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ted 06-27-2013 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by 2porscheguy (Post 7519742)
This begs the question....do you fellow Pelicans....Peter you included... ALWAYS obey the speed limit? Is there a thread on PPOT that deals with this topic?

I try to hold it at 7mph over the freeway limit on long drives, with a V1.
It saved me from a couple freeway radar traps last weekend.
It looks so obvious when my windshield mounted v1 lights up and I move out of the fast lane and let other cars speed :p into the trap.

Danimal16 06-27-2013 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ted (Post 7519953)
I try to hold it at 7mph over the freeway limit on long drives, with a V1.
It saved me from a couple freeway radar traps last weekend.
It looks so obvious when my windshield mounted v1 lights up and I move out of the fast lane and let other cars speed :p into the trap.

Get the remote unit and they will really blast by.

masraum 06-27-2013 05:53 PM

The V1 is a permanent fixture in my car. On the weekends if we take the other vehicle, I'm less likely to speed.

2porscheguy 06-27-2013 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by look 171 (Post 7519861)
That's still within city limit? On the eastern side of the city?

I found most people drive the speed limit in Calgary. We were there for 3 weeks last summer and most were very polite drivers. Down here, when the freeway opens up, we are doing 10-15 over.

Actually look 171 it's just past the city limits on the west side of Calgary, in the Municipal District of Rockyview....our house is about 2 km from where I got nabbed!

Funny but everybody else in Calgary says that we are THE WORST drivers!....except for me of course!;)

Alex

mikesride 06-27-2013 08:39 PM

Funny, years ago I got my radar detector confiscated in Alberta.....are they still doing that? (I never replaced it, they all use laser around here now....one quick click and your pulled over :( )

livi 06-28-2013 01:03 AM

Never owned a radar detector. Never got a ticket. Stick to the speed limits and drive like an old lady. :D

wdfifteen 06-28-2013 02:01 AM

Since I went into semi-retirement I'm no longer in much of a hurry. I don't even know where my V1 is right now. Back when I was in a hurry the best run I ever made was Sterling, Colorado to Lincoln, Nebraska - 360 miles in 4 hours in a Mercedes E-class.

Chocaholic 06-28-2013 03:31 AM

Speeding in a straight line? Don't need a Porsche for that. If you're not late, and there's no curves, why speed?

red-beard 06-28-2013 04:09 AM

86 in a 60. You we're doing almost 50% faster than the speed limit. I think you need to slow down a bit.

Buckterrier 06-28-2013 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by red-beard (Post 7520406)
86 in a 60. You we're doing almost 50% faster than the speed limit. I think you need to slow down a bit.

James, that's kilometers. Isn't it like going 40mph in a 30 :D

red-beard 06-28-2013 04:37 AM

In English units, he was doing more than 16MPH faster than the 37.5 speed limit. It would be like doing almost 60 in a 40.

Buckterrier 06-28-2013 04:44 AM

There changed it James ;)

red-beard 06-28-2013 04:46 AM

I understood the sarcasm, but I was serious.

Buckterrier 06-28-2013 04:51 AM

I have my own issues. Got a ticket in NY after leaving Watkins Glen a couple of weeks ago. Just sending it in this morning. No fine amount on tic. You send in said ticket the judge looks at it. If he got laid the night before maybe he'll be nice. If not he can tuck it to you I guess. So I have no idea the fine amount.

135 in a 104 zone LOL

cairns 06-28-2013 05:24 AM

Australia is very bad for tickets. The speed limits are incredibly low and they have more GATSOs than the UK. Every time I've visited I got one.

stealthn 06-28-2013 03:47 PM

Ah yeah, I was in Cali a couple of months ago and couldn't believe how they drive, fast and close. Here everyone is just slow.....
I love to open her up when it's safe to do so but there is no way I would drive the way I saw in Santa Clara, I was constantly hitting the brakes in the back seat of the cab :D

masraum 06-28-2013 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by livi (Post 7520330)
Never owned a radar detector. Never got a ticket. Stick to the speed limits and drive like an old lady. :D

Yeah, but your country is small and snow covered, so that makes sense. ;) :D


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Originally Posted by red-beard (Post 7520406)
86 in a 60. You we're doing almost 50% faster than the speed limit. I think you need to slow down a bit.

What? Why? That's SOP here in Houston (where we have the worst drivers of anywhere in the US that I've ever driven including Boston).

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Originally Posted by cairns (Post 7520499)
Australia is very bad for tickets. The speed limits are incredibly low and they have more GATSOs than the UK. Every time I've visited I got one.

Which is crazy, as big and empty as that place is, you'd think that you'd have unlimited autobahn type roads.

cashflyer 06-28-2013 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by 2porscheguy (Post 7519742)
Totally TRUE!....however, why do we own and love driving our Porsches?

Over compensating?

JoeFic 09-06-2013 11:01 AM

I've been using a Escort Solo S3 in my cars since my last speeding ticket 4 years ago. I never leave home without it now and no speeding tickets since. A 911 is just too much of a cop magnet in the NY/NJ/CT Tri-State area. But then again I now keep my speed less than the speed limit plus 15 mph! :-)

Geronimo '74 09-06-2013 11:50 AM

No radar detectors here.
When they catch me, i just pay up. I don't really care as long as they don't zap me on an open stretch of highway. That could get really expensive, really fast....
Never been caught in the 911, lots of times in the company car.


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