I broke the speed limit today.

Were you doing a wheelie at the same time Munkey. ?? :)
 
I wonder what speed Robbie Keane will do in the opposite direction. when the football season is over.
 
see thats the annoying thing, i actually think this is fine if its a quiet road, i mean where is the harm?

Hopefully the harm would only be to the driver! That would be the best scenario, the more boy racers kill themselves the less they will innocent victims and the end result will be safer roads for the rest of us.

PS: I've had a blow out in a van at 70MPH just outside Perth and found it really difficult to control! I can't remember hitting pot holes etc, it was just a blowout!
 
Unless you was towing a trailer or caravan that is not fast. I've done half that speed on a push bike ffs. Scots are easily thrilled.

and to prove it here's the picture the speedcam took

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Seriously though Witchy, you have done ther boy racer thing now with your new car, so no need to see if you can get it to 125mph or higher. I am not going to rant at you, I have broke the speed limit myself, not at anywhere near that speed but I am a scaredy cat...:proud:

120 was the absolute limit mate, I'd have ran out of road if I tried to squeeze any more from it :)

I'm not interested in speed, that's why I bought a diesel car, it was just curiosity as the circumstances were ideal, so I floored it. :)

If there had been anyone else in the car or any traffic in sight I wouldn't have bothered.
 
Unless you was towing a trailer or caravan that is not fast. I've done half that speed on a push bike ffs. Scots are easily thrilled.

Shut it Essex Boy!

You were born in the back of a Peugeot 205 GTi

;)
 
Just to Clarify A point.
I do not Speed in 30 , 40 or 50 limits.
If I am guilty of exceeding the Legal speed limit it is in a 60mph limit or a Duel carriagway or motorway.
The statistics prove it that more people are killed in accidents involved in low speed (in a 30 and 40mph limits) , than are killed in High speed Accidents.
So if it was purely excessive speed alone that was the contributing factor , then by that theory the higher the speed, then the higher the fatality rate (wrong!).
I have driven in Germany at speeds in excess of the speed limits in this country if fact more than twice the legal limit in this country.
It was Perfectly legal and in fact i overtook A german police car doing over 150mph on a bike and he did not even give me a second look.
Germany has a lower fatality rate than ours, because they have a better road system and they are used to and trained to drive safely at high speeds.
The reason for the higher fatyality figure in 30 and 40 limits is the addition of Pedestrians and cyclists.
You dont get many people crossing the road in a 60 limit.
At higher speeds the fatalities are the drivers and passengers of the colliding vehicles.
Anything above 40 head on and your pretty much dead anyway.
Lets do simple maths! 60mph legal speed car hits another car head on also doing 60mph giving a combined impact speed of 120mph.
Both cars were travelling at the maximum legal speed limit.
So its not the Legality or illeagal speed that killed them , but driver error, not reading the road conditions , poor concentration, distraction, poor reaction times, inexperience, badly maintained vehicles, poor road surface.
the list could go on as to possible contributing factors.
Speed may be a contributing factor, but speeed alone does not kill, otherwise the Germans would have a higher fatality rate than ours.
Lack of education, poor driving skills and just plain pushing the vehicle deyond its safe handling limit kills people.
How many of you on here even understand the theory and practice of understear, overstear and how to counteact them.
Left foot braking round bends in a front wheel drive vehicle, skid control.
All of the aforementioned are advanced driving techniques that are not taught on any driving test (apart from advanced), which i have.
A Motorsport license, A motorbike license, and advanced instructor training.
With the ability to process information fast and react accordingly , hazard perception training.
Most of you may inly commute short distancs to and from work and may only do on average 20,000K a year.
The only people on here that would undestand, are those that drive for a living.
The more time you spend on the road, then usually the better you get a reading hazards and perception of other road users action, even before they take action themselves.
When i was installing playground equipment years ago i did 160,000 in 12 months.
Because of the nature of my new job i'm spending alot of time on the road, 1000 miles last week alone.
So working on the theory of Experience on the road, with 25 years on the road and alot of miles in those years, in cars, on bikes and driving HGV,s then yes i consider myself an experienced and competant driver.
I'm not saying i'm perfect, but at least i have gone out of my way to gain the training to minimise the risks we all face as drivers today.
How many of the keyboard warriors on here can claim that?
All of my Vehicles, bikes have been highly maintained to the point of Extremity.
After all your life depends on it!
All my previous modified cars have had uprated bakes, supension, long before any engine modifications were made.
Driving high peformance cars does not kill people , you learn how to handle the power and use it correctly in the right situation.
Inexperience kills people !
Showing off to your mates, when you only just passed your test and the inexperience of how to handle the vehicle kills people.
So those who wave the reckless over 60mph card at anyone that breaks the speed limit by 2mph, maybe they would be better off honing and improving their own driving skills and then the roads really would be a safer place!
 
