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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Speed gun safety. Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:13:36 -0000 References: <590a462a-d82c-4a97-b8f4-800551f633ec@g12g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> Lines: 41 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.13 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 3b97c7fb.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=QU7i\l7VTcOkC4_T\?nok4Z\0bI9nA2ab4En, MasonS@BP.com says... > > What a unique ride to work today! Cycling along our docks road (40 mph > limit) I need to turn right at a large roundabout. In the near > distance on the left down a side road is WVM wanting to pull out in > front of me. He has more than enough time to pull out but doesn't. > Puzzled, I look back expecting to see a car - but no. Cycling past I > say thanks for hanging back and then spy two cops in hi-vis with speed > guns. > > At this point, I stick my right arm out to signal I want to turn right > at the roundabout. Usually, this is a futile gesture, but with two > cops as star witnesses, a Jag driver now on my right shoulder stands > on his brakes and waves me across the road in front of him. After > coming around the roundabout, WVM turns out to be my cycling buddy who > got me into time trialling who then he gives me a friendly wave! > > Just as I walk into work, the heavens open with freezing rain. > > It makes a change from all of the days of getting wet and ignored and > abused by drivers. :-) > > Oh and my workmate got pulled for doing 46, but they let him off as > they were mainly after drivers having lunchtime drinks.

So in other words the speed gun had absolutely no effect on you, it was just the presence of the cops which made the difference (and I would like to see more traffic cops personally...people get away with the most incredible things these days because they know that as long as they don't speed they'll probably be fine).

You know it was the cops rather than the speed gun which made the difference. If there had been cops just sitting there without a speed gun then the same things would have happened. If there had simply been a static speed camera there then things would have been exactly as if the camera hadn't been there at all (except that motorists would be potentially distracted by the damned thing).

So if your post was supposed to be an endorsement of the safety-related merits of speed enforcement then frankly it's a pretty poor effort. ;-)