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howardr 12-01-05 10:20 AM

Don't you just love it when (2) ...
 
You've slowed down to 30 as you go through the speed camera on the way to work and some tw@ on a scooter comes by at 45 mph and sets it off!

You're nicked mate!

Fine for scooter rider - £60
Me laughing my head off at 31 mph - PRICELESS

(imagine how suprised the 'processor' of that photo is going to be when he sees the 150 mph Triumph doing 30 and some twerp on a 60 mph scooter doing 40-odd)

wyrdness 12-01-05 10:26 AM

Assuming that there was film in the camera, of course. In case anyone was wondering, this is why they have those white markings on the road. The marks are at a fixed distance apart (like a giant ruler). This means that they can manually calculate your speed from the two photos. It's very useful in case the camera is faulty and goes off when it shouldn't - like the one on the North Circular, just north of Chiswick Roundabout.

Mr Toad 12-01-05 10:35 AM

You sure you were doing 30 :?:

I believe Rictus has a speeding ticket issued under similar circumstances, for doing 33 mph past one of these cameras when someone else set it off :cry:

Jelster 12-01-05 10:42 AM

Did he have a UK plate ?? In my experience the ****s that go through them like that usually have European plates and are untraceable in the UK.

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howardr 12-01-05 11:07 AM

Yes I was doing 30 and, yes it was a UK plate - I've never seen a scooter slow down so quickly.

They never seem to slow down for cars, pedestrians, buses etc. I was beginning to wonder if they had any brakes at all!

I'm pretty sure that I'm OK - I was virtually halfway through the markings on the road when I noticed him zoom up the outside lane and then the flashes went off. I know the camera well so I had slowed right down - these damn digital speedos do take their time giving you the true speed though.

Professor 12-01-05 11:47 AM

Re: Don't you just love it when (2) ...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by howardr
You've slowed down to 30 as you go through the speed camera on the way to work and some tw@ on a scooter comes by at 45 mph and sets it off!

Baldyman, Carsick and I were once riding past a camera in 30 mph zone
when a guy on a Kawasaki coming in the OPPOSITE direction set off the
camera by doing a wheelie. Don't think he was in any danger of being
caught.

BaggaZee 12-01-05 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by howardr
- these damn digital speedos do take their time giving you the true speed though.


Really?! :shock: I'd always assumed that they'd react in real time like analogue speedos, otherwise they're useless surely?!?! WTF??? :shock:

Flamin_Squirrel 12-01-05 12:34 PM

Re: Don't you just love it when (2) ...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Professor
Quote:

Originally Posted by howardr
You've slowed down to 30 as you go through the speed camera on the way to work and some tw@ on a scooter comes by at 45 mph and sets it off!

Baldyman, Carsick and I were once riding past a camera in 30 mph zone
when a guy on a Kawasaki coming in the OPPOSITE direction set off the
camera by doing a wheelie. Don't think he was in any danger of being
caught.

Of course if you were doing 32mph you'd have been fined, because clearly you were being more dangerous than the wheelieing kwak rider :roll:

Carsick 12-01-05 12:37 PM

I suspect we were doing 32mph.
I seem to be pretty lucky with cameras, I've had them flash twice as I go past 10mph over and no ticket turned up.

kjames 12-01-05 02:21 PM

i hope it wasn't me :oops:

a40?


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