Shut it Essex Boy!

You were born in the back of a Peugeot 205 GTi

;)

Damn they were fast, but not as fast as my fibreglass Renault 5 GT Turbo, top speed 140mph. Every Essex boy wanted to be like me, or is it I was like every Essex boy :err:

I'll give you kudos for keeping that chip fryer in a straight line.
 
Damn they were fast, but not as fast as my fibreglass Renault 5 GT Turbo, top speed 140mph. Every Essex boy wanted to be like me, or is it I was like every Essex boy :err:

I'll give you kudos for keeping that chip fryer in a straight line.

Well, yerv killed this thread stone dead

:proud:
 
Can hardly believe this thread has had over 50 replys' and very few have condemned Witchys' actions.
At that speed, even on a motorway you are less than 2 seconds away from killing yourself or worse still, someone else.

Rat, I think it was posted a utube video sometime ago showing the consequences of speeding. It shocked a few members but unfortunately doesn't appear to have had a lasting effect.

A member even said that he had extra special training in rally driving which insuniates that he is capable of driving at excess speeds on public roads.

I was going to keep out of this thread if more members had exercised common sense. Unfortunately I knew 2 young children who would have been a damn sight older now had their lives not ended prematurely due to being mown down by irresponsible drivers.

C'mon lads, am I the only one who knows people who should still be amongst us?.The road always looked clear and never seen the child, who by the way always ran into the road.

I know that some will think that its' different on a motorway, why?
Children are passengers on the motorway.

Cut your speed and cut death.

Chookey
 
Can hardly believe this thread has had over 50 replys' and very few have condemned Witchys' actions.
At that speed, even on a motorway you are less than 2 seconds away from killing yourself or worse still, someone else.

Highly unlikely as there wasn't a soul for miles mate. :)

I knew 2 young children who would have been a damn sight older now had their lives not ended prematurely due to being mown down by irresponsible drivers.

That's awful, but I don't see how it's relative to me speeding, alone on an open motorway.

C'mon lads, am I the only one who knows people who should still be amongst us?.The road always looked clear and never seen the child, who by the way always ran into the road.

I've not seen too many children playing on a Motorway if I'm honest mate.

I do NOT speed, this was a once off on a deserted piece of motorway, no one else was involved. Absolutely under no circumstances do I speed on any roads within a built up area, or even on 60mph A roads. I've got 5 kids, so I'm always alert to the fact that kids can and do suddenly appear from nowhere. It would kill me if I lost one of my kids to a speeding driver, so I'm constantly looking out for kids eagle-eyed and my speed is usually a notch or 2 below the speed limit.

I know that some will think that its' different on a motorway, why?
Children are passengers on the motorway.

I can't disagree with anything you've said mate, in-fact I'll be leaving you some REP after I write this reply. But this post was just a middle aged man who took all things into consideration and opened his car up on an open road and reached a speed that he didn't think his car was capable of, hence my excitement and my post, basically to BRAG that I travelled at 120mph in my little old 53 plate Astra Diesel, on an open motorway, no cars in sight at all an no passengers in the car with me.

We all know speed kills and I'm the first person to shake my head when I see a Boy Racer (not all Boy Racers are boys BTW, some are in their 60's, lol), I hate seeing people speeding on normal roads, especially is people are about, as you quite rightly said, all it takes is a second and lives could be lost.
 
Great post Chookey.

But...I would guarantee that EVERY member in here has driven at a speed fast enough to kill a person, whether it be on a motorway, or side road.

Witchy was able to push his jallopy over & above the speed limit set by the laws of the land.
Do you think it would have made any difference if he hit someone at 120mph, as opposed to 70mph?
I know that it'd be slightly harder to control a vehicle at the higher speed, but we are talking milliseconds here, and not enough to react quick enough to evade any obstacle.

Don't get me wrong, I don't condone driving recklessly, or driving without due care & attention, but I would say that the vast majority have had a moment of madness behind the wheel, it's just that most of us put it behind us and drive carefully for the rest of the time.

I think we can firmly rule Witchy out from the boy racer category.

I'm sure when he's not shitting behind bushes & setting fire to cars, he's a very responsible person indeed :)
 
Hmmm just a thought but why don't we slow trains down to 30mph after all the deaths/accidents there have been lately?

