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4/12/2007 16:52:27  

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Since: 21/5/2005
Status: offline 		Rather than this be 'negative' area on the site could we also have included roads that we know of that are fast and camera free and FUN...

I have used a emoticon on the head of this post, perhaps the good stuff could have this at its head... I am very negatively disposed to negativity... if you see what I mean?

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5/12/2007 7:01:19  
 

Posts: 94
Since: 20/6/2007
Status: offline 		I foresee lots and lots of posts from people caught breaking the law and complaining about it.

If you insist on speeding then pay up and shuttup. Don't try wriggling your way out of it on a technicality if you know you were doing it.

Personally I think anyone who is caught speeding isn't paying enough attention to the road for the speed they're doing. I've had a clean license for nearly 25 years now and I've been driving very fast cars for nearly all of that.

Flameproof suit on........

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5/12/2007 7:19:38  
 

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Since: 10/5/2005
Status: offline 		V_Bird, your wish has been granted!
5/12/2007 13:53:58  

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Since: 16/1/2007
Status: offline 		ok two for starters
A14 from kettering to M1/6 junction nice sweeping dual carriage way good surface. beware trucks snail racing blocking both lanes for miles if road is at all busy.

A 50 M1 to A500 junction at stoke on trent, again nice wide sweeping dual carriage way - just keep an eye out for mobile cameras and " mr plod" lurking up sliproads. only occasionally thankfully


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5/12/2007 17:39:58  

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Since: 21/5/2005
Status: offline 		Gavin, cheers!

My first contribution... The A30 from Sutton Scotney west for 30+ miles, it is an old roman road and is straight and undulating but if you keep your wits about you it is fabulous!

My second will have its own Thread.

I have found a great road, camera free, cross cambers, no cops [ever] long straights and challenging corners 20 miles of bliss!


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5/12/2007 17:43:57  

Posts: 649
Since: 21/5/2005
Status: offline 		I have an idea!!!

Why don't we each have our own threads... each of us as we find a road put it in our own thread adding to the posts like that without comment from anyone and instead have a general chat about so-and-so's new find, that way as we are all in different areas to some extent we can pick someones thread and have a looksee and find a good road for that area?

I'll post up mine in that fashion from now on and any comment can be in a general discussion thread.

I'll start it and see what you think.

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5/12/2007 21:35:41  

Posts: 777
Since: 20/9/2006
Region: Sheffield
Status: offline 		very good idea V Bird, like it
6/12/2007 14:22:07  

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Since: 31/10/2006
Region: Salisbury
Status: offline 		Ah, the A30 west of Sutton Scotney, never as much fun since the hill-climb out of Stockbridge had the single carriageway extended (albeit past a school entrance ).

Edit: new thread started - need to make the suggestion post a sticky I think????  Otherwise it will soon be lost at the bottom.

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6/12/2007 15:13:15  

Posts: 649
Since: 21/5/2005
Status: offline 		Read your posts matey, yeah there is a road down there acroos from minehead somewhere, I will check out which [ie think hard and try to remember] and add it to mine.

Spain is a fab place for a blast, just can't rememmber the roads names though... I like this part of the site, it shows that enthusiasm for driving is alive and well.

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6/12/2007 17:32:35  

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Since: 14/6/2006
Status: offline 		V_Bird, Denmead to St. Catherines Hill - a firm favorite! absolutely love that road!!
A272 to Cheriton another firm favorite (even though the Brewers at the Pots have moved to Droxford).
8/12/2007 11:48:24  
 

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Since: 14/3/2007
Region: Northants
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ORIGINAL: adrianm

I foresee lots and lots of posts from people caught breaking the law and complaining about it.

If you insist on speeding then pay up and shuttup. Don't try wriggling your way out of it on a technicality if you know you were doing it.

Personally I think anyone who is caught speeding isn't paying enough attention to the road for the speed they're doing. I've had a clean license for nearly 25 years now and I've been driving very fast cars for nearly all of that.

Flameproof suit on........

I think you are talking ****ocks, it's the luck of the draw!!!!
8/12/2007 13:05:56  


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Since: 11/5/2005
Status: offline 		Steady Baz!

Some people seem to have more "luck" than others!...Local knowledge helps and keen eyesight.

I certainly wasn't paying attention for two of my three tickets over 25 years:

1. Arguing with the now ex wife.....didn't see the copper standing on the bend with a gun! 40 in a 30
2. Buggers hid a Gatso behind a traffic sign over the brow of a hump back bridge on a road i used from time to time 40 in 30 again
3. Black Box on the hard shoulder under a bridge with the "safety van" parked up out of sight on the joining slip in the rain. I was in outside lane overtaking trying to catch up time after playing the good samaritan talking with the Mrs.......80 on a derestricted

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8/12/2007 13:45:53  

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Since: 5/6/2007
Status: offline 		Take it you dont agree with adrian M  then Bazza

I dont know how many miles adrian does a year but i do in exess of 50 000 between 3 cars and a van  the majority of which are in the van  plus im self employed which generally means time is money , im not a delivery driver thus when im in the van im not earning so yes i tend to speed occasionally hmmmm    a lot of roads are now camera 'd up and can be sussed by satnav but the mobile units are canny sometimes  and hide a little , which their not allowed to do     so i keep a camera in the van and stop and  and snap them if they snap me   unfairly that is .

I just personally feel that drivers are not  on  an even playing field any more ,  when its well known that  the speed camera thingy has been designed purely as a profit making exercise , and that only 9% of the camera's that have been installed have actually decreased  road accidents   so that speaks for itself why continue to have an operate the remaining 91% if there not doing anything but making revenue for the powers that be ,  so i will continue to wriggle,  twist, turn, writhe in agony, wince and  try my utmost to evade paying the dreaded and having those little asterisks on my licence   Malc is spot on when he says some are luckier than others   but the law of averages pops in there somewhere the  more miles you do  in unfamliar territory the more likely you are to get caught , so up the gatzco a burners i say     sorry adrian  i beg to differ      immensley


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12/12/2007 13:23:21  
 

Posts: 94
Since: 20/6/2007
Status: offline 		Well I do seem to be in a minority of one and different opinions is what makes our world so interesting.

Personally I think shops having CCTV cameras everywhere is bang out of order because its unfair to shoplifters. They used to be able to nick whatever they want and now these shops (like Tescos with their huge profits) think it's perfectly OK to persecute them.

I do less miles than I used to now that I'm retired but I used to drive to and from London every day on the M4/M25 and more recently on the M23/A23. In at 5am and out at 3pm so there was plenty of chance to get caught speeding.

Nowadays I do the run down to Brighton a few times a week. That road is crawling with plain clothes cars (with lots of warning signes) yet I'm regularly passed by people doing 90+. Usually on a stretch of road that often has a mobile camera/laser on it.

I do drive well over the speed limit on quite a few occasions but only in daylight (next to impossible to spot a plain clothes car at night), never ever in a built-up area and only if I know the road.


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9/1/2008 16:53:35  
 

Posts: 112
Since: 23/5/2007
Status: offline 		can I also make a suggestion?

Can we put the county/area within the thread title? would make it handy for searches or when just browsing the title page.

Great idea & already some great reads, can the roads be compiled onto some kind of map for quick reference?

Pocoryans 'down to spain' route got me dreaming, thanks
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