Bikers targetted for speeding

Scanned angrily from today's local rag.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.peters3/stuff/bikers_targetted.jpg

Image is about 4.5Mb so you can read the text very clearly.

Discuss.

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Bastards eh?

Oh, what IS the bug type thing on the bottom right hand side of the scan?


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Is it inaccurate? Are bikes doing 139 mph in Northamptonshire? Are
bikes "sexier" news than company cars? Are you surprised?

The sign of a truly parochial paper... it doesn't give the dialling code.

 

Lucretia

"It emerged two years ago that, as motorbikes do not have registration
plates on the front for safety reasons, the speeding riders were not
being detected by front-facing cameras."

It emerged? The mind boggles.


But I am wondering, is the braking distance for 140mph around 400m?
I wouldn't have thought so, but don't now really.


I like the picture with the 'fast' bike on it where they had to
take such a long exposure that the background went out of focus too.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Pete M said:

I was wondering about that. It looked like a lump of marmalade to me.

 

Nice ear wax.

 

I really don't think it's that far. That's probably the distance in
the back of the Highway Code for a 1973 Morris Minor.

I'm pretty sure the GSXR will do it in around 100 if my tests on the
C^H^H^H^a bypass are anything to go by. There's a sign post about
that distance from a roundabout and I could always stop from something
like those speeds before the roundabout after braking at the sign.

 

*ding*

 

What's the problem? Bikes do speed. Bikes do not get caught by front facing
cameras.
Some people who ride bikes crash them and die - a lot more then people who
crash cars.

I don't think it's actually a particularly terrible article - it's saying
"we've identified a group of persistent offenders, we are acting on this"

Would you bleat about it if the same article was about souped-up Novas?

 

Scanned angrily from today's local rag.

I noticed the 2nd last paragraph that they are using "Specially designed
machines" to investigate the speed of motorcycle speeds. Wonder what type
they are then?
Only stuff I can see after Googling was a double loop detector unit where
the system uses to loops in the ground 16ft apart to determine the speed,
and these are only usable to speeds of up to 127 mph. A Merkin piece of kit
too.
So is it a weight measurement then speed detection system or something even
more cunning like one of the local neighbourhood watch scheme curtain
twitchers recording that a bike is approaching so starts the detector?

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130kB for the bandwidth-impared.

http://www.hextent.co.uk/bikers_targetted.jpg

 

or the url
http://www.northamptontoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=255&ArticleID=742249

I ike the caption "Some riders are too fast for speed cameras". Didn't
Top Gear do a test a few years back and found that speeds in excess of
170 (iirc) couldn't be registered?

Nice to see them giving targets for the different roads.
Can't crack the 139 but I'll give some of the other ones a go ;o)

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Slider wrote

Thank you that man.

 

*cough*

"thinking distance"

*cough*

 

Game fucking on, Stritch.

Sunday morning, early?

 

Is it **** that far - A ZX12R will stop fairly easily from 160mph to
0mph in 1/6 mile, as both myself and P. Gower discovered at his wheelie
school

Fucking people in authority should be put up against a wall and shot for
lying to the public. ****

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In Pip triped:

What is this "thinking" thing? I thought all traces of original thought,
initiative, creativity, etc. were banned by the nanny state.

 

I think I preferred Mao's idea of agricultural re-education school.

 

Ah, good point. I suppose a planned brake from a certain point is
always going to be faster than an unplanned one.

But still, I'm sure the numbers are based around vehicles that are
heavy/have shite brakes rather than vehicles that weigh bugger all and
have some of the best brakes around[1].




[1] Is it just me or do other people love the whining noise that 6 pot
Tokicos make when braking hard?

 

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Last convertible was 1968, Saloon 1969, Traveller 1971 some vans were
still being made, fulfilling orders, in 1972.

Maybe for a 1973 Morris Marina (the Minor's replacement)
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