Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
I just prefer driving as normal, but with that little hint that there’s a speed limit. I’d rather have my right foot ready for action than not!
The older I get the less ultimate speed interests me. On the bike for me it’s about 2nd gear blips out of corners, nothing quite like a motorbike for that. Generally speaking I’m on the speed limit when conditions allow and maybe edging towards 80 on the motorway, something this bike is excellent at!
He’s lucky, TVRs don’t belong on wet roads, they command respect on a dry road, on wet roads they’re an accident you haven’t had yet... until you do. You can drive them on wet roads but any upwards change of speed needs to be done gently. If you steer out to overtake, and plant your foot down too much, the back end will snap out on you. Similarly, if you accelerate out of a bend to hard (doesn’t need much pressure on the loud pedal), you can easily lose the back end. They’re not crazy fast by modern standards but they are very unforgiving.About twenty years ago, driving south on the A1 Peterborough bypass in a very heavy rainstorm, I was passed at speed by a TVR whose driver didn't seem to think the state of the road was of any concern.
I came off the A1, and after about half an hour went round a bend in a country road to see a TVR in the same colour sat axle-deep about twenty yards into a ploughed field which was separated from the road by just a low bank. There were no tyre tracks between the bank and the car.
The driver was sat in the car. I stopped to see if he was okay. Physically, he was, but he had a very high embarrassment factor.
Speed cameras are something of a blunt instrument but speed is a massive contributor to road fatalities.
There is overlap in this, speed limits at the very least give guidance for those incapable of thought. Number of times I’ve been passed, at very high speed, on the motorway in heavy rain when driving to the conditions is frighteningInappropriate speed for conditions is. Exceeding the speed limit; 4-8% ish depending on which stats you believe.
Hoping to get my bike back on the road in the not too distant future, (since there's so much bike talk here)
It's been about 4 years now... longest I've been without 2 wheels on the road up till this was a 6 month ban under toting up of points about 25 years ago. I've never owned a car.
Inappropriate speed for conditions is. Exceeding the speed limit; 4-8% ish depending on which stats you believe.
Hurry up before the weather breaks. Being over 60 I sold my 100bhp+ sport tourer last year, it was a great machine and took SWMBO and me on some great tours. Too much now, got a chrome Interceptor 650 and lots of polish! Happy biker again.
The 10%+2 mph is set because car speedos tend to over read by that amount, check your sat nav, when my speedo reads 77 I'm actually doing 70.
There is overlap in this, speed limits at the very least give guidance for those incapable of thought. Number of times I’ve been passed, at very high speed, on the motorway in heavy rain when driving to the conditions is frightening
Is that a number which gives an indication of how many fatalities were caused in incidents where the victim most likely would not have died if the impact were at a speed below the limit ?
There's only ever one motoring / riding offence and that is recklessness, not caring at all about the possible effect you could have on other people.
No they don’t. Yours is the worst I’ve heard of in decades. Mine is one or two mph high from 20 to 70mph when compared to gps and those roadside speed warning things.
I drove my Giffith to work in the snow one day. That was the only time. The blasted thing was a nightmare to control, particularly going downhill to a road junction. Still, I loved it.He’s lucky, TVRs don’t belong on wet roads, they command respect on a dry road, on wet roads they’re an accident you haven’t had yet... until you do. You can drive them on wet roads but any upwards change of speed needs to be done gently. If you steer out to overtake, and plant your foot down too much, the back end will snap out on you. Similarly, if you accelerate out of a bend to hard (doesn’t need much pressure on the loud pedal), you can easily lose the back end. They’re not crazy fast by modern standards but they are very unforgiving.
I know another Griff owner who overcooked it coming out of a bend and clipped and embankment with his back end, he rolled over and tore his scalp, needed some serious stitches, miraculously he had no other injuries... he went out and bought another Griff. It happened just a couple of minutes up the road from me in Stonnall, I always drove down that road really gingerly.
Another guy I knew, long before I had my Griff, crashed his Cerbera into the end of a crash barrier exiting a roundabout in Telford, he didn’t live to tell that story himself.
No they don’t. Yours is the worst I’ve heard of in decades. Mine is one or two mph high from 20 to 70mph when compared to gps and those roadside speed warning things.