Forward facing average speed cameras

I gotta be honest i dont worry too much about them when on my bike, its difficult in traffic to get any real speed up anyway, i do weave in the traffic if i want to make some time up but not too much.
Wouldnt try and filter though in narrow lanes, i aint that brave.

[phi-dan]

Okay, not an average speed camera, but they took the time to trace down this guy http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-...gatso/791.html

Originally Posted by phi-dan

Okay, not an average speed camera, but they took the time to trace down this guy http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-...gatso/791.html

Still cannot see how they could convict where they prove beyond reasonable doubt that it was him, he fessed up im sure.
Complete denial or its just circumstantial surely.
I have waved at the cameras before

Lots of myth about isn't there! Nope, as per RH's post, if they can't read your plate, they don't even record your speed or register the fact your vehicle has passed though. I haven't seen the Cat & Fiddle ones, but the MCN article the day they went in said they were rear facing.

Originally Posted by G

The new Software for average speed cameras can get bike. Like the ones on the cat and fiddle. The cameras look EXACTLY the same.

It's a risky game now, and there's no way to tell the difference.

Software? How does that help when the cameras are pointing the other way?

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Originally Posted by TazDaz

Software? How does that help when the cameras are pointing the other way?

Because all they need to do is turn them around... They can even re position cameras on the opposite side of the carriage way. So you now never know, making it not worth the risk.

You would be very suprised at what theycan do with them. Got them installed on quite a few of my projects at the moment.

Originally Posted by G

Because all they need to do is turn them around... They can even re position cameras on the opposite side of the carriage way. So you now never know, making it not worth the risk.

You would be very suprised at what theycan do with them. Got them installed on quite a few of my projects at the moment.

Not really a software aspect then if they just turn them around!

I thought they could already read fine even if traffic was going away from the camera location, rather than approaching...

I've only ever used them for O-D surveys, and when I say use, I 'supervise' (watch) whilst another company puts them on masts.

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I don't know the ins and out, I just know the people we use now say they can get bikes very easily. They can do literally anything with them now, in any sequence or order.

They have always been 100% honest with me about ways around them right from the start when we first started using them on major road projects when you could just switch lanes to avoid them.

Theres no way to avoid them known at the moment , sometimes they are not always fully installed and just a visual thing on temporary roadworks of short duration as the cost is not worth and they are just as effective anyway.

I wouldn't risk it now and I always used too lol

Thanks for the info guys - ive never taken the chance myself, just observed a few people that did and a few people that didnt, general consensus seems its not really worth the risk if theres even a slim chance you could get done.

M62 has had these on for months now, maybe coming close to a year with the restricted 50mph limit.
As someone abova said, where the lanes narrow for the road works I tend not to filter, but the rest of it is a doddle. Frequently do 70 if traffic allows it and once after the final camera before my turn off I always speed back up there, not to say I wont get caught but as yet I've been lucky. (just try not to take the pi55 boris)