.... up the M1 this evening. For once the roadworks were fairly clear, so I trundled up lane 1 at a GPS-verified 40 and watched the world go by. Particularly the young guy in the transit minibus who was blatting up at 60+ and carefully slowing down for all the cameras. He is, I would think, about to get an expensive lesson on what a SPECS camera looks like, and how it works. Fair cheered me up, it did. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000
I just *love* it when you see them brake for the cameras as they approach. 'That'll be your licence fucked before long'... <WEG> -- Lesley CBR600FW SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster) BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12 BONY#54P BOB#18 Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally
Heh, I had a bloke blast past me last week on the roadworks on the M6, ffs they even put up big fucking signs saying average speed recording cameras. Twas slightly ironic as he was in a brand new 06 registered burgandy bimmer M6 on the M6 ! Also saw a courier lowside an old gt550 (iirc) today, he was coming the other way turning on to the A4 east just before Harrods. Plenty of people were attending so I didn't stop as I was going t'other way. (Newham is a right shitty place to get to when you live on this side of London, anyone have any ideas on preferred routes that don't take you through the middle, s.circ . n.circ ? heading in from the M4).
North Circular, definitely - takes you the whole way from the M4 to the A13, and so just back in a bit to Newham. On a bike, the whole way around the North Circular will take you less than an hour.
In uk.rec.motorcycles, Brownz (mobile) belched forth and ejected the following: I couldn't agree more.
I live near Brent Cross, usedter go to Newham a lot, and always went round the 406. Took about half an hour to forty minutes, and had the benefit that if it was stationary, I could hack off down the back roads. But, you still have to get from the M4 to Staples Corner..... ! Ali
In uk.rec.motorcycles, Ali Hopkins belched forth and ejected the following: <Thinks about the Chiswick to Uxbridge Road stretch when it *isn't* rush hour> <Shudder>
In uk.rec.motorcycles, Ali Hopkins belched forth and ejected the following: Not as pretty as crossing Popes Lane with that gorgeous petrol station on the left. Of course, this pales into insignificance when you have the greenery on your LHS as you approach UR. Mine Dew, the speed camera is a bit of a looker on the way uphill to the 406... Oh, and then there's the one on the downhill stretch just before you get to that rusty-faced woman that sells the flowers by the lights.
