Elvington near York.Straightliners hold meetings there throughout the year and some of these include "Run What Yer Brung".On the top speed day
you can run as fast as you can and get timed.
They do cars and bikes.
I did one of these days on a bike and it was great fun, did a standing quarter mile in 11.54 seconds on a bog standard Kawasaki Z750.Highest speed I saw was an indicated 140 or so.Some of these top boys (and girls) reach 200mph on two wheels.
straightliners.co.uk
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Don't do it.
Speed kills.
V
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Agree with Vin. What is the point?
I have done about 100mph at least once your honour (clocked at 97mph and went to court fined and had the points) and.... not a thrill. Didn't do it for a thrill. Tried reducing the time to drive from South Wales to Manchester a little :-) Doing 35,000 miles per year and visting family and adding to the week's drive time. During the week did not do that speed - in fact used to smile when I spotted the unmarked BMW 3 series with the police in it near Bootle coming onto the M57.
If you're seeking what it feels like to do 114mph in a straight line. Why bover ;-) Traveling at speed around corners and accelerating quickly surely more fun? Cannot remember if you still have the Toledo.
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Agree with Vin. What is the point?
Why not?
If you're seeking what it feels like to do 114mph in a straight line. Why bover ;-)
To see what my car feels like at its limits.
>>Cannot remember if you still have the Toledo.
Yes, which makes 'Traveling at speed around corners and accelerating quickly surely more fun?' a complete non-starter. :-P
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In a straight line... ish.... what is the point? What limits felt on any car in a straight line???? Assume the limit is it will not go faster :-)
People talk of cars on the limit but not in a straight line.
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114 doesnt feel any different to 100.
same as 100 doesnt feel any different to 90 etc etc etc.
A limit is only "felt" when a car is about to break its limit , ie, handling, braking, cornering etc etc.
Have fun and enjoy by all means but not on the public road please?
Join a car club and you will be invited to all sorts of places where you can drive at 114 without any worries. Try silverstone for instance on a club day when they are training marshalls etc. If any normal road car cant get to its speed limit on there then there is a problem !
Have expereienced silverstone as a co-driver in a rally car and it was most boring experience i seem to remember. Car was flat out round all bends and on straights and was no where near any break away limits. Might as well have been on a treasure hunt! But same car on a tight twisty farm track was way more exciting. Its not speed that excites, not me anyway!
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> 114 doesnt feel any different to 100.
> same as 100 doesnt feel any different to 90 etc etc etc.
Not true. Standard "family" production cars do have different feelings at speed. The laguna felt very planted and solid at higer speeds than it did at lower speeds. The touran however starts to feel a little twitchy at 100mph, but very planted at 90, more so that at 70.
>A limit is only "felt" when a car is about to break its limit , ie, handling, braking, cornering etc e
Agreed - thats my definition of a "limit"
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the m69 is pretty straight for about 15 miles no cops or cameras as far as i recall, last time i used it was to test a honda dhoc 750 kz....agen a suzuki something or other...i won hands down standing quater mile 12.24 seconds
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concur with previous posts about the junction on the m25, 8 down to 7, or 4 down to the A21.
After recent experience of the A14 out of Bury st Edmunds long straight flat road, or how about a nice holiday to the Isle of Man, few restrictions on speed if I remeber.
My personal highest speed, was on the M23 from Gatwick down to the M25 at 4 am, 15+ years ago and it was a tad over the limit
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mss,
You could have a play with this spreadsheet to get a rough idea of how long in both time and distance it will take to approach your car's top speed.
www.gordonmckenzie.co.uk/hj/
Of course, in a mathematical sense, your car can never actually reach its theoretical top speed. Depending upon whether you prefer a torque centric or power crazed view of the world;
a) as you approach top speed the nett force (tractive effort - total drag force) becomes vanishingly small, and, so the acceleration also becomes vanishingly small
b) as you approach top speed, the available power (engine power - road load power) becomes vanishingly small, and, so does the acceleration.
