South East Biker Motorcycle Forum

This is I suspect going to be a hot topic however! My rant is, does the national speed limit exist any-more. I ride to work every day along the same route and have done this route for about 3 and a half years. My route used to be about 60% national limit and the rest was 30's for villages but this seems to be changing.

Part of my route is wonky crossroads at Effingham Park which incidentally is now a brand new roundabout (watch out for the drain covers though, see other post) but at the time that they added the roundabout they have also changed the speed limit down from the national is used to be to 40 about a half mile on the 4 roads going into the roundabout.

Are we all morons now and need to be told that you have to slow down for a roundabout??

I am a great believer in the 30 limit in town and villages, being the old fart with 2 kids I think people should be nice and slow where there are kids around as kids do not think!!! I get funny looks sitting on a sports bike doing 30 through villages, holding up the cars behind who would rather speed through them..

However outside of populated areas I know the arguement is that going slower stops crashes but I have to agree to some point that there is only so far you can go, why not just stop road traffic and make everyone use the pathetic public transport system??

Is it just me?? I also suspect that they goal seems to be to make the country a 40 mph limit, but thats another rant :)

RANT OVER Hmmmmmm

I seem to remember hearing that if a problem is reported to the council with the roads then they are legally responsible for any damage to a vehicle as a result if they do not fix it. Similarly surely they are also responsible for any injuries as a result which is more likely with a bike!! Anyone know anymore about this??

Just to confirm my suspicions that they are taking all the fun out of our roads, there are more roads down graded from 50 to 40 .The from Ninefield to Catsfield (thats the B2204)has recently been down graded.

Magnum

I read it in MCN or something similar last week, its not the first time that it has been on the agenda, Germany or France (I cannot remember which) have that law already in place, and a friend of mine who has a bikers hotel in the Hartz Mountains( more on that in a later post) says that the TUV in Germany are hard on bikes when it comes to the annual test and effectively if that nice little 3 into 1 hasn't got a TUV approval it has to be changed for the test, that includes screens etc.

Magnum

This is getting crazy, maybe the time is coming for bikes to rebel - Problem is no one out there is interested in allowing speed limits to be increased!!!!

I have a new site that I am building at the moment and will shortly be doing a review of iPhone aps for bikers as there are some good ones for finding good routes!! Not sure if it allows for speed limits, I suspect not and so app writers out there, here is an idea!!!!

I will now go off and try and find an app that updates on all speed limits. Do the government have to list them online somewhere or should we do a freedom of information request!!

you have never spoken a truer word. I am a similar sinical person and think that all politicians are crooks and sadly if you have money you get what you want, if you do not then you either need a massive objection and the money to back it up or get loads of people to stop the rich people from making more money for a brief time, such as bikes shutting down London!

Couldnt agree more but dont get me started on politicians!!!