Swiss speeding fines
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Probably as much as we hate being caught at those rates!
It’s close on £100 and three points for 24 mph in a twenty in London E1. That is on the same stretch of road where bikermates and untaxed / uninsured Deliveroo scooters and / or hyped up electric bicycles:
A. Ignore the double white lines
B. Ignore the keep left bollards
C. Fuck off the residents with their open exhausts, banging off the rev limiter
D. Flout no number plates
E. Ignore the red lights
Does Tower Hamlets / plod do anything about it? Do they fuck…. But a speed camera….. kerching.
Your point is OP?
A. Ignore the double white lines
B. Ignore the keep left bollards
C. Fuck off the residents with their open exhausts, banging off the rev limiter
D. Flout no number plates
E. Ignore the red lights
Does Tower Hamlets / plod do anything about it? Do they fuck…. But a speed camera….. kerching.
Your point is OP?
serve you right for going to Switzerland in the first place.
Just to resurrect this (and perhaps put 3 points or a speed awareness course in perspective)…
I just read that a French businessman has been snapped speeding in Lausanne doing 77kmh in a 50
as fines are “means” tested, he’s been handed a fine of…. Chf90,000
I just read that a French businessman has been snapped speeding in Lausanne doing 77kmh in a 50
as fines are “means” tested, he’s been handed a fine of…. Chf90,000
Why not just abide by the speed limits there for a reason even if you don’t agree
bike seized at roadside
Of course it is, but rarely a good one.
I attended a council meeting on road safety recently and had to listen to them discussing making half of the county even slower than now, lots of reasons, less pollution (doubt that makes fuck all difference) less noise (is the noise problem the law abiding or the twats with illegal exhausts that law enforcement do fuck all about) and on of my favourites was that the slower they make us all drive the more likely we are to go on the bus.
Cannot remember anything to do with Road Safety cropping up....
....but next time you wonder why a nice open stretch of road that was a 60 is now a 40, it's probably because that is about all the bus can get up to, so best you hop on that next time.
Those making the policies are typically out of touch, almost certainly not ridden a motorcycle or driven a truck in their life, and without a doubt never taken advanced training, but they probably identify as a gay toaster, which makes them perfectly suitable for the job.
As for Switzerland, the speed traps are almost exclusively on the straight bits, and often on the approach to a nice set of twisties, but avoiding eye watering fines means it can be difficult to get a nice flow on a modern bike, you can enjoy the curves, but as you exit one curve you need to immediately brake as you get upright - which is fine when it is for the next curve, but a chore when it is simply to try and avoid a ticket on the following straight.
It can be a right chore on longer straight sections, which is why I much prefer the French Alps, Vercors, Tarn Gorge as you can just ride what I would call "normally", wafting along with a nice flow and unless you go a bit bonkers on the straights nothing worse than a @£100 fine is likely to happen.
A timely notice as I'll be entering Swiss roadspace later today. As someone who plods on straights, but loves the twisty stuff, I shall have to keep myself in check for the day. I shall pretend I have Miss Daisy on the back.
All of this why there are loads of Swiss registered bikes and sports cars in the French Alps. Every weekend they all like to ride enthusiastically on the French passes and who can blame them.
Have fun going up (and down) on the passes themselves. Be very mindful of the speed limit when down in the valley and crossing small towns. Cameras are mostly in there.
There is still less speed cameras than in the UK.
For comparison: 52 in a 30 (on a three lane stretch of road) in London costed me about 1300 quid if we include solicitor's costs and all.
As per Mr er-minio above. Worked out at 48 in a 30 coming off a lovely mountain into a village which was still a long way off but hey ho silly me. That was early August and the first I knew of it was a letter from the postman, "special delivery" by hand on December 23rd. I just signed for it as I thought it was Christmas related. Had I known or seen the letter (I should have asked to see it) I would have refused it. Cost me £735. 
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