7 day wait

I must drive a car with a fucking amazingly accurate speedo then, coz every
one of the "Speed notification" sensors that show you how fast you're going,
are within a single MPH when I activate them and compare. At 30mph, they're
usually the same. Anyway, a NIP will either come or not and we'll either
know about it or not.

Either way, I'm just glad it wasn't my number that got flashed at an
indicated 38mph.

 

My BMW's speedo is absolutely bang on with my satnav and the flashing
warning signs in villages. That makes my Fiesta van's speedo about 5%
out at the satnav's recorded 100mph as it's reading 105.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Total **** - corrosive and his analysis is rarely incisive - or fucking
accurate. I was on an R5 political panel with him (for three bloody
hours).


and Mark Kermode's film review.

Genius.

 

I thought it pretty interesting - less about the objects more about the
politics of the gae (although I'm only up to 50 so far)

 

Actually, it had very little coverage about olde worlde homoes. Bit of
Greek and that was it.

Hullo clouds, hullo sky.

 

I can play DVDs on the satnav screen on my VW. Not tried it while
driving, mind.

 

dunno about the ones in the UK, but they're very common, and becoming
ever more so, in French villages. Without exception, they're also set
to over-read, and they generally just about match my speedo. One or
two of them are even higher than that.

 

In my experience car speedometers tend to be much more accurate than those
on bikes. My previous BMW 3 series, my curent SAAB and Helen's Citroen C3
are all accurate within 1% or so up to 90 mph. On the other hand, my
V-Strom reads about 10% over the sat-nav at those speeds and the ST3 is
also about 10% optimistic.

 

It's pretty common for the discrepancy to get bigger the faster you go.

 

Same here. You can't go anywhere without some fucking electronic sign
telling you you're going too fast.

My car seems a lot closer to them than the bike is. I often think it must be
a real **** behind me only doing 27mph when I'm on the bike, but it's
invariably not, it's just *this* **** reading 30 on the speedo.

 

No, I think it's just that the bike doesn't present a large
enough/right shape target for them. It's very rare for the flashing
signs round here to give me a reading within 5mph of my actual speed,
and they generally give several different numbers as I approach. The
best I've managed was one that read 4...6...8...12 as I passed it as
slightly above the 30mph limit.

David

 

They definitely over-read. The one in Holyport the other day displayed
46 when I went past.