Depends on the bike but I wouldn't fancy hanging on with one hand hand leaning right back whilst breaking the speed limit anyway. Your foot on the other hand...
Goodbye to one of the best drives in Cheshire (A537 Cat & Fiddle)
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Depends on the bike but I wouldn't fancy hanging on with one hand hand leaning right back whilst breaking the speed limit anyway. Your foot on the other hand...
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Put speed calming measures on the worst corners/areas. The people who speed can have their own cars wrecked and not someone elses.
Which one? The road crosses between Cheshire East and Derbyshire. I'd guess at Cheshire East, as that's where the 50 limit starts...
Could just as easily be Derbyshire, there's "Speed limit enforced by aircraft" signs up near me
Could just as easily be Derbyshire, there's "Speed limit enforced by aircraft" signs up near me
They make me chuckle every time I pass them.
I also like the irony of resurfacing crumbling NSL roads, then dropping the speed limit at the same time. It's almost as if they believe that a poor surface doesn't contribute to the accident rate!
Damn council co-operation...
Could just as easily be Derbyshire, there's "Speed limit enforced by aircraft" signs up near me
Has anyone ever actually been prosecuted with evidence collected from an aircraft?
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a fantastic road and in my opinion given it's notoriety as a biker run, i'm surprised it lasted so long without one. a lot of accidents and given the terrain when you crash if you leave the road you WILL be seriously injured. A shame but not unexpected. More expected than the roads they put cameras on which suffer 1 fatality a year!
But this isn't just "a" camera, its an entire two-way specs system.
I don't know of another single carriageway, cross-country, A-road that has specs. It's the beginning of the end.
The A52 between grantham and nottingham does, and has had for years...
I think its the A616 that does too, if you come off the M1 and head cross country to Manchester past Corus steel there are several miles of Specs. Admittedly some sections have a crawler lane, but its mostly all single carriageway.
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The cameras will only catch the truly stupid.
Do a couple of laps, learn where the cameras are, then sit at 30-40mph on the straights, which should royally p off the norms, then hit the corners at the speed you want, slow back down to 30-40mph on the next straight, job done.
The best corners on the C&F need BIG balls to do more than 50-60mph through anyway.
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Do a couple of laps, learn where the cameras are, then sit at 30-40mph on the straights, which should royally p off the norms, then hit the corners at the speed you want, slow back down to 30-40mph on the next straight, job done.
The best corners on the C&F need BIG balls to do more than 50-60mph through anyway.
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On a bike, or in the wet, yes. In a decent handling car, no.
There are only a handful that require you to slow to 35-40.
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True, but then I've got a pair of contact patches the size of credit cards
So you should be able to get round the corners quicker, takes a lot less skill in a car though True, but then I've got a pair of contact patches the size of credit cards
Only to keep up with a bike pushing the limits through the bends... Pushing the limits of the car takes more skill however
the A158 to skegness has them too. Again, has done for years.