Number_Cruncher
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the last 10 miles of the m69 entering towards leicester is a fantastic place to try high speed runs. i ran a v12 xjs at full throttle for the entire lentgh in the early 90's. ive never seen a camera or police on that stretch.
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That would have been around a 150 mph in one of those !
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i remember the fuel computer saying 4.3mpg. lovely car but cost my boss a large fortune in upkeep when things kept braking
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Don't do it. Speed kills.
At the risk of turning this into another speeding debate (yawnnn - gets ready to move it across to one of the speeding threads) speed itself doesn't kill. Moronic lack of thought kills. Inattention kills. Impact kills. Bad driving kills. Careless pedestrians get killed. But speed itself doesn't kill.
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Reminds me of the Douglas Adams comment about the character that died of an overdose of brick wall taken under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila :)
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Impact kills.
I agree. Just for once, someone has got down to the nub of the matter.
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Obviously Vin was joking when he said this but to anyone that believes it:-
I suggest you stop driving and stick to walking.
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I wish to make it as clear as possible that I was, in the loosest definition of the words and notwithstanding any contrary views as to the accuracy of my judgment on the humour or otherwise of the situation, joking when I said, "Speed Kills".
My sincere apologies to anyone whose irony detection systems failed to lock onto the phrase.
V
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Take your car for a holiday and try it here:
tinyurl.com/2cbdnd
Should be able to get to top speed with that run up.
V
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I read somewhere the local authorities were cracking down on this road after a few accidents.
Porsche do/did some of their high speed testing out there.
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wouldn't fancy doing top whack on that Aussie road........imagine meeting a friendly local 'roo at anything over a hundred
the previous owner of my bike, a mate, let me ride it in the Middle East, when he owned it...but warned me not to go too mad because of camels crossing the road........didn't fancy that much either
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My other half lives in Solihull and i see her most nghts usuallly leaving after 11pm, the m42 is often empty, unless its a sunday night and its rammed? random! I can usually cruise at 120mph and the car feels fine, and people are doing the same or not alot less obviosuly i'm not doing this speed if its raining or cars around, but as you get to junction 1 going west bound down the hill the Saab easisly hits alot higher than this and feels pretty stable.
I'm a great beliver that speed in the wrong hands is dangerous, I class myself as a pretty good driver, i drive alot of miles and if feeling a little tired or in "businees Mode" during the day i often drive alot slower than most.
My car is maintained to the highest levels and tyres are checked and replaced when they are 2mm, I wouldn't even take my proton on the motorway due to fear of somethnig coming off at speed!!
I have also been to court for 86mph in a 50mph, it ws in Bala in wales, clear road for about 3 miles, police parked behind tree in about 1998, 5 points, 1 more and i would have lost my licence!!
Very scary at the time
Jon
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You mean 120kph of course don't you, or 120 leptons or 120 idiotspeedcameras- not 120mph. Otherwise you are incriminating yourself and there have been many cases of the police/cps using this sort of evidence against people. You made a mistake didn't you?
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Oldhand: "there have been many cases of the police/cps using this sort of evidence against people"
Really? That would amaze me. In court, under oath, "I was bragging, where's your evidence?"
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There was a case recently of a man driving a VX220 who was arrested due to bragging about driving at in excess of 150mph on an internet forum. He hasn't been convicted as far as I know.
Just in case the police are reading this: I'd like to state for the record that I've driven in excess of 160mph on the public road.
However as it was not in the UK you can stick the law where it will best fit.
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Ok, in that case, I am stating here formally that I have driven a car on public UK roads at 670mph. At rush hour. In the rain. With my eyes shut. On the wrong carriageway.
Let's see how that looks in court.
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Ok in that case I am stating here formally that I have driven a car on public UK roads at 670mph.
Why did you stay in 4th? :-S
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Vin,
Some people will be along in a minute to have a go at you for breaking the law you know.
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PU without his Mod Hard Hat on !
