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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 9:58 am
Post subject: Police on motorway at 70mph
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M25 this morning. Well, the old SRAD was reading between 70-75mph
sitting behind them and I dont know how (in)acurate it is. Nobody
seemed to want to pass them anyway.
I was once told by a police motorcyclist (off duty taking me on an
advanced road riding course) that anything upto 80 and they're not be
interested.
What do you do? Sit there behind them? Creep past? Wait for someone
else to creep past then follow? Go past at 85? Sit there and hope they
take the next exit?
Once before I crept past, pulled about 3/4 mile gap then started to
speed up a little bit only to be caught up & nicked for 85! Was that
me being a stupid cunt or them being fucking arseholes?
In the end I crept past (75-77mph on my clock).
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:02 pm
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"Steve Bullimore" <steve.RemoveThis@spleen21.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> M25 this morning. Well, the old SRAD was reading between 70-75mph
> sitting behind them and I dont know how (in)acurate it is. Nobody
> seemed to want to pass them anyway.
>
> I was once told by a police motorcyclist (off duty taking me on an
> advanced road riding course) that anything upto 80 and they're not be
> interested.
>
> What do you do? Sit there behind them? Creep past? Wait for someone
> else to creep past then follow? Go past at 85? Sit there and hope they
> take the next exit?
>
> Once before I crept past, pulled about 3/4 mile gap then started to
> speed up a little bit only to be caught up & nicked for 85! Was that
> me being a stupid cunt or them being fucking arseholes?
>
> In the end I crept past (75-77mph on my clock).
>
Drop right back, like about 1/2 a mile, back up the traffic behind you so
you have a fairly clear run - change down, accelerate as hard as you can
gaining as much speed as possible, undertaking if necessary, fly by them at
130 
Then when they stop you and tell you what speed you were going say "Thats
bullshit, i was doing a good 10mph faster than that!"
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:36 pm
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Steve Bullimore spoke:
> What do you do? Sit there behind them? Creep past? Wait for someone
> else to creep past then follow? Go past at 85? Sit there and hope they
> take the next exit?
I usually go past at an indicated 80-ish, and have never been pulled for
it.
> Once before I crept past, pulled about 3/4 mile gap then started to
> speed up a little bit only to be caught up & nicked for 85! Was that
> me being a stupid cunt or them being fucking arseholes?
What part of
"anything upto 80 and they're not be interested."
is causing you some confusion?
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:54 pm
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"Steve Bullimore" <steve.DeleteThis@spleen21.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> M25 this morning. Well, the old SRAD was reading between 70-75mph
> sitting behind them and I dont know how (in)acurate it is. Nobody
> seemed to want to pass them anyway.
>
> I was once told by a police motorcyclist (off duty taking me on an
> advanced road riding course) that anything upto 80 and they're not be
> interested.
>
> What do you do? Sit there behind them? Creep past? Wait for someone
> else to creep past then follow? Go past at 85? Sit there and hope they
> take the next exit?
Go past a little bit faster than them - much as you did. But don't then
nail it.
I tend to find (in Surrey, anyway) that they sit at 60 to let people go past.
You don't get the big tailback that way (though some stupid cunts just refuse
to go faster than them at all, thus causing 2 lanes to travel at 60 and back up).
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 7:13 pm
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Dan405 wrote:
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> Drop right back, like about 1/2 a mile, back up the traffic behind you so
> you have a fairly clear run - change down, accelerate as hard as you can
> gaining as much speed as possible, undertaking if necessary, fly by them at
> 130
.... on the back wheel.
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 7:13 pm
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Steve P <S.Pennycooke DeleteThis @ftel.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Dan405 wrote:
> >
> > Drop right back, like about 1/2 a mile, back up the traffic behind you
so
> > you have a fairly clear run - change down, accelerate as hard as you can
> > gaining as much speed as possible, undertaking if necessary, fly by them
at
> > 130
>
> ... on the back wheel.
....and raising two fingers in their direction.
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 7:33 pm
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On Fri, 14 May 2004 17:02:01 +0100, "Dan405" <me.RemoveThis@privacy.net> wrote:
>"Steve Bullimore" <steve.RemoveThis@spleen21.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:e218a932.0405140758.71c5d3da@posting.google.com...
>> What do you do? Sit there behind them? Creep past? Wait for someone
>> else to creep past then follow? Go past at 85? Sit there and hope they
>> take the next exit?
>Drop right back, like about 1/2 a mile, back up the traffic behind you so
>you have a fairly clear run - change down, accelerate as hard as you can
>gaining as much speed as possible, undertaking if necessary, fly by them at
>130
Why so slow? Get up to a decent speed - 170 or so, and there's even a
fair chance they might not get your number down.
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 7:50 pm
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Steve Bullimore wrote:
>
> M25 this morning. Well, the old SRAD was reading between 70-75mph
> sitting behind them and I dont know how (in)acurate it is. Nobody
> seemed to want to pass them anyway.
>
> I was once told by a police motorcyclist (off duty taking me on an
> advanced road riding course) that anything upto 80 and they're not be
> interested.
