108 in a 30 limit
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Breadvan72 said:
br d said:
I briefly hit a ton in a 30 limit with the police behind me once, copper gave me a thumbs up, true story guv and all that.
"Pulled me over. Turned out he was a biker too. Loved the Ninja. Chatted bikes. No ticket. Top lad." I did relay the story here a few years ago when it happened because I thought it might be of interest to people on a motoring forum but your clever riposte is far more interesting.
br d said:
Breadvan72 said:
br d said:
I briefly hit a ton in a 30 limit with the police behind me once, copper gave me a thumbs up, true story guv and all that.
"Pulled me over. Turned out he was a biker too. Loved the Ninja. Chatted bikes. No ticket. Top lad." I did relay the story here a few years ago when it happened because I thought it might be of interest to people on a motoring forum but your clever riposte is far more interesting.
br d said:
Breadvan72 said:
br d said:
I briefly hit a ton in a 30 limit with the police behind me once, copper gave me a thumbs up, true story guv and all that.
"Pulled me over. Turned out he was a biker too. Loved the Ninja. Chatted bikes. No ticket. Top lad." I did relay the story here a few years ago when it happened because I thought it might be of interest to people on a motoring forum but your clever riposte is far more interesting.
over_the_hill said:
Piginapoke said:
I’m really hoping someone’s going to argue it was fine because it wasn’t raining
Let's go full on PHPH_mode said:
It was daylight and dry.
Just a motoring enthusiast enjoying his car
Speed limit is too low for that road
The overtake looked fine to me, the guy in the camera car should pay more attention and use his mirrors
Mumsnet is that way --->
Modern cars are easily capable of reaching that speed without you realising it
Anymore of the usual chestnuts ?Just a motoring enthusiast enjoying his car
Speed limit is too low for that road
The overtake looked fine to me, the guy in the camera car should pay more attention and use his mirrors
Mumsnet is that way --->
Modern cars are easily capable of reaching that speed without you realising it
TX.
over_the_hill said:
Piginapoke said:
I’m really hoping someone’s going to argue it was fine because it wasn’t raining
Let's go full on PHPH_mode said:
It was daylight and dry.
Just a motoring enthusiast enjoying his car
Speed limit is too low for that road
The overtake looked fine to me, the guy in the camera car should pay more attention and use his mirrors
Mumsnet is that way --->
Modern cars are easily capable of reaching that speed without you realising it
Anymore of the usual chestnuts ?Just a motoring enthusiast enjoying his car
Speed limit is too low for that road
The overtake looked fine to me, the guy in the camera car should pay more attention and use his mirrors
Mumsnet is that way --->
Modern cars are easily capable of reaching that speed without you realising it
Well they are chestnuts because often they are fair comment. Not in this case though.
Countdown said:
I can understand why they might not have pulled you over (better things to do) but why do you think they would give you a "thumbs up" sign? Were you doing them a favour (by getting out of the way)? or do they just generally appreciate people doing 100mph in a 30 zone?
Well, despite our last interaction was you calling me "thick" CD I usually enjoy your posts so I'm happy to elucidate!Coming into Billericay from Shenfield there is a small roundabout which bookends Billericay High Street, it's not a mini-roundabout, you can't just cut across it.
It's two lanes onto the roundabout and I was at the front waiting to go right, it was about 11am on a Saturday and the traffic from the high street was backed up across the roundabout so neither me or the guy next to me - who was trying to go left up the High Street - could move.
I heard the blip of a siren and right behind me was a police car with two young coppers, the bloke to my left tried to sort of edge over a bit and I tried creeping forward but there just wasn't any room, cars were also pulled up behind the police car so it was gridlock.
What struck me immediately was the animation of the young copper in the passenger seat, he looked absolutely distraught, holding his head in his hands then banging the dash, waving his hands about in a pleading motion and just looking extremely distressed.
I've no idea what the call was but he was completely beside himself with the frustration of the situation.
This really affected me and I was desperate to get out of their way but had nowhere to go. The siren came on again and I started gesturing at the car on the roundabout to try to back up a bit but they didn't have enough room either. As happens in these situations it seemed to go on for ever but was probably only a minute, I was cringing with the hopelessness of it all.
Finally a gap big enough for me to squeeze through opened up and I shot through. You can't go across the roundabout because its two oncoming lanes so I took the right. When I looked in the mirror they were right there, inches behind me with the guy still looking desperate.
This is a 30 limit road and the oncoming lane was backed up with cars queuing to get into the roundabout, while it wasn't packed there were people on the pavement and there wasn't anywhere for me to pull over. I pretty much ran out of ideas and just floored it.
I was already over the limit and it was a Lambo sitting exactly in sweetspot rev-wise so I flew up the road. I knew the were places further up I could get over so just kept my foot down through the next gear. When I looked at the speedo it was climbing quickly passed 90 and in the mirror they had dropped back a bit, although still flat out I think.
I braked hard and got over onto the pavement, getting lucky because I cut in at a driveway and the curb was dropped where I went onto it, still much too fast but it was quiet further down and there were no pedestrians.
They went past me like a bat out of hell and the passenger stuck his thumb up out of the window.
Going by the speedo when I looked down I would say I definitely topped out over a hundred.
Ashamed to say I'd actually gone into panic mode a bit and just kept my foot down, probably a decent bit of driver training would have given me other options.
Maybe a colleague being attacked to make them so desperate? Never did find out.
Edited by br d on Thursday 8th October 13:44
br d said:
Breadvan72 said:
br d said:
I briefly hit a ton in a 30 limit with the police behind me once, copper gave me a thumbs up, true story guv and all that.
"Pulled me over. Turned out he was a biker too. Loved the Ninja. Chatted bikes. No ticket. Top lad." I did relay the story here a few years ago when it happened because I thought it might be of interest to people on a motoring forum but your clever riposte is far more interesting.
Breadvan72 said:
br d said:
Breadvan72 said:
br d said:
I briefly hit a ton in a 30 limit with the police behind me once, copper gave me a thumbs up, true story guv and all that.
"Pulled me over. Turned out he was a biker too. Loved the Ninja. Chatted bikes. No ticket. Top lad." I did relay the story here a few years ago when it happened because I thought it might be of interest to people on a motoring forum but your clever riposte is far more interesting.
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