Speeding Bikes in a 30

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Dis86 said:
Aye, damn do-gooders wanting to live in a nice quiet and safe place. Who do they think they are eh?

Notice you didn't mention the two people killed in the link i posted by a motorcyclist.
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a mere drop in the ocean compared to the deaths caused by cars

maybe if folks opened their ears n eyes more? instead of texting on their mobile phones and such like

as for loud pipes its no worse than loud car stereo systems
 
I live not far from the NW200 and Armoy tracks. So in the summer and on nice days the town and surrounding area can fill up with power rangers who vastly over estimate their abilities at getting the knee down and usually end up in the hedgerows or wedged into the front or side of some poor sods car.

Save it for race week when the road is tracked out, one way and open to the public.
 
wazza300 said:
a mere drop in the ocean compared to the deaths caused by cars

maybe if folks opened their ears n eyes more? instead of texting on their mobile phones and such like

as for loud pipes its no worse than loud car stereo systems
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Oh so they're acceptable losses are they? Cos cars kill more...lol. There are far more cars covering far more miles so of course they kill more. Every loss of life should be prevented though.
And just because one thing is unacceptable doesn't give an excuse for you to do another unacceptable thing.
 
Dis86 said:
Oh so they're acceptable losses are they? Cos cars kill more...lol. There are far more cars covering far more miles so of course they kill more. Every loss of life should be prevented though.
And just because one thing is unacceptable doesn't give an excuse for you to do another unacceptable thing.
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Mumbles something about acceptable risk of dying, not just in traffic but life in general...

Traffic was safe enough decades ago imho, it is getting to the point that too much freedom is taken from everyone to save those few extra.
 
bloodiedathame said:
Sweeping generalisation. The group I used to ride with always adhered to limits (with the exception of NSL). Don't tar everyone with the same brush.

Also, I think you'll find that actually most vehicles tend to speed in 30 limits. I'm sure even you have.
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Of course I have but in a 30 I make a conscious effort to slow down. On the way to work of a morning it's 30 most of the way and its usually fairly steady at 30. Bikers will be coming past all the time weaving between the cars as required. Whilst its a generalisation there's no smoke without fire
 
I get exactly the same in the residential area I live in. There is a long straight road through the middle and bikers absolutely scream down it. Some actually use my estate as a racetrack and the noise is deafening. Its not just bikes though, we get plenty of ricers in their chavved up astras and subarus too. As much as I loath traffic calming and speed cameras, we desperately need some in my neighbourhood :(
 
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I speed in equal amounts in my car as I do my bike.

I don't weave between traffic in 30mph zones though as it's pointless. I just wait until the next set of lights and then go to the front. Always see kids on mopeds overtaking in 30mph zones and then sure enough I see them sat there at the lights, Stupid.

People just notice bikes more as they're able to move through traffic when it's safe to do so - and our pipes are loud as hell making it sounds like we're going fast to the untrained.
 
thecremeegg said:
Bikers always speed in 30s and it ****es me off. They seem to think the law doesn't apply to them :(
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That said a lot of car drivers also drive above the 30mph speed limit, and 20mph speed limits. They are just less obvious as they are less loud and make less of a song and dance about it.
 
Myself and the Mrs were woken at 4am to the sound of some loony just doing laps of the village at silly speeds. I was starting to wish he would wrap the damn thing round a tree.
 
I have a friend back in the lakes that lives on a fairly blind section of a popular bike route, he's collected a few bikes while turning into/out of his drive. Not a lot can be done, apparently you can't really hear them coming and when you can see them it's pretty much a done deal. If you're going to go drive into what you can't see faster than you can stop though...
 
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.
 
Seems to be on the rise here as well, it's not just bikes but terribly loud cars as well that like putting their foot down at inappropriate times i.e around 12am

Bet I could find a few chavs..
 
Often bikes are far more noticeable because they are louder, have after market cans on etc. but I have to say as a biker as well that bikers do generally speed more than the majority of car drivers. By this I mean the speeding is often far in excess of the limit as oppose to 5/10 mph over the limit.

it is far more noticeable at the weekend as the weekend warriors go out and enjoy what good weather we do have. those are often the dangerous ones as well as they generally lack the experience that people who ride bikes every day do.
 
LiE said:
Consistently I see/hear motorbikes hooning it down the road outside my house, it's a 30 and I'm wondering is there anything that I can do? My gut says no, I've lived here a year and I guess it's just something that happens.

A friend lives in a village not far from me and she says motorbikes regularly come speeding through the village at all times. I've found it's mostly on the weekend and in the morning when the weather is nice. It's very loud, and not what you wan to hear at 8.30am when they open up their bike in a residential area.

Last week I was out the front talking to a friend when one guy did a wheelie and sped off down he road at double the speed limit.

Anyway, sorry I'm ranting but it annoys me that it happens so frequently.
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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.
 
Cuchulain said:
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.
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Lol!
 
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