This really makes my blood boil

[Matthew_T]

The fact that on the roads, we have speed limits.

What some people dont understand is that these are limits, not targets. Therefore cylists are not going too slow, we are going within the limit. Why drivers feel the need to try to go the limit is beyond me.

I, as a cyclist, am not breaking the law by going too slow, but my dad did last night by going 58 in a 40 mph speed limit.

To most drivers: Stop trying to hit the speed target when it is called a speed limit.

 

[Garnerboy]

Calm down. You, as an individual can't do anything about it, so let it drop

 

[Matthew_T]

Calm down. You, as an individual can't do anything about it, so let it drop

 

[BikeLiker]

If speed limits were in any way rational you might have a point. My local authority spends money in straightening roads and providing lighting and protected footpaths then immediately after lowers the speed limit. One dual carriageway was limited to 40 from 60 because it crossed a railway line and there was a "risk" of a car crashing through the steel parapet onto the line as in the Selby rail crash - incidentally caused by the driver falling asleep and nothing to do with speed. I can only assume it is to meet some target or other but it just makes a mockery of the limits.

 

[2Loose]

Some of my local signs indicate that it is fine to increase speed to 40mph outside schools....no logic. BUT it is responsible driving by the 90+% that prevents more fatalities than we see, so calm down and perhaps contact your Highways Dept if you are bothered.

 

[gaz]

As a cyclist, i have no speed limits. So it's annoying when cars slow me down on hills!

 

[Simba]

As a cyclist, i have no speed limits. So it's annoying when cars slow me down on hills!

Hehe same here.

 

[Matthew_T]

As a cyclist, i have no speed limits. So it's annoying when cars slow me down on hills!

+2

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I love the fact that this thread starts as a rant about drivers going too fast and, within seven posts, turns into a celebration of the fact that cyclists can blat around everywhere at whatever speed they see fit ...

 

[Gandalf]

I love the fact that this thread starts as a rant about drivers going too fast and, within seven posts, turns into a celebration of the fact that cyclists can blat around everywhere at whatever speed they see fit ...

Indeed, however if given a hypothetical and unpleasnt choice I'd rather be in a collision with a cyclist going too fast than a tonne or two of vehicle.

 

[Jonathing]

What some people don't understand is that these are limits, not targets.

Damnit I've been going wrong all this time, you'll be telling me I'm not supposed to sprint for village signs next.

 

[Mad at urage]

I always thought they were targets too! What with the red rings an' all .


Don't they indicate the number of points you get if you bulls-eye them?

 

[BrumJim]

Although you can fail a driving test for not driving fast enough where the speed limit and road conditions allow.

 

[Friz]

I, as a cyclist, am not breaking the law by going too slow, but my dad did last night by going 58 in a 40 mph speed limit.

And way to shop yer father. Hope he never did anything for ya.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

I gave up trying to tell my dad to slow down years ago, I just don't get his own car.

Got my own back when we went cycling together - mwahahahahaha!