SPOTTER
Member Since: 06 Dec 2006
Location: Adrift........
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for mile upon mile upon a glorious twisting A-Road.
40mph in 60 zones, 40 mph in 50 zones, 40 mph in 30 zones
Why????? Is it the minimum speed their crusie control works at 
and not one of the muppets stuck to the leaders bumper made any effort to get past.....or slow down in the villages. Took ages to get past them all.
 end of an era ....... maybe a Defender when it appears.......
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 5th Aug 2009 12:31 pm |
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ad15
Member Since: 14 Dec 2008
Location: up that tree
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ahhhh, you must be in cornwall then......
wait no, 40mph..... too fast for here,
37 is the top speed here this week one wife.......livid
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| 5th Aug 2009 1:08 pm |
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SPOTTER
Member Since: 06 Dec 2006
Location: Adrift........
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if only I was in Cornwall........ 
one of the perpetrators had very distinctive high visibility markings and blue light bar.....  end of an era ....... maybe a Defender when it appears.......
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| 5th Aug 2009 1:18 pm |
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Martin
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Member Since: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Hook Norton
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This is why in south Warwickshire they have reduced the speed limits on a number of roads from 60 to 50 - the average speed monitored on these roads was 50
In which case, why reduce it? What it now means is that the average speed is 40 
What they've also done is ignored the roads which ARE dangerous and on which there are frequent accidents, but applied it to roads which have a tiny accident rate.
Quite unbelievably, at one of the most dangerous junctions (a crossroads on a hill with blind approaches), there is no reduction in speed limit, but a speed camera has been put up AFTER the junction on the side of the road with the better visibility
Are road safety planners completely inept? 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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| 5th Aug 2009 1:27 pm |
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NHR
Member Since: 13 Dec 2007
Location: Warsaw
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Quote:Are road safety planners completely inept?
By and large yes. Road safety = making life difficult for motorists; not making roads safer.
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| 5th Aug 2009 2:17 pm |
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Disco3newbie
Member Since: 26 Oct 2008
Location: Scottish Borders
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It's the new invisible magnetic 'enviro-tow' method. See it in the Dales all the time but there can be now more than one cars length between them to make it work. And all rear view mirrors are disabled when on enviro-tow! Club RLD spare wheel protection
Club RLD skid plate
Club its all black
Club D3 - it's gone
Club D4 - just arrived and still all black
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| 5th Aug 2009 9:30 pm |
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chicken george
Member Since: 31 Oct 2008
Location: york
Posts: 77
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there will be a tin tent at the front of the queue
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| 5th Aug 2009 11:04 pm |
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NoDo$h
Member Since: 02 May 2006
Location: Finding new and exciting ways to milk badgers.
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I utterly despise those who refuse to overtake, but position their cars in such a way as to make safe, progressive driving impossible. If, by some momentary lapse, they leave a decent gap between them and "group leader", you can bet your last penny they'll accelerate to close the door if you have the audacity to overtake.
They should read Aesop's Fables, particularly the one about the dog in the manger.
And afterwards they should have a read Al's fables, particularly the one about the short chap who goes  ing mental at a set of traffic lights with a hammer and a ing big knife. C s should be kicked to death by kittens wearing slippers. Slowly. I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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| 5th Aug 2009 11:09 pm |
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DG
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Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
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I don't understand why people get aggrieved by a perfectly legitimate overtake TBH  I once witnessed a triple overtaking maneuver in Malta on a wide single carriageway ...nobody batted an eyelid ...no horns ...no problem. 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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| 5th Aug 2009 11:17 pm |
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ad15
Member Since: 14 Dec 2008
Location: up that tree
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to be honest i've given up overtaking in this country,
it's the only country i drive in that when you goto over take the git speeds up......
i drive in at least 215 country's a year and this is the ONLY one where overtaking is likened to a duel to the death,.....
and that includes the greeks.... (no offence) one wife.......livid
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| 6th Aug 2009 12:44 am |
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DiscoDunc
Member Since: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
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Quote:there will be a tin tent at the front of the queue
I do try and overtake "everything" I come up behind thereby putting me at the front of the queue
although the 2 caravans I overtook on an A-Road in Wales a few weeks ago didnt seem to appreciate it (yes, they were doing 40mph ) Duncan
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| 6th Aug 2009 9:11 am |
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discoboy
Member Since: 30 Jan 2009
Location: UK
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I'm not sure why tin tenters always get a hammering when it appears they are holding up traffic. I tow a 1600Kg van with my D3, the D3 could pull this at 100mph and accelerate fairly normally if needed to. Quite often I am held up by cars or van/lorries/trucks on A roads, driving below the speed limit. The only chance of an overtake with a caravan is along long clear stretches and the D3 makes this easy, however most of the time, slow traffic will hold me up until it disappears and I can drive at the speed limit again. By this time frustrated traffic behind may overtake me and see that there is nothing in front of me and assume it is me that has been holding the traffic up when reality is different.
I suspect those tintenters that do hold traffic at 40mph would be driving at 40mph without the van in tow.
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| 6th Aug 2009 11:48 am |
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NHR
Member Since: 13 Dec 2007
Location: Warsaw
Posts: 923
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ad15 wrote:and this is the ONLY one where overtaking is likened to a duel to the death,.....
and that includes the greeks.... (no offence)
You should try overtaking here more often 
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| 6th Aug 2009 12:55 pm |
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nobbyclark
Member Since: 03 May 2005
Location: Perth, Scotland
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I'm in Warsaw this week - 40mph/70kmh appears to be the minimum just to leave the hotel forecourt. No longer a D3 owner but still subscribed to multiple threads!
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| 14th Aug 2009 2:57 pm |
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Dave T
Member Since: 03 Jul 2009
Location: Glasgow
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We were in Florida a few weeks back, the speed limit appears to be the minimum speed, evem for huge great artics.
When I did keep to the speed limit, everything was going by me and a sherriff was flashing at me to get out of the way I was going so slow, 60 in a 60 limit  Seems a great place to me
It is just this country where even doing the speed limit is the devils own work!
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| 14th Aug 2009 3:12 pm |
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