Don't scare the Horses!

[Jez]

As ever, these rules need intelligent application, not the old style police officer/ politician, chanting like a Clockwork Parrot  "Speed Kills, Speed Kills".

As ever rules are for the strict adherence of fools and the guidance of wiser  men.

I suspect the human condition will allow these argument to continue to run for many more years yet

Ed

Very true. Hence my anger at tax cameras doing you for speeding on a straight road, with no houses near them, at 5am when there is no one but you within a mile and in good weather and visibility.

When my incredibly fast and powerful motorbike was on the road there was rarely a journey I made where I didn't go beyond 100mph at some point (unless you've experienced 164bhp behind only 220kg you don't know what effortlessly powerful really is!), BUT if I was going past a school etc I'd slow down appropriately. A safe speed for the conditions can be way above or way below the legal speed. 

In foul weather I would go into the inside lane on a motorway and down at probably 60mph and be horrified by the mainly BMW and Merc cars still doing 90mph + in near zero visibility! I note that these same car models should all be illegal for having indicators fitted which seem not to work even when the car is brand new