It costs far too much money to put up a chopper just for speeding,it would not be a cost effective use of a very expensive resource.On the way to and from another use the helicopter can be used for this,however speeding will never be a priority for its use.Much cheaper to put up road signs saying that it will happen!!!
so the blue heli wit yellow under belly and POLICE down tyhe side the came down real low and st along sdie me and a mate for a mionute or two wasnt speed checking us??
if the fatalitie numbers rise i wouldnt bet against them using it, i know if three riders that did get clocked, all three were done for offences, they was well over a ton in NSL, chopper clocked them and a car appeared when they stopped.
either way i think i’'l go play elsewhere for while
Nah PJ, That Bike was still being raced in Italy back then! Plus I didn’t see ‘The Light’ until 1994 when I got my first proper smoto, so I was still doing it like this!
I’m not sure you’re reading it properly,what I said was that speeding will never be a priority for the use of the helicopter,now and again it will be used but if a more necessary use pops up it will go to that.
Got to watch out for that paranoia,otherwise you’ll never leave your house:w00t:
Yeah, the joke about the trees probably was a bit sick. Err, sorry?
A lot of people ride and drive the Dunmow, Finchingfield, Bumpstead road fast and only a very few of them end up hitting trees so you have to wonder what happened and if there is anything to learn from it, especially if you know that road and have ridden it fast yourself. Was it an unforced error? Did they put themselves in some situation where there was no escape route? 6:15pm on a monday, 42 year old on a red and white Yamaha (R1?). Maybe he was trying to get his knee down and met the commuter BMW SUV overtaking the tractor?
The only really dangerous behaviour I see round there is always the same thing; dodgy overtakes from the people at the rear of a group. You know the situation. There’s a short straight so the first person overtakes, no problem. The second one overtakes and it’s getting a bit short of space. The third person overtakes and it’s now properly sketchy. They’re on the wrong side of the road approaching a blind right hand bend with a car on their left. So they have to hope there’s nothing coming, and go from wide open to pulling in tight on the car and then jamming their brakes on and then immediately swing the other way to take the corner perhaps a bit faster than they meant to. When you’re the 4th person, or following in a car or in the car being overtaken, you find yourself shutting your eyes and going “NO, NOT NOW!”. Even more so when it’s your son who just did that (and yes, he got an ear full later).
GORD! RIP, thoughts to family & friends.I rode down there less than an hr before that happened!!! Lovely afternoon. Bloody sand in the middle of the road on the B1053 - put me into other lane on a bend!
As for the biggest risk being the back man keeping up, true, but thats a risk you don’t have to take. I think the big risk down those roads is whats round the corner.
On a nicer note. Thanks to the dude that thumbsed up me to check I was OK when I’d stopped for a heat wave stretch break.
I looked at the link and was suprised the deaths in age range 40 something were as high as 20 somthing! I’ve heard elsewhere that death rate decreases with ageAs for sex, wouldn’t it be sexist to put such a report up ?