Speed Cameras

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  • CyclingBantam
    CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
    Bhima wrote:
    Nuggs wrote:
    Bhima wrote:
    Can't remember the details of it, but he had to pay about £150. They confiscated his bike until he paid up.
    And I call bullshit. If he was in a car, the fine would only be £60 IIRC. Other points about speeding only applying to motor vehicles and bicycles not being fitted with speedos are equally valid.

    He had to pay more for wasting police time. He didn't pay up immediately, had a massive argument, tried to escape, etc. :roll:

    He did have a speedo though - a Garmin actually. :lol: I'm not defending what he did, it was a tiny residential road with speed bumps. You should know when you're going too fast down one of those.

    I love how the more you get challenged the more ludicrous you make the argument. He tried to escape. Classic.
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    He's a bike messenger - he was trying to get to his destination innit! It's the very nature of the beast.
  • Finbar Saunders
    Finbar Saunders Posts: 299
    So does riding in 39x15 with a cadence of 180 constitute furious peddling?
    No-one wanted to eat Patagonia Toothfish so they renamed it Chilean Sea Bass and now it's in danger of over fishing!
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    BenBlyth wrote:
    Bhima wrote:
    Nuggs wrote:
    Bhima wrote:
    Can't remember the details of it, but he had to pay about £150. They confiscated his bike until he paid up.
    And I call bullshit. If he was in a car, the fine would only be £60 IIRC. Other points about speeding only applying to motor vehicles and bicycles not being fitted with speedos are equally valid.

    He had to pay more for wasting police time. He didn't pay up immediately, had a massive argument, tried to escape, etc. :roll:

    He did have a speedo though - a Garmin actually. :lol: I'm not defending what he did, it was a tiny residential road with speed bumps. You should know when you're going too fast down one of those.

    I love how the more you get challenged the more ludicrous you make the argument. He tried to escape. Classic.



    Bhima vocally prepares his next reply.
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  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    ...okay, has anyone (or their friend) ever been flashed by a speed camera?
    (perhaps, anyone other than Bhima :wink: )
    Cycling weakly
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    skyd0g wrote:
    ...okay, has anyone (or their friend) ever been flashed by a speed camera?

    Yeah, there was one which flashed us in a dark alley one night. Wasn't very pleasant. It got done for indecent exposure thankfully.
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    skyd0g wrote:
    ...okay, has anyone (or their friend) ever been flashed by a speed camera?
    (perhaps, anyone other than Bhima :wink: )
    Apparently if you cover a football in foil and give it a good kick past a speed camera, you can get it to flash.




    Having typed that, it sounds like a far out story reminiscent of other forum members...
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    Nuggs wrote:
    skyd0g wrote:
    ...okay, has anyone (or their friend) ever been flashed by a speed camera?
    (perhaps, anyone other than Bhima :wink: )
    Apparently if you cover a football in foil and give it a good kick past a speed camera, you can get it to flash.




    Having typed that, it sounds like a far out story reminiscent of other forum members...

    ...hmmm, perhaps if you covered your helmet with tin foil...? :D
    ...only that would also mean trying to explain to the nice officer why you looked like a cyberman... :shock:
    Cycling weakly
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    skyd0g wrote:
    Nuggs wrote:
    skyd0g wrote:
    ...okay, has anyone (or their friend) ever been flashed by a speed camera?
    (perhaps, anyone other than Bhima :wink: )
    Apparently if you cover a football in foil and give it a good kick past a speed camera, you can get it to flash.




    Having typed that, it sounds like a far out story reminiscent of other forum members...

    ...hmmm, perhaps if you covered your helmet with tin foil...? :D
    ...only that would also mean trying to explain to the nice officer why you looked like a cyberman... :shock:

    I thought that once when I stopped a guy in a grey Assos gilet.
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Nuggs wrote:
    Apparently if you cover a football in foil and give it a good kick past a speed camera, you can get it to flash.

    ....coming soon, new and exclusive to Sky Sports 12.... :wink:

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • Finbar Saunders
    Finbar Saunders Posts: 299
    DavidBelcher wrote:
    Nuggs wrote:
    Apparently if you cover a football in foil and give it a good kick past a speed camera, you can get it to flash.

    ....coming soon, new and exclusive to Sky Sports 12.... :wink:

    David

    I think they already have that on Fiver. :lol:
    No-one wanted to eat Patagonia Toothfish so they renamed it Chilean Sea Bass and now it's in danger of over fishing!
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Finbar Saunders wrote:
    I think they already have that on Fiver. :lol:

    Along with these sorts of 'heartwarming' documentaries, presumably;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3k7ObWcUP4

    :wink:

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • frazerbrown
    frazerbrown Posts: 64
    I rode a charity cycle event earlier in the year, and we set off the speed camera on the road down into Eastbourne. It only flashed at grouped cyclists, and one guy who's 6foot 5 and built like a brick outhouse!!! :D
    I guess you can't be done for speeding as they won't know who you are.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    frazerbrown wrote:
    I rode a charity cycle event earlier in the year, and we set off the speed camera on the road down into Eastbourne. It only flashed at grouped cyclists, and one guy who's 6foot 5 and built like a brick outhouse!!! :D
    I guess you can't be done for speeding as they won't know who you are.

    We do now. We do now.....

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