Those buggers don't even try and swerve if they see you, one even came straight at me, he must have know I was pissed at that time of night and struggling to see the tracks in the dark.
 
Can hardly believe this thread has had over 50 replys' and very few have condemned Witchys' actions.
At that speed, even on a motorway you are less than 2 seconds away from killing yourself or worse still, someone else.

Rat, I think it was posted a utube video sometime ago showing the consequences of speeding. It shocked a few members but unfortunately doesn't appear to have had a lasting effect.

A member even said that he had extra special training in rally driving which insuniates that he is capable of driving at excess speeds on public roads.

I was going to keep out of this thread if more members had exercised common sense. Unfortunately I knew 2 young children who would have been a damn sight older now had their lives not ended prematurely due to being mown down by irresponsible drivers.

C'mon lads, am I the only one who knows people who should still be amongst us?.The road always looked clear and never seen the child, who by the way always ran into the road.

I know that some will think that its' different on a motorway, why?
Children are passengers on the motorway.

Cut your speed and cut death.

Chookey

Firstly My Synpathy goes out to anyone, who knows of or has lost anyone involved in a road accident.
I have a wife and 2 Young children myself.
I think you may wish to read my post a liitle more closely in relation to the stated facts rather than looking for insinuations.
given the milage that i do, if i was excedding the speed limit consistantly, then i would have lost my license by now (instead i have no penalty points whatsover!).
Just maybe as per my origonal post: that there is no-one on here that is not guilty of breaking the speed limits at some time! therfore they could not feel justified in throwing stones at me as punishment!
In my youth i was a typical boy racer and as the result of a near fatal road crash, i decided to take up Motorsport.
My crash was down to Stupidity and inexperience in Roadcraft (I was only 19).
Something which by getting involved in motorsport has made me a better and safer driver on the road.
That does not mean that i tear everywhere at excessive and dangerous speeds, it just means that i'm more aware than most motorists of cause and affect.
Alot of crashes are caused by driver error! the driver may get themselves in a situation which they dont have the experience or training to avoid or correct.
This has nothing to do with speed , as you can experience understear & oversteer at relatively low speeds, but poor road conditions (snow,ice,Fuel spillage from HGV's).
Recent example, in the snow and ice i was driving a Transit tipper towing an Ifor williams trailer.
Going round a rondabout with adverse camber, the transit started to Slide and the trailer was starting to Jacknife.
Simply by easing off the power and counterstearing, then reapplying the power the Vehicle and trailer corrected the skid and everyone lived to tell the tale.
Thats nothing more than putting into practice exactly what i have learned on a skid pan.
i'm not the Speed crazed Lunatic that you are attempting to paint me as, but someone who Enjoys driving & Motorbikes.
Like Witchy, my little and very short Speeding incident on a Bypass with no car in front or behind, no oncoming traffic, no Junctions, not a house or biulding in site (just high grass banks and newly planted trees).
So for approx 1 miles of this 5 mile stretch i have sinned!
AS already said i do not exceed 20,30, 40 or 50mph limits.
I do not tailgate and always leave the correct amount of braking distance.
I am fairly considerate in not trying to hold out other road users , when 2 lanes filter into 1 and i do exactly that allow them to filter in.
how many are guilty of road rage on that one?
If any member on her wishes to improve their roadcraft by taking a track day/Rally sport day.
Or wishes to take advanced driver training, skid pan control then i will willingly point them in the right direction.
To show respect to your views and opinions i too will leave you rep!
 
i would be intrested in motorsport in the NE of UK

wouldnt mind improving my driving skill and also have some fun while being supervised
 
i would be intrested in motorsport in the NE of UK

wouldnt mind improving my driving skill and also have some fun while being supervised

Hi Fes
If you can be a bit nore specific as to you Location, i will post links for you.
That applies to anyone reading this.
How about we organise some track days for DW members?
AS with most of these events, the more people book, the better deal you get!
What do you fancy?

Rallying ,4X4 off road, Skid control,Track day with high Performance Cars.
All the above will be a great adrenaline buzz, but of course in the right place, trained, fully supervised!
In a Safe and Insured eviroment and if anything goes wrong, the Medics & Crash crews are on hand immediately.

Motorsport is all about safety first!
All cars are checked to the highest standards.

If you like the thrill and want to have a go for real, then you need to go down the correct route and get yourself a Motorsport License.

One Good way to get close to the action is to become A Safety Marshall.
These are usually unpaid volunteers, but You get close to the action and get to see events for free.

So what do you think?

Anyone intrested?

And i might have bitten off more than i can chew, but i will do my best to Help.
 
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