Ive actually been driving very sensible the past year and doing a lot of trips sat at around 70mph for economy and just to generally chill, but there are times where this just isnt practical and you either need to go faster or slower depending on the pace of the lanes. Constantly braking when someone pulls into the middle lane in too small a gap, stabs the brakes, and shifts everyone back down to 65mph is not fun for a 3/4 hour motorway journey. No one would arrest you for safely overtaking at 80mph and keeping the flow of the motorway especially given if your speedo says 80mph chances are you could be doing around 75mph really anyway.

people that dont use roundabouts properly are a particular pain in the hole.

Especially the ones that sit in the left hand lane the whole way round. Or go in the right hand lane to go straight on (12 oclock) unless otherwise indicated

Quote from: Markpeople that dont use roundabouts properly are a particular pain in the hole.

I hate it whenever my parents do a racing line across the roundabouts on the dual carriageways near home, or around corners for that matter. Doesnt matter that they can see the road is clear. one day theyll go to do it and something will be in the blind spot etc...

QuoteEspecially the ones that sit in the left hand lane the whole way round. Or go in the right hand lane to go straight on (12 oclock) unless otherwise indicated

Between home and work theres a dual carriageway that ends with a roundabout that most people go across, and then is single lane. Used to piss me off something rotten when people cut down the right hand lane. It was true about the stereotypes associated with certain kinds of car though as you could normally 9/10 get it right whether they were going to do it based on the car.

Now theyve plastered a crapload of signs all over the place saying left lane is for left and straight on, right lane is right hand turning only....so now we get people bombing it down the right lane, and going round the roundabout 1.5 times to go straight on ><

Quote from: Clockd 0NeThe police dont give a flying about you doing 80mph, we all know this as most cars in the outside lane are doing more than 70mph; Ive done 80+mph past police cars on the motorway plenty enough times to know this as fact. Im not going to pretend to be some hypocrite goody-two-shoes that rigidly sticks to the speed limit on the motorway, half of the high and mighty have all done it. Anyone that seriously has never once gone over 70mph on the motorway... well Id hate to live in such awful fear tbh

Keyboard warriors do your worst, my front wings are like a shield of steel.

Isnt the prosecution threshold 10% + 2mph, so that would be 79mph?

I know a few people whove been clocked at 85-90 in a flow of traffic and it was a quick three points and a £60 fine.

To be honest I just have so little faith in the police these days that even though most of them exercise a bit of common sense when it comes to speeding I dont think one can assume that they will all ignore you these days, especially if they havent met their quota of on the spot fines for the week.

I personally just dont reckon its worth taking the chance these days if you can avoid it.

No mention of those special people who do 40 nomatter what, 40 on a 60 road, then doing 40 through a 30 zone, imbeciles.

I think a lot depends on who pulls you, a proper road fast road car with trafic cops in it... or a 12yr old in a micra


I got 3 points and a £60 fine the other week..... sitting at the lights, handbreak on, fleet off the pedals... I answered my phone quick and said Ill call you back... had to sit there another 30sec or so before the light changed..... got around the corner and got pulled

Quote from: zpyderI hate it whenever my parents do a racing line across the roundabouts on the dual carriageways near home, or around corners for that matter. Doesnt matter that they can see the road is clear. one day theyll go to do it and something will be in the blind spot etc...

IIRC this is what is recommended in the Highway Code, so youre in a minority.

Its recommended to cut across 2 lanes of traffic to go straight on at a roundabout? Or to effectively drive down the wrong side of the road for 10m or so because you couldnt be bothered to drive an extra metre and take the corner properly?

Whats the point in having road markings in that case :| The number of times Ive had to hit the brakes because someone either hasnt seen me or has gotten so used to cutting the corners/roundabout that they dont realise theyre in 2 lanes is beyond count.

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Quote from: Clockd 0NeThe police dont give a flying about you doing 80mph, we all know this as most cars in the outside lane are doing more than 70mph; Ive done 80+mph past police cars on the motorway plenty enough times to know this as fact. Im not going to pretend to be some hypocrite goody-two-shoes that rigidly sticks to the speed limit on the motorway, half of the high and mighty have all done it. Anyone that seriously has never once gone over 70mph on the motorway... well Id hate to live in such awful fear tbh

Keyboard warriors do your worst, my front wings are like a shield of steel.

Isnt the prosecution threshold 10% + 2mph, so that would be 79mph?

I know a few people whove been clocked at 85-90 in a flow of traffic and it was a quick three points and a £60 fine.

To be honest I just have so little faith in the police these days that even though most of them exercise a bit of common sense when it comes to speeding I dont think one can assume that they will all ignore you these days, especially if they havent met their quota of on the spot fines for the week.

I personally just dont reckon its worth taking the chance these days if you can avoid it.

Good points, my OP probably makes it sound like I tank it everywhere which really isnt the case, but I do keep my eye on the speedo a bit more when I see the police about. At the same time though Im happy to keep with the flow of traffic in the outside lane doing above 70mph and from my experience the police do not mind as long as traffic is moving and no one is driving dangerously or up the car in fronts backside. I certainly dont think they will pick people out at random from of a line doing 80mph. They often have better things to be doing or want to catch the dangerous speeders tanking it at 120mph, flashing people to move, etc.

Even the time I was stopped for pushing it too far I was only cautioned, the nice chap said something along the lines of "well, looking at it Im going to assume you were paying more attention to the road and not your speedo, just calm it down in future" and that was that. I know I got off extremely lucky that time but not every officer is going to be out to get you. Like you say though its not worth taking the chance these days if you can avoid it, which is why Ive been driving around 70mph everywhere lately.

Ive got 1 rule on speeding, if there is someone in front of you going faster, its ok

Quote from: MarkOr go in the right hand lane to go straight on (12 oclock) unless otherwise indicated

If its two lanes on approach and exit its perfectly acceptable to use either lane.

I think were all referring to the instances where its 2 lanes into one.

However I have seen equal numbers of people in the left lane go right on a dual lane roundabout, as I have seen people in the right go straight on. Its an accident waiting to happen I tells ya.

People who ride motorbikes.  Not seen one yet who doesnt ride like a c*nt.

Quote from: zpyderIts recommended to cut across 2 lanes of traffic to go straight on at a roundabout?

What I was talking about was the case when theres no other traffic, however clearly you mean when there is.