Don't leave home without it!....lesson learned the hard way today!

[ted]

Originally Posted by 2porscheguy

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 into the trap.

[Danimal16]

Originally Posted by ted

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 into the trap.

Get the remote unit and they will really blast by.

[masraum]

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]

Originally Posted by look 171

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]

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]

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

[wdfifteen]

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by red-beard

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

[red-beard]

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]

There changed it James

[red-beard]

I understood the sarcasm, but I was serious.

[Buckterrier]

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]

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]

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

[masraum]

Originally Posted by livi

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

Yeah, but your country is small and snow covered, so that makes sense.

Originally Posted by red-beard

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).

Originally Posted by cairns

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]

Originally Posted by 2porscheguy

Totally TRUE!....however, why do we own and love driving our Porsches?

Over compensating?

[JoeFic]

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]

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.