Speeding Bikes in a 30

[ShivP]

Put a stinger in the road

 

[snowdog]

Apparently (according to some of the responses to this) it's fun to break the law and endanger other people, with that in mind, perhaps you should stretch a length of cheesewire across the road, you know, just for a bit of fun like.

Lets limit all moving vehicles to 10 mph instead, muuch safer !!! rolleyes

 

[uksoldierboy]

I stick to the limits when going through towns/villages, but of course just like car drivers, there's always going to be some muppets that don't.

As for the loudness, i'm afraid that's something you can't fix really, minus the police pulling every biker over and checking, even then you'd have to do the cars too.
For a biker like myself i have a loud system, it's a safety feature and saved my bacon a few times.

Of course i can understand it being an issue for you though, i'd grin an bare the sound, but by all means report vehicles (not just bikes) that speed.

 

[Yaayuh!]

I think regardless of bike or car, it is just common sense to ride/drive carefully around a 30mph road.

Anything after 7am is fair game for noise though, you can use your car horn after 7am after all.

Sure it can be antisocial, and if it is very early in the morning and I'm driving I try to keep the revs low and not be too obnoxious.

Quite right.

 

[Ryan-3]

Buy a mini and have some fun!!!!!!

Fixed.

Cars, Vans and Bikes all equally do this. I often get tailgated - at the full Audi 3mm distance - driving at 20 in the housing estate (kids playing, people on/off drives, parking, etc. etc.), yet would get held up by these people when on an NSL road or dual carriageway.

 

[Teuton]

They are in Woodseaves on the A519, three cameras and the problem was the lorries apparently speeding through there.

Ah right. Funnily enough I went through Woodseaves recently on a trip to OcUK!

 

[ttaskmaster]

Most people cannot tell a speeding bike just from watching it go past.
A number of times police have taken some complaining residents outside and had a bike ride past them a few times, while the residents guess which passes were faster.
The bike actually rides past at dead-on 30mph every time, just in different gears, yet the residents always *insisted* the lower gear passes (ie the noisier ones) were at 40, 50 and even 60mph.

By contrast, my current bike is quiet enough that my neighbours (apparently) don't even hear me come home late at night, in a near-silent rural area.

As for speeding - No, the law does not apply to us any more than it applies to the BMW driver invariably up my backside trying to do 50 in a 30...!

 

[Django x2]

Roll a pram out in front of the bikes full of baked beans. Those powerrangers won't know it's full of baked beans and will hit it thinking they've killed a child. Queue many posts on OcUK about child killing.

 

[Nasher]

We had a guy doing this for ages. Theres a 30 road through the village and a 60 going out the village and all the way round the surrounding fields, he made so much noise doing his laps that you could hear him all the way round. It was always very late at night (10-12pm)

One time I watched out for him and it was actually a guy on what looked like a snowmobile

 

[wazza300]

To all the complainers buy some earplugs and wind your neck and nose in