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10-06-14, 08:47 AM | #21 |
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If you need your car for work and ride purely for fun and don't have the self discipline to ride within the speed limits I think you've answered your own question - track bike.
In 25 years of driving and 7 years of having a bike licence I've never picked up any points. I don't by any means drive or ride like a granny. I have to be careful in my car as I drive it like a go kart on country lanes despite it being a 3 litre 7 series but it'll cruise at 130mph on the motorway and feel like it's doing only 50. I have to set the cruise control at 78mph or I'd get done. Self control has to override the urge for speed. Maybe the answer on the roads is to ride more with others, when you are in a group it's more about the social side, yes you can blat along straight roads but it's more fun to get out with a few others and find the twisties. Then it's less about reaching top speed, more about doing those corners better rather than necessarily faster.
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10-06-14, 10:18 AM | #22 |
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If you are still keen to ride on the highway, join IAM. Or ROSPA.
They do social rides, they don't hang around but keep the pace appropriate. No one's saying that they are always inside the posted limits. Just there are less risky places for your licence.
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Even at a grand a time, that would clear the National Debt within a couple of years, at 4 grand even sooner. There have been 3 deaths already this year where extreme drunkenness has resulted in young people drowning in the Ouse.
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Its just a money making idea, there's too few police to enforce most of what they're suggesting, except for the mobile speed camera's.
What I'd like to see is the instant ban & £5000 fine for texting at the wheel, was there any mention of this? I recently read that texting at the wheel causes more accidents than drunk drivers
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10-06-14, 11:57 AM | #25 |
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I've done more thousands of miles in North/Mid Wales than I'd care to admit over the last 6½ years, and I've not ever had any problems or been stopped, not even for a safety chat. It's true there's a time and a place for riding spiritedly, but this certainly doesn't mean restricting yourself to the smaller roads!
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It's an increase to the MAXIMUM fine, and that's the one you could get if you have to go to court for it. |
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Its still the ability to raise more cash, even though how often do magistrates impose the MAXIMUM fine after the defendant has pleaded how poor he is, after trying to support his wife and 15 kids, whilst running his Bentley
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