>
> What do you do? Sit there behind them? Creep past? Wait for someone
> else to creep past then follow? Go past at 85? Sit there and hope they
> take the next exit?
>
> Once before I crept past, pulled about 3/4 mile gap then started to
> speed up a little bit only to be caught up & nicked for 85! Was that
> me being a stupid cunt or them being fucking arseholes?
>
> In the end I crept past (75-77mph on my clock).
>
They must've read your little piece about racing to work, the other day.
But generally they're gits that way. I got done in exactly the same
circumstances a while back. Apparently he saw me go past on my FJ12 and
thought I was more 'interesting' than the surrounding cars so he let me
get about 1/2 a mile ahead and then started timing me under bridges.
Shit happens.
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 8:22 pm
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On Fri, 14 May 2004 17:02:01 +0100, "Dan405" <me.RemoveThis@privacy.net> wrote:
>Drop right back, like about 1/2 a mile, back up the traffic behind you so
>you have a fairly clear run - change down, accelerate as hard as you can
>gaining as much speed as possible, undertaking if necessary, fly by them at
>130
I've actually done this. it wasn't a traffic car, and it was on the
A46 (normal A road, not a dual carriageway).
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 8:54 pm
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Ace wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 17:02:01 +0100, "Dan405" <me.RemoveThis@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> "Steve Bullimore" <steve.RemoveThis@spleen21.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:e218a932.0405140758.71c5d3da@posting.google.com...
>
>>> What do you do? Sit there behind them? Creep past? Wait for
>>> someone else to creep past then follow? Go past at 85? Sit there
>>> and hope they take the next exit?
>
>> Drop right back, like about 1/2 a mile, back up the traffic behind
>> you so you have a fairly clear run - change down, accelerate as
>> hard as you can gaining as much speed as possible, undertaking if
>> necessary, fly by them at 130
>
> Why so slow? Get up to a decent speed - 170 or so, and there's even
> a fair chance they might not get your number down.
I was thinking the same thing. [1]
[1] But 10mph quicker.
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 9:54 pm
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"Alex Ferrier" <alex DeleteThis @alex-f.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Steve Bullimore wrote:
> >
>>
>
> But generally they're gits that way. I got done in exactly the same
> circumstances a while back. Apparently he saw me go past on my FJ12 and
> thought I was more 'interesting' than the surrounding cars so he let me
> get about 1/2 a mile ahead and then started timing me under bridges.
>
Yep the Vascar system, but I'm told if you change lanes between bridges they
cannot
nick you as your recorded distance does not correspnd to theirs
Dunno how true this is, but I change lanes just for paranoia's sake 
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 11:34 pm
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On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:54:09 +0100, "Vass"
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>"Alex Ferrier" <alex DeleteThis @alex-f.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> Steve Bullimore wrote:
>> >
>>>
>>
>> But generally they're gits that way. I got done in exactly the same
>> circumstances a while back. Apparently he saw me go past on my FJ12 and
>> thought I was more 'interesting' than the surrounding cars so he let me
>> get about 1/2 a mile ahead and then started timing me under bridges.
>>
>
>Yep the Vascar system, but I'm told if you change lanes between bridges they
>cannot
>nick you as your recorded distance does not correspnd to theirs
>
>Dunno how true this is, but I change lanes just for paranoia's sake
Ain't gonna work if they're using a stop watch and the milometer.
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 11:34 pm
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Ben wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:54:09 +0100, "Vass"
> <_NOSPAM_write2mark.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>"Alex Ferrier" <alex.RemoveThis@alex-f.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>> Steve Bullimore wrote:
>>> >
>>>>
>>>
>>> But generally they're gits that way. I got done in exactly the same
>>> circumstances a while back. Apparently he saw me go past on my FJ12
>>> and thought I was more 'interesting' than the surrounding cars so
>>> he let me get about 1/2 a mile ahead and then started timing me
>>> under bridges.
>>>
>>
>>Yep the Vascar system, but I'm told if you change lanes between
>>bridges they cannot
>>nick you as your recorded distance does not correspnd to theirs
>>
>>Dunno how true this is, but I change lanes just for paranoia's sake
>>
>
> Ain't gonna work if they're using a stop watch and the milometer.
Hide in front of a truck[1]. And then... *don't* nail it, just sit there
for a couple of minutes. If they're interested in you, they'll whoosh up
the outside to regain sight of you, at which point you look round at them
with an air of urbane bemusement...
[1]IIRC they can't time you if they can't see you.
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(Msg. 14) Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 12:45 am
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"platypus" <platypus RemoveThis @ukrm.org> wrote in message
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>[1]IIRC they can't time you if they can't see you.
They timed me when they couldn't see me.
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 1:07 am
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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember steve.TakeThisOut@spleen21.demon.co.uk (Steve
Bullimore) saying something like:
>Once before I crept past, pulled about 3/4 mile gap then started to
>speed up a little bit only to be caught up & nicked for 85! Was that
>me being a stupid cunt or them being fucking arseholes?
The latter.
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