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Forum: General Chat Topic: Fury at 'Joke fine' for killer driver |
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 15:40
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| Very tragic events I think we can all agree but why must the media always latch on the grieving relatives and never on the driver. I think it is clear that the driver is at fault but so is the pedestrian for failing to take due care and attention. In recent months I have started to really object to ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: A3 speed camera - Flashed at 51mph in a 50mph |
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 14:32
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Replies: 13
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| Thanks Guys, The Gatso is the rear facing version covering 3 lanes, on approach its down hill and hidden by the corner. I'm pretty sure I was the only one on the lines at the time of the double flash, heaven knows what was going on on the opposite side of the road but I doubt that anything that sid... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed cameras on very tall poles |
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 11:12
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Replies: 10
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| That is the placement of speed cameras on very tall poles (about the height of the top of a first floor window) I can see why there are doing this as the first one I have seen was beside the Cambridge estate in Kingston upon Thames some where no normal camera would last more than a weekend. I know ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed cameras on very tall poles |
| biggerjohn |
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 10:56
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Replies: 10
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| I do not know if this has been covered here before but I thought I would mention a worrying new approach I have seen the scammers take. That is the placement of speed cameras on very tall poles (about the height of the top of a first floor window) I can see why there are doing this as the first one ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: A question for the bikers |
| biggerjohn |
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:28
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Replies: 25
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| I ride to work every day but I only look at the Speedo 9 times in a 15 mile journey. That’s once for every camera I pass. That not to say I don’t know what speed I am doing as I have a bike I am very familiar with and a route I know well I recon I could judge my speed reasonable accurately without e... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Unpredictable trucks... |
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 16:07
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Replies: 18
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| i will put my hands up to similiar behaviour. i normally flash vans in especially with trailers but i dont bother with cars. for me personally, its about mutual respect between vocational drivers. the average car driver is a divvy though (no disrespect to anyone here) so why bother flashing them in... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Music when Driving |
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 16:56
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Replies: 39
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Sixy_the_red wrote: I don't bother even trying to listen to music on the bike - the wind noise through the open face would drown out most things! 
Sony link
Not only allow you to hear music but act as very good earplugs at all but Motorway speeds |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Sat Navs are illegal in the Irish Republic |
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 16:52
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| With lots of family in Ireland I visit regularly and must honestly say the guarda are a joke. Even when it comes drink driving there was a call by local officers in Kerry to allow resident to drink and drive home. It just boggles the mind. Ireland is a country with a shocking road safety record with... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Music when Driving |
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 16:37
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Replies: 39
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| I am a very calm and composed car/van/lorry driver and will listen mostly to Classic FM talk radio of some description all depending on the noise levels in the vehicle I am driving. Now on the bike is a slightly different mater. On the bike I fall into one of two mindsets The hyper attentive paranoi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: why motor cycles |
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 14:53
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Replies: 55
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jamie_duff wrote: the sensible majority wrote: no only speeder as they are designed for, and according to the recently £1000000 camers they do a good job of it well done Captin Gatso, helping kep the roads safe against the morons who "know better". I'd love to meet you in person. I already know what you'd be like.
my betting is 12 years old |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Bikers |
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 14:24
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Replies: 85
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| Mullet. My comment about your judgement of distance was not intented as a dig. Nor was it intended to be 'throw away'. It was a serious but friendly question. Jamie's comments about what you feel is safe from inside your car and what the biker feels is safe are valid. I can happily get through a sp... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Bikers |
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 14:18
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| I would also point out even if you would drive at a safe and appropriate speed for the condition all it takes is one car out off all the cars in front of you to drive slower and all are forced to drive slower. Bikes on the other hand are more able to over take such obstacles and do so. So now you an... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: £600 fine for dodging £3,000 car insurance |
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 13:52
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| Or on the other had we could look at why by law we have to have a product supplied by a commercial organisation that’s sole purpose in life is to make money for its shareholders. Its not like I have to have an ipod to walk down the road but I do need insurance to drive. No what is needed is a real c... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Bikers |
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 13:25
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| I need my car for work and work rather it wasn't involved in an accident with a hellsgrandad or otherwise. Doesn't matter if it's not my fault, that's not much consolation really is it especially if the rider is hurt - even as a result of their own stupidity. So drive as you would if you being 'tai... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Seat Belt use is declining? |
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 13:54
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Replies: 48
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| I just thought I would pipe in with a few of my own observations. I would have to say from my casual observations of commuting through London on a daily base at least 1/3 of people are not using seatbelts. But what I find oddest of all is young mothers with there huge 4x4s ether not wearing a seatbe... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed Cameras - Siting Rules |
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:25
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| I normally think of myself as a good law abiding citizen I don’t speed in built up arias if any thing I go slower that the posted limit due to safety issues more often that I go over the limit on open roads with good conditions. But the more I read about these “rules” the more I am considering one o... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Sat Nav display distraction |
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:44
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Replies: 216
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| Friday 3 Feb, southbound M1 near Leicester. "People carrier" with 2 small kids on board; one in a back seat but not in a child seat, the other aged I estimate <6 years in the front seat with a seatbelt diagonal strap across their throat. Satnav display stuck with a suction cup slap in front of the ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Sharp rise in CO2 levels recorded |
| biggerjohn |
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 18:06
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Replies: 44
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| We live in a world shaped by the changes in climate from the warm and temperate times of the dinosaurs through long cold ice ages and back again countless times. The only constant is change. Is mankind affecting the climate? Probably but in a tiny and almost immeasurable way alongside that of natura... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: "Craters Worth Keeping!" - Ye Gods! |
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 17:18
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Replies: 26
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You have my deepest sympathy for your loss “Callums Mum”
I have signed the petition and will ask my fiends and family to do that same. |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Partnership reply on a motorcycle forum....! |
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 14:11
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Replies: 18
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| Nothing like an angry local to act in a calm , rational manner ... :roll: http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3750771 Two thoughts First the cars and bikes passing her home of no danger to her or any other pedestrian until you jump out in front of one travelling in a legal and safe manor. So i... |
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