Speeding in RP

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  • W12_Lad
    W12_Lad Posts: 184
    TGOTB wrote:
    W12 lad wrote:
    TGOTB wrote:
    Aside from the technicalities of whether the law actually applies - If there's a 20mph limit for motor vehicles, doesn't common sense suggest that it's not a bad idea to adhere to the same limit on a bicycle? I'm thinking of the Brighton example here; even if they bring in a city-wide 20mph speed limit that doesn't extend to bicycles, what's the sensible justification for continuing to hoon around at 25mph?

    You seriously think that 2 tonnes of metal traveling at 20mph is somehow comparable to 80/100Kg traveling at the same speed :shock:
    No, but if all the other traffic is doing 20mph (and assuming you're capable of riding faster than that) you can either:
    1. Ride at the same speed and fit in with the traffic (as something like a motorbike would be expected to do)
    2. Ride faster than 20mph, overtaking motor vehicles, giving drivers an excuse to wheel out the "lycra lout" stereotype, and then justify it with what many of those drivers will regard as being a legal loophole.

    Both of these activities may technically be legal; both of them may even be safe, but I'm struggling to see a sensible justification for doing the second...

    I take your comments on board but I will treat it no different than I do now.
    If I come up to slower moving traffic I will overtake only if it's safe to do so being courteous and aware of other road users.
    I don't think it matters that the traffic (be it one car or many) is slower moving because of the speed limit or any other reason.
    It has nothing to do with a legal loophole, it's what I deem to be safe in any given situation.
    It just so happens that in this situation, I wouldn't be breaking the law.
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  • hamish_mctavish
    hamish_mctavish Posts: 142
    W12 lad wrote:
    it's what I deem to be safe in any given situation.
    The defence of the speeding driver...
  • shmooster
    shmooster Posts: 335
    Ian.B wrote:
    Not sure why it went to court though, rather than just a ticket on the spot. Maybe above a certain speed they'll take it to court.

    Setting an example I expect, there's been quite a lot of publicity for it which means more people are likely to stick to the limit, or at the very least not overtake on the descent.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,800
    Read something about it today. He claims there were no cars being overtaken and being new to the area he didn't know the score in the park or that they have speed traps. Also he has had to quit London Dynamo even though he wasn't one on the date of the offence.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Read something about it today. He claims there were no cars being overtaken and being new to the area he didn't know the score in the park or that they have speed traps. Also he has had to quit London Dynamo even though he wasn't one on the date of the offence.

    One assumes that was for going the wrong way...
  • Walls82
    Walls82 Posts: 126
    How did that article make the front page!!

    I'm awaiting the "Ban cars in Richmond park!" front page after every single car that ever drove though Richmond park is caught doing 25-30 miles an hour.

    R&TT isn't known for its journalistic skills I seem to recall them bringing up a dead mans criminal conviction from ten years previous which had no bearing to the event it was reporting on in order to spice an article up.

    Cyclists are hated and disrespected enough in this country without the papers trying to stir things up over isolated incidents.

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