been speeding in Wiltshire ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4299113.stm

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Bear says...

You do know why they have such a big budget, don't you?

 

Ah, but they've got those nasty hippy traveller types to worry about,
invading Stonehenge and Avebury.

 

Verdigris says...

I wouldn't call Beelzebub a hippy, well not to her face anyway.

 

I would say that she is pleasantly slim in that area.

 

Don't see many JCBs about on a Sunday afternoon round here.

<makes note in I-Spy book>

 

Bear says...

So did I. I spent a year as a resident of that fine town known as
Trowbridge.

 

Beelzebub says...

Have you got a laptop in the kitchen now?

 

Been done for speeding in Wilts. Only other vehicle on the road (well
almost) was the unmarked bloody skoda. Eventually flashed me over, carrying
new soft luggage I was torn between "I'm being nicked for speeding" and "my
luggage is falling off" and pulled over immediately into the 3' shoulder.
He pulled up alongside and yelled and pointed to a layby up ahead. When we
both got there he screamed and yelled and said I was speeding (only got me
at 85 BTW) and was stupid for where I pulled over, he spat and swore a lot.
Then said my riding was actually fine, then gave me three points.

All in all - they're fucking shit.

 

And a slap for post editing, I wouldn't wonder.

 

and I spent five years in Westbury.

 

One Solstice weekend, when we thought the police's attention would be
elsewhere, five of us towing bangers to a meeting at Cheddar were pulled
over (we took up the layby and most of the road).

It was one of my oddest encounters - I've had a few - with the dibbles.

One had decided because my Triumph 2500 (racecar) didn't have any
registration plates (which I didn't know) and I'd deliberately obscured
the VIN plate by welding the doors shut it must be stolen.

Another had decided that it was illegal to have a car trailer wider than
a car (but it's a car trailer its what they do). One of us was to be
reported for having no dash repeater light/buzzer for the trailer.

To cap it all my odd cop insisted that I should produce the logbook, MOT
and insurance for the Triumph but not for the borrowed Mk1 Granada towcar
which had no tax MOT and I wasn't insured for.

I'd normally said they were being funny but there wasn't the slightest
shred of humour and all appeared keen to re-run battle of the beanfield.
Right here, right now.

 

Bear wrote:

They didn't, until a councillor moved there. The double yellows &
resident Wednesday night traffic warden appeared shortly after - funny
that.

 

Well, I went 4 or 5 times last year and only had plod there once. I can't
recall who else was there that day, but I do recall said plod having some
issues with his Jam sandwich requiring the bonnet to be lifted and work
undertaken - much to the amusement of the bikers gathered by the pub.

But I didn't see an excessive police presence, nor the helicopter(at
Avebury[1]) last year. As you say though, on the whole the whole meet is
pretty laid back, but then so was Sarratt (though the roads weren't the
same).

I shall be attending this summer as it's a lovely 45-odd mile Wednesday
evening summer ride with several 'scenic' route options should I not fancy
the A4.

[1] I have however seen it elsewhere on the road out of Devises where the
bugger was hiding his yellow helicopter against the yellow rape seed
backdrop)

 

Preston Kemp wrote

World don't change much do it?

I have told this tale before:

40 years ago, when I was 11 and three quarters I got flattened by a cage
while crossing the A2 at Falconwood while on my way to catch a bus to
school.

My Father, a local councillor of some years standing, had been
campaigning for a pedestrian crossing bridge at the very spot of my
accident since first being elected. The very next Highways Committee
meeting after I got knocked down they found the money from somewhere and
built the bridge. An odd coincidence some might say. My Mother would
disagree with them and offer that, "It was only when it was brought home
to the penny pinching head nodding establishment Tory cunts by one of
Them being involved that they finally got their noses out of the
junketing trough and did something about it." and "If I ever catch you
using that fucking bridge and not showing solidarity with your comrades
elsewhere who haven't got bridges I'll send you to your Grandmothers for
the weekend."

5 years later they knocked it down when they made the road three lanes
in each direction but it was handy while it lasted.

 

More than likely not considering I made a point of sticking < 70mph for the
very reasons you've mentioned.

 

Bear wrote

You think that was good, you should have seen the huge great fucking
gaps there was between them.

 

*waves*

I took a photo of broken down plod to keep me amused on those long
winter nights.

There were other plod around that night, just not at the pub. There was
one with a hairdryer waiting on the road to Swindon, & most probably
one at the entrance to the Ridgeway on the Marlborough road.

 

I thought it was you, but I couldn't recall absolutely.

I tended to keep my speeding for the empty bits of the A34

The A4 that I did/do use I tend to stick to 70'ish - it's boring yes, but
highly unlikely to have anyone yellow leaping out in front of me.

 

I made a similar point; averaged 60 mph between Brighton and Avebury and
avoided plod by keeping to the back roads.