Caught speeding in Dunkerque, license taken away....

[scjgreen]

dannyDC2 said:

With regard to getting 750 euro out at once, yes that was a pain in the arse. I had to go to 2 different banks, get 500 out on my HSBC debit card and then withdraw 250 on my Halifax Clarity credit card. Fortunately I phoned up the bank yesterday and they wavered any fees due to the emergency. Still about a 3% fee overall so about 20 euro in fees.

Wouldn't you have just stood at the same Cashpoint and used 2 different cards?

[Jarcy]

Neonblau said:

Despite the appearance it's not really the "middle of nowhere", it's the hinterland between the port and the rest of France. I've made the trip out of Dunkirk quite a few times this year and a couple of things I've noticed every time. Firstly there are always police cars/bikes that just seem to be hanging about these roads, doesn't seem to matter what time - anyone clocking 90 is a free gift for them. Secondly these roads are crap. Most of them seem to be just the bare minimum layer of tarmac slapped down on whatever was there and not really designed for any kind of speed. The whole area looks like it's been railway sidings or something, a line still runs through it, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of these roads are designed with a short life pending redevelopment.

Fair enough, if you have local knowledge and the road condition isn't conducive to pressing-on.

I have a stretch of road local to me - it's the first 60 limit on heading out of town, but only lasts 1/2 mile before dropping back down to 30 for the next village. I think it's only a matter of time before the council downgrade it to a 30. It's happening all around where I live. But I'll rue the day when it happens. We need to fight to cling onto the few opportunities where we can stretch our legs.

[Neonblau]

TooMany2cvs said:

I wonder why that might be...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34562209

Could be, but I doubt it. The first couple of times I passed through I thought it was a couple of patrols having a break, but it looks like they are stationed there. They're not the national force and their little Renaults wouldn't be much use against a swarm of migrants. Surprising really given the proximity to Calais.

[dannyDC2]

sealtt said:

dannyDC2 said:

If anyone's curious, I've decided it was worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTpTxGyVUJc

8:04BTG

Very nice driving, are you quite familiar with the track? Seems like you know your way around there.

P.S. that Porsche flying by made me jump, shows you how quick those cars are.

Thanks, I've done around 50 laps in real life, thousands virtually. That said I don't think a thousand virtual lap is worth more than one real one!

Those Porsches can do 7 minute BTGs in the right hands. He was behind me from the top of Adenau forest but we kept about the same pace through those areas, but coming up to the fast bits I knew he'd be able to pass me so let him pass.

[dannyDC2]

scjgreen said:

dannyDC2 said:

With regard to getting 750 euro out at once, yes that was a pain in the arse. I had to go to 2 different banks, get 500 out on my HSBC debit card and then withdraw 250 on my Halifax Clarity credit card. Fortunately I phoned up the bank yesterday and they wavered any fees due to the emergency. Still about a 3% fee overall so about 20 euro in fees.

Wouldn't you have just stood at the same Cashpoint and used 2 different cards?

That's what I did, but the first bank totally refused me on both cards..

[TooMany2cvs]

Neonblau said:

TooMany2cvs said:

I wonder why that might be...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34562209

Could be, but I doubt it. The first couple of times I passed through I thought it was a couple of patrols having a break, but it looks like they are stationed there. They're not the national force and their little Renaults wouldn't be much use against a swarm of migrants. Surprising really given the proximity to Calais.

We came through Dunkerque in early August - quite a bit of the multiplicity of port roadways was in use as a stack for HGVs. There were a couple of throngs of a dozen or so poor sods - sub-Saharan Africans mostly, at a guess, certainly not from the Levant - wandering towards the port itself.

[Neonblau]

TooMany2cvs said:

We came through Dunkerque in early August - quite a bit of the multiplicity of port roadways was in use as a stack for HGVs. There were a couple of throngs of a dozen or so poor sods - sub-Saharan Africans mostly, at a guess, certainly not from the Levant - wandering towards the port itself.

Interesting - I was last there in mid September and the place was empty. The HGVs were there and the weather was pretty wet. It's a vast area and I guess a few migrants could lose themselves in the wasteland.

It is a real dump though and the actual terminal is probably one of the worst in Europe. Calais is more suited to a "storming of trucks" type attack as Dunkirk just seems empty most of the time.

But the fares are cheaper, I can get in and out of the place reasonably quickly and it suits my onward route.

[dacouch]

Twice the speed limit is hardly a technical infringement

[Pete317]

dacouch said:

Twice the speed limit is hardly a technical infringement

Exceeding the speed limit, by however much, is a technical infringement.

Besides which, whether the speed limit is properly set for that road is a technical issue, so anything that stems from that must be a technical issue

Edited by Pete317 on Monday 26th October 09:03

[wc98]

dannyDC2 said:

sealtt said:

dannyDC2 said:

If anyone's curious, I've decided it was worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTpTxGyVUJc

8:04BTG

Very nice driving, are you quite familiar with the track? Seems like you know your way around there.

P.S. that Porsche flying by made me jump, shows you how quick those cars are.

Thanks, I've done around 50 laps in real life, thousands virtually. That said I don't think a thousand virtual lap is worth more than one real one!

Those Porsches can do 7 minute BTGs in the right hands. He was behind me from the top of Adenau forest but we kept about the same pace through those areas, but coming up to the fast bits I knew he'd be able to pass me so let him pass.

that was nice lap , on another day it would have been sub 8. i would imagine you will get that time down within your next 50 laps, without pushing any harder at all. getting a better flow from pflanzgarten to schwalbenschwansch will save you a fair bit time and actually make it easier to drive. well set up car as well.

[anonymous-user]

Pete317 said:

dacouch said:

Twice the speed limit is hardly a technical infringement

Exceeding the speed limit, by however much, is a technical infringement.

Besides which, whether the speed limit is properly set for that road is a technical issue, so anything that stems from that must be a technical issue

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 26th October 09:03

Oh dear....

[dannyDC2]

Got my license back through the post last week. Thinking that will be the end of it.

[Stickyfinger]

dannyDC2 said:

Got my license back through the post last week. Thinking that will be the end of it.

But will it be the end of the thread ?

[vsonix]

DaveH23 said:

cashmax said:

They ONLY take cash.

What hapopens if you don't have any and no means of withdrawing any?

car impounded and/or a night or seven 'dans la taule'

[Hilts]

Breadvan72 said:

anothernameitist said:

Report your license as lost ...

...

I give up, I really do.

You won't though. You'll still be here acting the smartass.

Yes, I know you're being "rhetorical" unless you do give up but you won't.

Really who gives a fk...licence...license. You know the meaning.

[TroubledSoul]

Christ, good to see there's just a queue of folk lining up to have a pop at a poster on here and then a bunch more waiting to pick apart every bit of the story!

[Stickyfinger]

anonymous said:

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3x the limit ?.....stop being so melodramatic

[Pete317]

Stickyfinger said:

anonymous said:

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3x the limit ?.....stop being so melodramatic

Good thing they didn't make the limit 10mph then - he would then have been doing 9x the limit

[TimmyMallett]

Minus 10 man points. The correct response in these situations is to slap them with your passport and point at the front and shout loudly 'Vous manger du fromage reddition singe'


Also, bad luck on the speeding front. Shame everyone has decided to go a bit postal about and get the pitchforks out.

[TroubledSoul]

anonymous said:

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It really was better in the old days! Having to back up and justify everything you say these days is a bit extreme....