just thought i would correct that bit for you.
just thought i would correct that bit for you.
Pff. You didn't see what happened, so you can't judge.
He stated he was doing 129 mph in traffic. That is indeed very judge-able.
Not really. You saw them driving? You know his definition of "a bit of traffic"?
IMO it´s just unconscionable (?) to judge people if you don´t know the facts.
172km/h on my Kia Picanto 1.1 EX 
Even in he case of the right image there, going that fast is just plain stupid. What if that car pulled over in your lane, failing to see you coming blasting along? Other drivers are just too unpredictable when you're going that fast. (Unless we're talking autobahn here, where people expect you to go that fast. There's a huge difference.)
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isnt there an overall speedlimit on UK motorways? How about doing that speed for a longer time? Frankfurt - Cologne (180kms) in 1hour 10 mins. 
On UK Motorways the maximum speed is 70 MPH, which is ~113 KM/H
Not really so long as you're sensible you can never really guarantee the road to yourself in the UK because we have so many cars around, so long as you're alert and are prepared to back off when you see a situation where somebody is likely to pull out in front of you, like a car following a lorry, you should be fine a car on its own isn't likely to suddenly decide to drive in the fast lane
There's a video somewhere of a copper doing 130mph down an empty motorway, when he sees a lorry indicating and pulling across he just keeps his foot down, the lorry driver had got confused by the road signs and thought he needed to pull into the fast lane to merge onto the correct motorway. The copper decided to keep his foot planted and try and squeeze between the barrier and the lorry that was blindingly obviously going to do something daft, needless to say he ended up with a mangled patrol car and blamed the lorry driver for not having seen him approaching at double the speed limit, it never occurred to him then that when you see a lorry pulling across an empty road it might be worth slowing down? He had plenty of opportunities to do something to prevent or minimise the accident, he took none of them, a typical noob ignoring all danger
Should be added though for those that don't know, although this is our legal limit it is stupidly low and the only cars that don't break it are police cars and cars following police cars. The accepted limit is in reality somewhere around 85mph and most traffic drives about this speed on a busy motorway, although for some bizzare reason that I'll never understand traffic on an empty motorway tends to flow at about 75mph. The motorway isn't a terribly sensible place to drive fast because they're full of so many speed cameras so few people drive faster than that.
do you think that would wash in a court?
i don't need to know what happened. doing those speed on a public road with even one car as traffic is dangerous. and to think otherwise is just plain stupid if you ask me.
picture one looks like it's a red light (people crossing) and without that it would be a traffic jam. the other one is traffic. (may it be one car or 30 cars it's traffic)
See it everyday, stupid women i find in the 3rd lane doing 55mph-60mph. That's more dangerous then speeding in my view and i think alot of other drivers would say the same. If a car is coming up behind you, you move straight away not stay in that lane, hogging it up like you own it.
i can totally 100% agree with that.
Not me (for the car in the right most lane). But then again, that lane is the slow lane here
.We have them driving side by side at 50 mph in a 55 mph zone or 55 in a 65 zone with neither making the overtake. Now is what pi$$es me off!
Or the cop in the slow lane doing 5 mph below the limit and cars lined up 2 by 2 behind scared to pass. Looks like a Daytona 500 caution lap.
Whel basicly my bike already goes 250 thousend Km/u standing stil (due to circulating planet know)
But to be more on topic my dads car has gone 221 Km/u
in belgium on a spa francochamp trackday
But to be more on topic my dads car has gone 221 Km/u
in belgium on a spa francochamp trackday
Good answer.
I drove that road in last may, there was heavy traffic especially on two lane parts, and some roadworks, they slow down a lot. So it means you have to go pretty fast on fast sections
.But if you drive with light traffic and no roadworks you'd need to keep a reasonable speed of 160.
270 km/h in an Audi S8 test car on a runway
on a bike ive owned, 160 on my r6, in general, 198mph on a mates zx12 at a straightliners event.
Isn't it scary to ride a bike at 198mph, knowing that if you'd fall you'd die?
Fastest i drove was 175 km/h on a totally empty brand new tarmac highway with no cars in site in a Golf MKII 1.8, 90 hp...
I don't think i'll ever go that fast again considering the condition that my car is and his age, especially that those 175 felt like going 250..
My speed varies to the speed of the car ahead of me... When going to work (daylight) i ride in the midlle lane at about average 80-100 km/h simply because car ahead of me doesn't go any faster so i try to maintain his speed and distance beatween us, and i don't fancy getting early to work.. (it's highway btw)
At night(or better say, early in the morning), at the same highway i go about 100, 120... depends on my mood...
I simply don't want to go faster because i don't have any of the modern safety gadgets in the car, my suspension is pretty low and stiff and is just uncofortable going faster than that...
I don't think i'll ever go that fast again considering the condition that my car is and his age, especially that those 175 felt like going 250..
My speed varies to the speed of the car ahead of me... When going to work (daylight) i ride in the midlle lane at about average 80-100 km/h simply because car ahead of me doesn't go any faster so i try to maintain his speed and distance beatween us, and i don't fancy getting early to work..
(it's highway btw) At night(or better say, early in the morning), at the same highway i go about 100, 120... depends on my mood...
I simply don't want to go faster because i don't have any of the modern safety gadgets in the car, my suspension is pretty low and stiff and is just uncofortable going faster than that...
fastest I drove was just short of 200km/h in my '94 miata, on the french highway a few weeks ago, more than 6k rpm in 5th gear equals lots of noise
I've seen at least one rider (Shinya Nakano on a Kawasaki ZX-RR?) crash at Mugello doing about 200 mph when his rear tire failed. Granted, that's a purpose-built racetrack without any steep curves and plenty of runoff. The speed itself isn't what's dangerous, nor is sliding on the ground as long as you have full leathers and a helmet. It's the sudden stop should you happen to hit anything that'll kill you.
I wonder how the car didnt peel it's body panels off
yeah 280 km /sec is fast even for the veyron
top speeds
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