How much do you speed?

[Dan_Ashley]

How much do you speed?

[3 Wheel Addict]

Not much for me, I'm always on back roads taking in the views and avoid the hiways like the plague!

[hchays]

I voted for 5/10, but I love the last one... lmao

[mindman]

My answer depends:
I have two bikes: A BMW R1200RT and a Spyder RT.

- When I'm with my wife on the Spyder, it's generally 5-10 mph over the speed limit - no more. Faster than that and her reaction is worse than a LEO giving out a ticket.

- When I'm alone on the Beemer, it's generally as fast as I can safely go given traffic, conditions, etc.

[Dan_Ashley]

My wife has restricted me to ryding in the living room. Can't get up much speed but the bike stays cleaner.

[Magdave]

The saying around here I had a cop tell me was 8 your great 9 your mine.

[OJ UK]

In the UK its becoming very difficult to speed without being caught.
The section of Motorway near me has speed cameras every 5-600 yards.
The limits are variable and posted on the overhead gantries. They range from 30
to 70 which is the national speed limit, according to the amount of traffic.
The last time they nailed me was in 1993 on my birthday! 36 mph in a 30 zone.
That was sneaky hand held radar. Such is life.
I'm a qualified DoT motor-cycle instructor and if you can read the road and the traffic
you can speed safely, police drivers and riders do it every day, with or without lights and sirens,
however I don't advocate it.
It's about your state of alertness and your reactions in a given situation.
Sadly many drivers on today's roads don't seem to be imbued with any common sense.
They do stupid things and kill people. I've seen sport bike riders in London doing well over
100mph wearing a crash helmet shorts and sandals with a similarly dressed girl on the pillion
(except she has a top on !).
In the poll I've clicked "As fast as I can get away with." I don't take unnecessary risks and I don't
endanger other road users. So a lot of the time I drive within the limit and sometimes I don't.

[Jeriatric]

the last one... lmao

Ya think someone will check in.....

[Jeriatric]

Didn't check one. For me, it's situational.

[ARtraveler]

I am usually a 5+ posted person. It always gets me through the radar boys without any incidents. No speeding tickets since 2001.

[cuznjohn]

our parkway here is monitored by hwy 3 motorcycle division, so we get lucky because most of the cops ride in good weather so they seem to look away sometimes. one of my friends was doing 70 and got pulled over and the cop asked him why he was speeding and he said i just started to go fast, the cop laughed and told him to get out of here. but when riding on long island the troopers are on the parkway and they don't care what you say, if they pull you over your getting a ticket

[jScotD]

I'm a 5-10 guy most of the time.. on interstate I always liked to center myself between the waves, eventually catching up to what is in front of me.. working my way through to get to the other side.. now this was on a motorcycle.. not the spyder.. as I am still trying to unlearn..over 50 years of 2 wheels.. at least now I don't put my feet down when I stop..

Oh and have had a radar detector since 1978.. In colorado once, mine went off like crazy,, I rode it front and the only time I ever rode with any one he was behind, because I had the RD.. coming to a crest of a hill on inerstate. hit the brakes hard, as we were doing around 90.. topped the hill. and there were 5 state troopers lined up at an angle.. Our bikes were filthy as we were... we went by them --right on the speed limit-- as the guys with the radar guns looked at us suspiciously

then we got on back roads and Headed back to Houston

[NetJunkie]

I bought the RS-S for a reason...and it wasn't because I couldn't afford the RT.

[Bob Denman]

I sell insurance, so I see what a driving record that looks like, "Pig-Tracks" in the snow", does to the cost of the darn stuff!
I'm always aware of what the limits are; and I'm never more than 5 mph over... More often than not; I'm right on the limits, or under them on secondary roads...
So get in front of me; you'll scare the deer out of my way!

[SNOOPY]

I interpret the speed limit a little differently than most people.

Been quite a while since I've had a ticket, don't plan on getting another anytime soon.

You get to know roads and it's easy around here to pick a nice stretch out that a cop can't hide in a cubbyhole on the side of the road.

[SAPD911]

I write a lot of speeding tickets (give lots of warnings/depends on driving record and conditions), limit for me is 10, but some guys only do 8. School zones are 6

[whitjim10]

[Magdave]

One other thing I have noticed since GPS has become common is most speedo's are calibrated a little high to begin with 1-3mph higher from most I have compared to GPS speed.

[Some Guy]

The saying around here I had a cop tell me was 8 your great 9 your mine.

My nephew (a cop) says something similar: "up to 9 you're fine, over 9 you're mine".

[SNOOPY]

My sister is a cop, she doesn't do traffic. lol

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

I used to push up to 9 over, but the past few years tolerances have been reduced, in my observation. At 5 over I've never been stopped, even when being checked by radar. That seems to the safe limit around 90% of the country I've ridden through the past few years. In heavy traffic I try to go with the flow. Interestingly, it seems like the closer you get to a large metropolitan area the more above the posted limit the flow is. In TX last fall 5 over was the norm out in the open, but in Houston I tended to get run over at 10 over, even in rain.

[NancysToy]

Around here 4 is good on the freeway but 5 will often get you busted. They are less lenient in town.

[Dan_Ashley]

The only times I blatantly ignore the speed limit is when I have a full bladder accompanied with over active kidneys!

[OJ UK]

The only times I blatantly ignore the speed limit is when I have a full bladder accompanied with over active kidneys!

Well at least when you get stopped by a cop you'll have a excuse to pee on his boots!!

[asp125]

I plead the 5th.