[Abe_Froman]

"He informed the police and both men voluntarily attended Milton Keynes police station where they admitted being the riders of the motorbikes, exceeding the speed limit and driving in a manner that could be dangerous."



Rule #1 for beating a speeding ticket: never admit guilt. You don't even have to lie, just don't say anything. I really don't see how they were able to identify the license plates of these guys at 150MPH anyway.



Jail time for speeding is ridiculous. You might be booked for reckless driving in the USA, but there's almost no way you will do time for a first offense unless you insult the judge or something.



Speed limits, especially for freeways, suck. The speed limit for a young man on a ZX-12 should not be the same as for an 85-year old driving a Mercury Medicare sled. I don't care what anybody says and what their reasons are, speed limits suck. They're mostly used as a revenue generating device anyway.

 

[Abe_Froman]

Please refer to my above statement "I don't care what anybody says".



You, sir, may take a long walk off a short pier.

 

[Abe_Froman]

Yes, the government should take more of our money. Why don't you write them a check right now??

 

[Abe_Froman]

I'd say you could blame that more on Ralph Nader than Richard Nixon, but I digress.....

 

[Abe_Froman]

Sorry that in England you have Big Brother staring at you with a video camera all the time. Our population has thus far been sufficiently freedom-oriented to prevent that from happening in the vast majority of municipalities. If they did in fact have them on camera, then I retract the statement, and perhaps the guys did the only thing they could do. However, if that was the case, then #1) England sucks and #2) if the penalites are really that high, then they were pretty stupid to do it (if jail time for gross speed were normal here, I would never go that fast.)

 

[Abe_Froman]

No doubt, Britons have allowed themselves to be declawed and behaviorally regulated by vast myriads of social engineering laws (of course you could easily say that of us to, just not to the same extent perhaps.)

 

[Abe_Froman]

Re: Mr Typo's on the other line

Now calculate the energy potential of an 80,000# tractor trailer combination and see how fast they should be allowed to travel (my guess is 3MPH without doing the math.)

 

[Abe_Froman]

Re: Bikers responsible for anti-moto laws.

GOD BLESS THE USA!!

 

[Abe_Froman]

Absolutely, I hit an indicated 173 (at least 150 actual) going up a hill on my R1 earlier this summer. It is no big secret what we buy these 150hp bikes for. Reasons and alibis and lectures from the bench are moronic. Why this is a news story anyway is beyond me. If this is a story, then the real story is how they didn't know this was happening before. What are they stupid?