Speeding - Page 28

3wide · 12-06-07, 09:37

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Originally Posted by PrinzII

Most of my hijinx have been on I-80 between I-57 and Joliet.

i live about 20miles north of I-80, it's a very fast pased highway, great for making good time. i had a girlfriend who used to live in the suburbs of chicago and she told me about an interstate that led you out of chicago north. apparently if you weren't doing 90 you where in the way, she said you'd see vipers, corvettes, all sorts of go fast cars. i don't remember,i think is was 94??

itb76 · 12-06-07, 09:51

I94 goes from Chicago north to Milwaukee. Some people drive fast, but 90 is kind of an exception, unless maybe I'm going that way. Everyone slows WAY down when they get to Wisconsin, it's a police state like Ohio!

And apparently the UK too! Though I was talking to a guy from England who liked his new Volvo diesel because it drive so well at 130 mph. I said in WI you'd get thrown in jail for that, he said at night (like 3AM) when there's no traffic there are no cops about, and he could make great time getting to the airport from wherever he was.

Jek Hawkins · 12-10-07, 04:48

oh boy, vipers are some man's cars there! must've been some kind of meet some time ago because i was pulled over on the side of the highway and i hear this thunderous roar (i am not kidding you) from way behind and i see this pair of vipers, looked like they were modded if not fully race-ready walking ppl that are already doing 90 like they're standing still...

needless to say when they literally FLEW past the Focus I was in, it took about 30 seconds for the shockwave to hit, and a very very powerful shockwave at that.

oh yeah, and they were out of sight in roughly that amount of time too...

mhadden · 01-05-08, 01:41

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Originally Posted by itb76

I94 goes from Chicago north to Milwaukee. Some people drive fast, but 90 is kind of an exception, unless maybe I'm going that way. Everyone slows WAY down when they get to Wisconsin, it's a police state like Ohio!...

I'm one of the people that goes 90!

But you are correct in saying that the police are bad up there. Between Kenosha and just before the city, they are real bad. The random on/off ramps don't help either.

My biggest complaint is the asshats that drive below the speed limit in the left lane and won't get over even if there is no one else on the road

hXc drummer23 · 01-05-08, 02:54

I just got a radar detector and I drive about 85 on the interstate. I usually go 10-20 mph over the speed limit.

Labster · 01-05-08, 03:52

155 on the freeway in a car (Ford GT)
168 on the freeway on my old bike (R6)

Never went over 125 in either on a regular street.

I live in OH btw...

Jscort98 · 01-05-08, 04:25

depends how loud the music is.

Jscort98 · 01-05-08, 04:30

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Originally Posted by Macko

Speeding is getting too dicey in the UK, bloody cameras (fixed & mobile) everywhere. If you double the posted limit or break 100 you can kiss goodbye to you licence for a year or more. Factor in a 100% increase in insurance premiums & it's beyond a joke.

Not sure how it works in the States but over here you get photographed by a camera & you get a letter in the post about 2 weeks later with your details & the nature of the offence.

A friend went past the same mobile camera 4 times in 2 hours, 30mph zone, he clocked 34, 37, 34 & 35. First he knew about it was when 4 prosecution letters arrived on the same day. Fined $640, 12 points on his licence, banned for 6 months.

They don't even let you do five over there?

velobard · 01-05-08, 04:41

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Originally Posted by Jscort98

They don't even let you do five over there?

Two of them were for only 4 over!

azenthusiast · 01-06-08, 07:51

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Originally Posted by Macko

Speeding is getting too dicey in the UK, bloody cameras (fixed & mobile) everywhere. If you double the posted limit or break 100 you can kiss goodbye to you licence for a year or more. Factor in a 100% increase in insurance premiums & it's beyond a joke.

Not sure how it works in the States but over here you get photographed by a camera & you get a letter in the post about 2 weeks later with your details & the nature of the offence.

A friend went past the same mobile camera 4 times in 2 hours, 30mph zone, he clocked 34, 37, 34 & 35. First he knew about it was when 4 prosecution letters arrived on the same day. Fined $640, 12 points on his licence, banned for 6 months.

It's getting to be that way in Arizona. I live in Tempe and travel through Scottsdale all the time. They are becoming notorious for their usage of photo enforcement. On the Loop 101, the cameras aren't tripped unless you are doing at least 11 mph over, but the surface street cameras are much more sensitive. Tempe also has the red light cameras at nearly every intersection now.

JohnZ3MC · 01-06-08, 11:23

I drive buses, some of which are double decker buses, old original English ones, and last summer, with a good tailwind and heading down a hill with pedal to the metal, I hit 44 mph with old #405.

No passengers aboard but it was like an E ticket ride at Disneyland.
Downright scary. (I was in the slow lane)
-John C.

Accumulator · 01-06-08, 01:06

JohnZ3MC- Heh heh, that's a whole new take on "it's more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow"