French run report

That doesn't seem to align with the fines imposed. 45EUR and 90EUR being
the two that I know of.

 

Well I dunno where you got these figures, and I wouldn't normally
suggest that a cop knows best, but the last couple of times I've been
done for speeding in France, at less than 25kph over, and outside of
50 zones, I've been fined EU92, the same amount as before the date you
quite.

Actually, thinking about it, one of them was for overtaking[1] and
speeding in a 50 zone, but the other, just last year, was on the
motorway where it had dropped to 90kph before the border post. I was
doing ~110, apparently.

[1] Overtaking in a village is, according to the two bike cops,
illegal. I told them they were talking bollocks, but failed to
convince them that I stayed under the limit as I did so. I probably
was slightly over it, but they couldn't have clocked me. Sadly, one
doesn't seem to have the right to argue, unless one wants to go to
court to do it. And paying eu92 is better than having to take a day
off to do so, given also that I would probably have failed in such an
attempt, and that I'm on a Swiss licence and hence don't have any
points to lose.

 

See my post. I thought it was normally 92, not 90, but YCBR.

 

FFS I thought the Nazis lost the war

 

What a jolly sensible chap you are

 

It must have stopped by the time we went past the affected area but we
were only minutes behind LN and Mike and they hit it.

Maybe you should let her ride and you go bitch?

 

Foreigners don't count discount? Or the prices have changed since 2008.

 

Sadly I don't have a reciprocal arrangement when driving in
Switzerland. Still no points, but more than 20kph (+6 for errors) over
the limit and it has to go to court, who can remove your licence if
they see fit. Only happenned to me once, although I came very close a
month or so ago, after which I realised for the first time that the
national speed limit on single-carriageway roads is 80kph, not 90 as
in all the surrounding countries.

Only taken me 10 years to notice.

 

No - as Tim says, we'd already lunched (paella and a white Burgandy).
We thought we'd take the coast road to Calais for a change, via the
caps, which is why you saw us branching off. The weather, however,
defeated us.

 

<g> When we took the short-cut down the pavement I was quite proud
that everyone else followed...

 

Good job there's no asbo's for it, otherwise everyone'd want one

Paul.

 

I'll vote for the party that makes speed limits "Advisory"

 

Cats can't count
..

 

That would have been a bit of a detour, afgter smelly Boulonge sur merde,
it gets much nicer.

We camped on it last year.

 

You try short-changing her when it's feeding time.

 

Colin Irvine wibbled forthrightly:

You're really Parisian, aren't you?

 

I wasn't. Plus I couldn't employ my usual 'ride faster' gambit as I
was following TBC.

That bike is trying to kill me. It can FRO. I'm presuming it was
something in the fuel line which then cleared but I'd rather it hadn't
happened in lane 3 of the M25.

 

I wish we had been!

 

My brother will be flattered that he made such an impression on you.

As others have said, the weather UK-side was appalling. I have to say
the K was completely unaffected (and therefore I was feeling confident)
through the worst of it.

But, has anyone invented waterproof gloves (marigolds excepted)?

I took a spare pair with me - my summer gloves were completely saturated
so switched to dry and warm pair at Clackett Lane (which were of course
wet and cold by arrival chez moi though heated grips do reduce the
discomfort to mainly wet rather than wet and totally cold).

My boots have been waterproof for 8 years...until Sunday...so it's time
for a new pair methinks.

TOG: thanks again!

 

Odd that. I hadn't noticed until you remarked on it at dinner. I checked
later and my brother hadn't noticed.