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i went down a road to be greeted by a nice young police lady waving me in for a spot check

Tahrey1043 wrote:mmmm ok your rolling size is maybe even a little LARGER than standard, if thats the correct figure

so why do they look so roller skatey? deffo 14s not 13s?

13in = 330mm
14in = 356mm

185 x 0.5 x 2 = 185 (duh )
145 x 0.8 x 2 = 232
155 x 0.7 x 2 = 217

185 + 356 = 541
232 + 330 = 562
217 + 330 = 547
(185 + 330 = 515)
... but even so, what your speedo might say is 56kmh on 145/80 R13s (34.8mph) might be 54kmh on your current set (33.6mph)

(um, ok, quirk to enterprise, one to beam up.... nevermind! </runs>)

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metz wrote:i went down a road to be greeted by a nice young police lady waving me in for a spot check

Ooh, that sucks Bad luck there...

metz: thats f***ing awful luck

groovy: how much would it take to convince you to knock on their window and ask why they're not outside the school?

matt: blame it on the scientific education - post no conclusion without evidence
besides it was quicker to use the board's text editor as a notepad after i realised i couldnt remember the figures

Quite a lot, I'm afraid.. for a start, I don't have the kind of confidence it takes to park up in front of a speed camera, bang on the windows of the van and demand to have words with a group of probably very bored and pissed off policemen.. especially when I have to drive past said camera every time they put it up. Wouldn't like to think they were waiting for me to come through Normally I'd assume it's because there isn't enough space or a straight enough road, but there's a double width pavement and a straight stretch of road 50 yards away from the school, further into the heart of the village where the kids actually get knocked down... plus, there's invariably a copper with a laser gun or another camera van at the other end of the village (standing outside the police station, the lazy sod..), and there's no excuse for that apart from laziness or catching people as they accelerate from the needlessly long 30 into the 50 limit the other side.

I have to say, I do stick to the limits as firmly as possible most of the time.. but I still find it ridiculous that the same limit should apply at school leaving time and at midnight, and I find the attitude of the powers that be towards most speed cameras completely irresponsible. Why, for example, instead of having speed camera notices plastered over every signpost in england for drivers to get complacent about, don't we have black spot notices on the badly affected sites, speed camera notices, backed up by speed cameras, on the seriously bad areas, and have a generally responsible attitude aided and encouraged by the government? It's no use telling people that they'll burn in hell if they don't drive at exactly the stated speed in every situation, because half of the drivers will ignore the advice and the other half will believe they're perfectly safe providing they're doing no more than the speed limit...

This is turning into a bit more of a rant than I intended, and judging by most of my ramblings probably won't be very coherent, but never mind...

Just been watching the local news tonight, and there was a report on the A442 which is a right death trap apparently. Relatively narrow for an A-road, very busy, lots of sharp bends and steep gradients - its been judged to be only good for about 35 round the corners according to those little signs under the sharp-curve warning triangles (which no-body ever obeys, as they're set hilariously low 95% of the time, cry wolf syndrome here it would seem) on a 60 limit road with otherwise pretty poor signage, and a surface whose traction isn't worth crap in the wet. Seems there's been about 10 fatal accidents in the last month or something. Some of them people flying right off the road and into a ditch / tree, others where they've just strayed out of their lane instead with some massive understeer, and what might otherwise have been a terrifying and educational lesson in being careful on country roads has become a tragic head-on with someone else who's being more cautious, simply because of the volume of traffic.

Local people been complaining for years for something to be done, finally the news crews have taken notice and pressured the local council and police about it.

What would you do in the present road safety climate? Drop the limit to 50 or 40 and festoon it with warning signs and cameras? You'd think so, given that even the safest bit of a big semi-urban motorway is under such clouds now.

Instead..... they'll "take time to assess the situation and think about installing extra safety measures if appropriate", and in the meantime put a couple of "accident blackspot" signs - if they're anything like the ones around nottingham, they'll be very difficult to read in the dark and rain at speed.
I get the feeling that many of the accidents are taking place well below the current speed limit, and people might truly ease off if they saw such warnings down an obviously VERY dangerous road - and so they would make very little cash off the cameras.

(unlike the ones on the A446, also dangerous in places, but the cameras put where the speed of the vehicles that would be caught would be highest, but more or less the safest spots... not the most dangerous. And "warning sharp curve, 30mph" signs (which now light up and flash if you approach at 40 or more - ie, continuously) even though trucks can and do take the particular bend - which also has a delta-type junction on it that can act as a decent escape lane - quite safely at 45. In the pouring rain.

Bloody hell...

Almost as upset about that as I am that the batteries in my digicam died as i was taking my only chance before saturday to photograph the inadequate signs around this dropped 30 limit round my way...