What stops you excessively speeding?
Poll: What stops you excessively speeding?
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Discussion
e8_pack said:
Crusoe said:
Sustained high speed is hard work and tiring, especially in something other than an uber barge that is designed for it. 70ish is a decent cruising speed for a long journey so I don’t often go much faster unless keeping up with traffic.
Sitting behind the wheel longer is also tiring. Especially at a mudane uninteresting speed that is frankly quite boring.
I do speed excessively, and as I said to my girlfriend just the other day, it's really only a matter of time before I get caught and properly rogered for it.
I can't help it. I just love burying the throttle and hearing the spooling of turbos, the bark of a flat 6 or the howl of a V10... As well as the rush of impending death and I crack open the throttle on a 1000cc bike.
Plus I just like getting places quickly, and get very bored at legal speeds.
Some of my friends are worse though. They have really silly big-BHP cars and think nothing of hitting 180mph+ on a public road when the mood takes them.
Having said that, I'm a very cautious and suspicious driver who normally always spots unmarked cars and suchlike from a distance while the other 99% of brain dead traffic is oblivious.
I'll get caught at some point though and it won't be pleasant.
I can't help it. I just love burying the throttle and hearing the spooling of turbos, the bark of a flat 6 or the howl of a V10... As well as the rush of impending death and I crack open the throttle on a 1000cc bike.
Plus I just like getting places quickly, and get very bored at legal speeds.
Some of my friends are worse though. They have really silly big-BHP cars and think nothing of hitting 180mph+ on a public road when the mood takes them.
Having said that, I'm a very cautious and suspicious driver who normally always spots unmarked cars and suchlike from a distance while the other 99% of brain dead traffic is oblivious.
I'll get caught at some point though and it won't be pleasant.
It's only "excessively speeding" in relation to the ridiculously low speed limit we have been arbitrarily saddled with since 1966. If the limit had gone up in line with vehicle safety, tyre technology etc it would now be about 140mph on motorways and 120mph on A-roads. That seems like a reasonable place to put a "line in the sand" and say "it is never safe to go any faster than this under any circumstances ever, and you will be penalised if you do so".
We have 3D surround-sound digital vehicles being held to a silent-movie speed limit, which is why catching people breaking it is like shooting fish in a barrel.
We have 3D surround-sound digital vehicles being held to a silent-movie speed limit, which is why catching people breaking it is like shooting fish in a barrel.
never crossed my mind today when stretching the 911 down the A1 today on the Nokian Winters. OK, not up to 1.5 leptons.... but pressing on at points.I wanted to vote for both "fear of getting caught" and "cost of fuel".
I feel I grew up with speeding ingrained in the culture. It seems in the Eighties, people sped on telly (every hero with a car drove fast). Journalists in car mags derided speed limits, I'm sure my Dad paid scant attention to speed limits and every body else seemed to treat limits as a reference rather than absolute.
Hence when I started driving, I drove like my hair was on fire, except past the newly erected evil Gatsos!
Thing is in the early part of my driving career I worked close to home in the centre of my home town Reading, so I didn't actually need a licence, which probably effected my perception of risk!
Later on I need to drive distance to work, the licence becomes far more important and as fuel costs go up I find that I now drive pretty much every were at the limit, rather than over it. Getting old and sensible sucks!
I feel I grew up with speeding ingrained in the culture. It seems in the Eighties, people sped on telly (every hero with a car drove fast). Journalists in car mags derided speed limits, I'm sure my Dad paid scant attention to speed limits and every body else seemed to treat limits as a reference rather than absolute.
Hence when I started driving, I drove like my hair was on fire, except past the newly erected evil Gatsos!
Thing is in the early part of my driving career I worked close to home in the centre of my home town Reading, so I didn't actually need a licence, which probably effected my perception of risk!
Later on I need to drive distance to work, the licence becomes far more important and as fuel costs go up I find that I now drive pretty much every were at the limit, rather than over it. Getting old and sensible sucks!
interloper said:
I wanted to vote for both "fear of getting caught" and "cost of fuel".
Fuel isn't really that expensive here though, we just think it is.Plus, it's quite funny filling up with £80 of V-Power in your local garage, only to be filling up there again in the same car, paying the same attendant, only 3 hours later.... That confuses them
"Didn't you just fill up a couple of hours ago??"
TVaRt said:
D) traffic! Seems harder and harder to get a nice quiet stretch of entertaining road these days!
Nailed it right there. It did not used to be like that. During the 1960s and 70s, I frequently commuted between Essex and Gloucestershire travelling overnight in the early hours. Back then, once clear of London, I'd hardly see another vehicle of any description on the drive through the night. Deep Joy ... 
No M40 Motorway back then either apart from a few bits here and there. Move on a few decades and do that same or any journey during the small hours and it is not unusual to get held up in five mile traffic queues at 1.30 am on Motorways! Even when the roads are hold up free in the small hours, huge numbers of massive articulated six axle trucks always on the go 24/7 through the night ... lines and lines of them often indulging in "Elephant Racing" .....
Compared to those long since past good old days, traveling on UK's roads at anytime 24/7 now has become a form of logistical madness. What a joy the M25 is too... by far the worst form of madness ....
Consider this, my point to point journey times back then were quicker than is now possible in modern far more able and faster cars. Simply due to traffic volumes and density plus the massive increase in individual vehicle sizes and weight, be they private cars or articulated trucks.
Written with my rose tinteds secure and tight in their case...
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