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Ok in that case I am stating here formally that I have driven a car on public UK roads at 670mph. At rush hour. In the rain. With my eyes shut. On the wrong carriageway.
And I was behind you, flashing my lights, blaring my horn, and you *still* wouldnt get out the way.
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I don't know if it will stand up in court but the person making the posting might find a few unmarked cars in that area around that time of day.
I have read insurance companies also look at these sites though how they tie a username back to a policyholder I've no idea ?
Unless they have some newlabour rights to the data.
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in reply to gmac:
bit off topic but I loved reading about the guy last year that advertised his Astra on e-bay. It was modded with a 2-litre turbo engine but as the advert said '...registered as a 1.4 so cheap insurance'. The pictures included his reg number which went down a treat when a local policeman saw the ad and investigated.
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Brilliant ! There are some brain donors on fleaBay.
The guy selling his dining suite, photographing it from across the room with a mirror in the background and him in his birthday suit is a classic.
Stunningly attractive 20-something women never get caught out like this though, it's always some beer-bellied, middle aged guy.
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It sounds comical doesn't it, but there are quite a few documented cases of the police reading message boards and arresting people as a result of information they themselves have confessed.
Probably less risk of that here for various reasons but imagine a situation where someone uses the same name on many boards or discloses personal information about themselves. It wouldn't be that difficult to cross reference these and be able to build up a circumstancial case. Add to that the way some people crack when in an interview room and I'd advise anyone against making claims they may later regret.........
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Ultimately you can still be accountable to Investigatory Authorities if you coughed anything on here. It would be a reasonably simple process for members to be traced via their registered e-mail accounts which the site could be required to disclose. One of the reasons for the Moderation Regime. Wouldn't want HJ to be implicated in anything would we ?
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>>Wouldn't want HJ to be implicated in anything would we ?
He didn't seem too fussed about showing me how quickly a Veyron he'd stolen got to 200mph :-o ;-P
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You mean 120kph of course don't you or 120 leptons or 120 idiotspeedcameras- not 120mph. Otherwise you are incriminating yourself and there have been many cases of the police/cps using this sort of evidence against people. You made a mistake didn't you?
I've seen people say this before, but surely the police can investigate you, but still need proof that you've actually done it, rather than just boasting. Because, what about and I cannot link to any examples, when someone confesses to a serious crime, they don't just take the confessees word for it do they? They take a statement and look into it make sure it all adds up and the confessee isn't trying to take the rap for Mr Big. Otherwise they could do anybody for anything? How many people would wind up in chockey for boasting? Doesn't bear thinking about!?!
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Sim,
I think you'll find proportionality is everything. If someone admitted to using their car for a crime on here i.e. "I bundled the body of the F**d salesman in the boot of my new Mondeo" and such a case actually existed nationally you may find that the BiB might be interested. But uncorroborated boasts
of exceeding the speed limit would probably draw little interest if a Police Officer happened upon it, I
doubt very much whether the CPS would be at all interested. Chances of successfully convicting someone saying " On Sunday afternoon at 2.00pm I got 163 mph out of my Swigglesworth Mk10 on the A33 near the Mangecastle gyratory system" are slim to non-existent - but say that as a result of a Swigglesworth doing this speed on that day someone had crashed in fright there may be some interest shown. I know my local Police regularly trawl t'internet for intel, check certain networking sites out and tell me that there isn't potentially actionable stuff there.
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I have an old 'wheels' magazine article around here somewhere, they were trying to max out a very expensive Merc sometime in the late ninetys by taking it to the Northern Territory (no speed limits), unfortuantely they hit an emu when approachig maximum speed...it wasnt pretty.
Dont even think if trying it at night, as Westpig says, after dusk the roos come out to play!
StarGazer
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I ve done highway 1 across the Nullabor Plain, and as the previous poster said, if a big red decides to pop out at 100mph+ you are history. In practise its only at dusk, night and dawn they are really active, but you never know. Its a strange road, it induces mind numbness and hallucinations after an hour of no wheel twirling.
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