How much do you speed?

[dndfindley]

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

I was a police officer for a bit over 11 years. I never wrote speeding citations. I would use speed as a reason to stop someone in order to check for other violations such as DUI, suspended DL etc, but if everything else checked out they got a warning. I was not too popular with the higher up's. Except in cases of excessive speed it is not the killer it is made out to be. That is propaganda used to justify speeding tickets which for the most part are written for revenue.

 

[dndfindley]

How much do you speed?

As Michael Douglas said once in a movie "I view traffic signs and lights as suggestions." That's pretty much the way I look at it

 

[dndfindley]

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.

I75 thru downtown Atlanta is posted at 55. Except when congested the flow is usually around 80. If you go 55 or 60 you risk being rear ended. I go with the flow.

 

[dndfindley]

I'm retired LEO so I stay at the limit. By the way, Minnesota logged its first motorcycle fatality of 2014 a couple days ago. Guy on crotch rocket hit one of the thousands of pot holes opened up by our brutal winter. Witness claims the rider was doing around 100 mph but no way to really know.

Speed limits are always set artificially too low. In very locations has the 85 percentile method been used to determine limits. Unless I am held up by traffic I never drive the limit.

 

[Bob Denman]

Not worth it to me, I'm afraid if I get pinched again, they will come and take me away to the funny farm, however sometimes my tach does go up to 7000

Dave

We can't let this happen to you... :roflblack:

 

[dndfindley]

Speed limits are always set artificially too low. In very locations has the 85 percentile method been used to determine limits. Unless I am held up by traffic I never drive the limit.

Correction: Should have said "In very FEW locations has the 85 percentile method been used to determine limits."

 

[MouthPiece]

[.PARTIAL QUOTE: SNOOPY But then you have those few that are just idiots going fast to go fast w no regard to anyone, you see them sometimes just weaving all over the place through traffic or blast by you at 30-40 over the speed limit. Just plain stupid passing someone on an interstate doing 25 plus mph more than they are going IMO]

I couldn't agree more.

Chris

 

[Flanker]

I'm quite particular about following the posted limit in towns/villages. This a very rural area, and pissing off the local gendarmerie will make your life miserable..........................they know where you live. Out on the highway or freeway, I drive as fast as it's safe (for others and me), but usually am within 10 mph of the posted limit.

BTW: It's usually speed differential that's the problem, not speed per se. People driving significantly under the limit are just as hazardous as people driving significantly over the limit. And those pale in comparison to the scourge of dipsticks playing with their modern electronics while driving!

 

[Bob Denman]

I'm quite particular about following the posted limit in towns/villages. This a very rural area, and pissing off the local gendarmerie will make your life miserable..........................they know where you live.

:agree: Any dog knows enough not to crap where it has to sleep... :thumbup: nojoke

 

[jvicker]

I think its a law to be 10 miles over at all times here in Wisconsin.:thumbup:

 

[Copperman]

You talk'n to me?

How much do you speed?

I'm a left lane kind of guy. I stay there and move two to three MPH faster than everyone. Rarely am I passed.

 

[Edsts]

Back in my teens use to get crazy in the 100 plus on the interstate

That would be with couple very experience high pace riders at the early morning ride when highways were empty or late nite . Now I still do my 75 to 80 most of the time on my gsxr and sts . But on the track 120 or better .

Speeding on the track is like no other feeling power sliding drifting down shifting coming out them corners like a bat out if he'll . some Wheelies , Indos, still do all of that on Saturday in empty parking lots . Oh and the spider is different kind of fun too .

 

[MidTNDawg]

A long story made short

In 1981 riding to Oregon we were in MT and had to get an owner to open at 9:00 P.M. to buy gas. Sheriff stopped by because the station was open. Sheriff told me where his "boys" would be and where the Idaho Falls police would begin patrolling. We covered 100 mile in 60 minutes. Wife had no idea of our speed as the speedometer was covered by a tank bag. Oh yeah. We were on a BMW with one of Jimmy Carter's 85 mph speedometers. The one hour included speed up and slow down time. On the RT's it has been pretty much the 5-10 rule . . . but not always.

 

[Bob Denman]

If we survive our "Youth"; it's surprising how easy it is, to grow, "old and responsible", along the way! :thumbup:

 

[Dan_Ashley]

If we survive our "Youth"; it's surprising how easy it is, to grow, "old and responsible", along the way! :thumbup:

I have not yet survived my youth. However, I actually have been attempting to do that for the last 64 years. nojoke:shemademe_smilie:

 

[coz]

there you have it

156 votes out of thousands of members, there's no point.:lecturef_smilie: polls are useless. jmho.:gaah:

 

[PW2013STL]

YES - 90% of the time. Last ticket was for doing 81 in a 60 zone, but they offered a $75.00 class and once I took that they tossed the ticket.:yes:

 

[den1953]

Speed on Roadways

I generally, but not always try to keep at 5 mph over any given speed limit. There are exceptions when I fear getting run over from behind. Mostly on highways entering our town there are posted 35 mph speed limits but many come in at 55 to 60 all the way until there's a traffic light or a sharp turn. On Interstate 75 near here we had a 65 mph limit until last summer when it was raised to 70 mph. I preferred the old limit and going 70 mph but now the cagers push up to about 80 mph and that's getting outside of my comfort zone, especially with my wife on the back.

 

[Dan_Ashley]

I went 85 on the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10 in San Bernardino) today. I had to out run that dirt truck that had gravel blowing off it.

 

[flaggerphil]

I generally travel around 5mph over the limit, except in residential areas. I don't speed in them.