to put things that slow you below the limit, in the road.
But I'd rather have bump and humps in the road than chicanes where traffic travelling in either direction is forced onto the same piece of tarmac... hopefully taking it in turns, but in practise occasionally (literally) fatal.
I'm another one who wonders how it's right to put things that slow you below the limit, in the road.
But I'd rather have bump and humps in the road than chicanes where traffic travelling in either direction is forced onto the same piece of tarmac... hopefully taking it in turns, but in practise occasionally (literally) fatal.
OP you sound like a knob. I can picture you now driving around in your 4x4 thinking you're lord of the manor. Guess what, I've had somebody giving it the biggun in a 4x4 before and it did'nt end well for them. Just remember this, you may think you're really important driving around in a 4x4 but when you get out of it you're just a normal person. Nothing to protect you now
LudaMusser said:
OP you sound like a knob. I can picture you now driving around in your 4x4 thinking you're lord of the manor. Guess what, I've had somebody giving it the biggun in a 4x4 before and it did'nt end well for them. Just remember this, you may think you're really important driving around in a 4x4 but when you get out of it you're just a normal person. Nothing to protect you now
supermono said:
There is a school of thought whereby sometimes residents may not be sure their obstacle course is having any effect. Sometimes folks will give a friendly toot-toot as they traverse the speed hump in the small hours, just to let them know
petrol has also been known to break down some of the poorly sited ones ,apparently.LudaMusser said:
OP you sound like a knob. I can picture you now driving around in your 4x4 thinking you're lord of the manor. Guess what, I've had somebody giving it the biggun in a 4x4 before and it did'nt end well for them. Just remember this, you may think you're really important driving around in a 4x4 but when you get out of it you're just a normal person. Nothing to protect you now
Oh dear, here we go, is school out already?wc98 said:
supermono said:
There is a school of thought whereby sometimes residents may not be sure their obstacle course is having any effect. Sometimes folks will give a friendly toot-toot as they traverse the speed hump in the small hours, just to let them know
petrol has also been known to break down some of the poorly sited ones ,apparently.LudaMusser said:
OP you sound like a knob. I can picture you now driving around in your 4x4 thinking you're lord of the manor. Guess what, I've had somebody giving it the biggun in a 4x4 before and it did'nt end well for them. Just remember this, you may think you're really important driving around in a 4x4 but when you get out of it you're just a normal person. Nothing to protect you now
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