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Teds new project a CB500 K1 mostly version 0.5 circa 1972.
K2-K6:
Come on Roo, you could have got it accurate at 74.8 tick tock tick tock.....waiting. aah now you've got it ! Or 85.3 or 91.6 in the outside lane to tidy things up a bit.
Or indeed 99.6 and just under automatic ban level ;D
Laverdaroo:
Never had a decimalpoint beforeif I'm honest, they were obviously on three shredded wheat that day. If they're gonna start doing decimal points it completey takes the fun and guesswork out of the affair!
I repeat.........Miserable buggers ;D
Oddjob:
What happened to the guide line of 10% accuracy in speedos, the Police always used to say we allow 10% so you should have been ok up to 77mph.
Nurse Julie:
--- Quote from: Oddjob on October 15, 2022, 04:55:11 PM ---What happened to the guide line of 10% accuracy in speedos, the Police always used to say we allow 10% so you should have been ok up to 77mph.
--- End quote ---
A lot of Police forces, including here in Lincs have recently done away with, or are doing away with the 10% rule. If the speed limit is 30, they say that is the maximum speed and you should be under it anyway, not 10% over.
The 10% rule was only a recommendation anyway, which is fine if its a real Poice person that catches you but all these automatic speed trap cameras can't use their judgement.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
The 10 % rule was written into the Construction & Use regulations decades ago - effectively saying a vehicles speedometer had to be accurate within 10 %. This you means you have to exceed the 30 mph limit by 3 mph to commit an offence.
What causes confusion is they have deducted the. 10% from the figure already. Similarly the drink drive limit is 35 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 ml of blood - but only prosecute at 40 or above - the exception might occur in the case of a fatal accident when you might blow 38 on the machine when in theory they could go for impairment due to alcohol rather than over the prescribed limit.
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