Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > speeding naughtiness

[FiscusFish]

There are times when simply being on a bike is going to get you "done", be it 5mph over the limit or 40. If the local police boss has a bee in his bonnet for one reason or another and he decides its open season on bikes then it's easiest and cheapest to just accept it as another form of taxation.....

Got a fixed penalty and 3 points for 44 in a 30. "Hmmm speeding in a 30, I never do that.." 99.9% of people on here (or anywhere) who say that are lying. It's a fact of life, you may not exceed a 30 limit everywhere but you do it more often than you choose to admit. Andyb does it, Rushjob does it, the head of the bleedin' ACPO does it, your gran does it. When was the last time you drove along an open main road with a 30 mph speed limit, no traffic holding you up and exactly 29mph showing on the speedo? It doesn't happen (or so infrequently that the car doing it has a huge queue of vehicles built up behind them)...

And my 44 in a 30.... 300 yards away, with a hand held LIDAR gun (no tripod, no resting it on the car just pointed in my direction) whilst riding in a heavish evening traffic, buses, cars , lorries etc all going the same speed... Only other vehicles being stopped were bikes..

[guest1]

All very good but whats the score with the ten percent error on speedos?
If Ian is gonna get done for speeding then has the copper been validated recently? Can he "guess the speed" to within ten percent?

Best of luck mate and yes I do hope you get off with it.

[badmanners]

a system that has been used in the past on known static positions is for the officer to have 2 prominent landmarks in view, as the vehicle passes one landmark he starts counting, as the vehicle passes a second landmark he stops. Times under a pre equated figure=ok
times over it and you are probably speeding.
not an exact science but it lets him pull ya and can do a character assessment from there. ie: likelihood of person to speed+type of vehicle+time past landmarks=make cheque payable to Chief Constable

www.abd.org.uk

[TORTUGA]

Originally posted by badmanners
a system that has been used in the past on known static positions is for the officer to have 2 prominent landmarks in view, as the vehicle passes one landmark he starts counting, as the vehicle passes a second landmark he stops. Times under a pre equated figure=ok
times over it and you are probably speeding.
not an exact science but it lets him pull ya and can do a character assessment from there. ie: likelihood of person to speed+type of vehicle+time past landmarks=make cheque payable to Chief Constable


The system you describe is called VASCAR. It calculates your average speed over a given distance. Like you say the police will use bridges, shadows or those little white squares painted on the road surface. These are there for that purpose so they can clock you between the 2 points.
www.abd.org.uk