Self posting video gets him Nine months inside
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neelyp said:
moanthebairns said:
RemaL said:
moanthebairns said:
After a google that would be approx 315 meters . so whats the stopping distance then from 70.
for the edit
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=390...
Edited by RemaL on Wednesday 2nd September 15:29
so I've no idea where you got your figures from
I'd be asking the question if I was up in the stand. Is it 3 Victoria parks or 3 hampden parks, because 3 hampden parks = 4 Victoria Parks, but if its 3 Victoria parks that's only really 2 and a bit at the Falkirk stadium not 3.
I realise this means nothing to anyone on here as its BB but if we are going to use football pitches as a unit of measurement can we note that they can differ by 30 m in length.
Perhaps.
Buy anywho before we get into a Lounge debate, even at 315mtr more or less that's much further than it would take to stop from 147mph I would have thought
plenty of stopping distance calculators around all with similar results
http://britishsuperbikeschool.com/2015/03/31/motor...
http://forensicdynamics.com/stopping-braking-dista...
http://www.bikesafer.com/detail/braketime.html
say 1500ft or 450m from 180mph is about 4 football pitches
http://britishsuperbikeschool.com/2015/03/31/motor...
http://forensicdynamics.com/stopping-braking-dista...
http://www.bikesafer.com/detail/braketime.html
say 1500ft or 450m from 180mph is about 4 football pitches
Actually, I count 4 junctions on that section, if you include the on/off access to both Auchterarder and Aberuthven, as well as the junction for Whitemoss and the entrance to the sewage works.
Where your protests fall on deaf ears, really, is irrespective of whether you were testing or calibrating, whether it was 10 at night or 4 in the morning, whether there was a full moon or not, or whatever Neil Grieg may or may not say, you were banged to rights and caught speeding at over 140 mph.
There have certainly been fatalities at the Auchterarder junction in the past, so they are a little sensitive there.
While not wishing to drag us all into the same category, some of us have indeed exceeded the limits as specified by the Road Traffic Act, so I, for one, will not claim to be an angel in this respect at all, but courts tend to take a very dim view on speeds such as you were doing. There is simply no excuse OR justification for doing what you did, except maybe to yourself, and that is more or less what the court said.
You can calibrate your LPG system on a rolling road if you really need to calibrate it for those speeds, or as the Sherriff suggested, on a race track.
Bottom line, you broke the first law of speeding - you got caught. That the press may have sensationalised your story, got the facts wrong, made stuff up, live with it. That's the media for you, and you were in their sights.
Where your protests fall on deaf ears, really, is irrespective of whether you were testing or calibrating, whether it was 10 at night or 4 in the morning, whether there was a full moon or not, or whatever Neil Grieg may or may not say, you were banged to rights and caught speeding at over 140 mph.
There have certainly been fatalities at the Auchterarder junction in the past, so they are a little sensitive there.
While not wishing to drag us all into the same category, some of us have indeed exceeded the limits as specified by the Road Traffic Act, so I, for one, will not claim to be an angel in this respect at all, but courts tend to take a very dim view on speeds such as you were doing. There is simply no excuse OR justification for doing what you did, except maybe to yourself, and that is more or less what the court said.
You can calibrate your LPG system on a rolling road if you really need to calibrate it for those speeds, or as the Sherriff suggested, on a race track.
Bottom line, you broke the first law of speeding - you got caught. That the press may have sensationalised your story, got the facts wrong, made stuff up, live with it. That's the media for you, and you were in their sights.
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