How long to drive from Bristol to London?
- Thread starter madzone
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Ah yes, but as any fule kno the roads are totally safe as long as you're staying below the speed limit! It's only when you go 1mph over that limit that the Armco suddenly leaps in front of you and the road suddenly becomes a maze of twisty passages, all alike, full of otters on bicycles and small babies happily playing in the fast lane.
I see it happening all the time. The only known cure is a flat cap, string-backed driving gloves and driving an Austin 1100 at 40mph on the motorway. We should be grateful to those selfless individuals who do this on our behalf.
Someone making the roads a safer place, yesterday:
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
As a general rule:
1) Depends on where in London (ok, Brixton)
2) Depends on the time of day
3) Depends on how well you know the roads
1) Depends on where in London (ok, Brixton)
2) Depends on the time of day
3) Depends on how well you know the roads
Oh noez. JTG thinking I'm a div! I might as well kill myself now...
To be mildly serious for a moment - JTG, you've gone right off the deep end for no reason. I think you've seen someone (well, two people now) admitting driving at ridiculous speeds, come to some kind of snap judgement about what that makes them, and gone off on one. I'm taking the piss out of you because I know how far wide of the mark you are, at least as far as I'm concerned, and because what you appear to be doing is leaping on any chance to sit in judgement on someone for doing something of which you disapprove. Well, stop the presses, but, actually, I don't approve either. I've done it once or twice in my life, and will probably never do it again. I don't need a lecture from some miseryguts on the Internet who's jumping to all kinds of conclusions about me on the basis of 40 words I've written.
Nor do I get the impression that Madz is exactly boasting that she's some kind of Speed Rebel as a matter of routine. We've all done silly, crazy things. Get over it. I expect that even you have, though obviously you've painted yourself into a bit of a corner as far as admitting it now is concerned.
And, for goodness' sake, grow a bit of tolerance. You might find yourself less often up to your neck in it if you take a moment before jumping in with both feet because you think you know where someone's coming from...
madzone
Physically unfavourable
Will googlemaps tell me how long it'll take to get somewhere? I didn't know it did thatwho knew this could turn into a bunfight?
madz you should've just looked it up on googlemaps like a normal person.
Mind you, it's still quicker to ask on here 
Will googlemaps tell me how long it'll take to get somewhere? I didn't know it did that
Googlemaps does, yes. My experience is that it's generally fairly pessimistic, especially over shorter distances, but it may be that it's taking the otters into account.
As a route planner, Googlemaps is my first choice, though the quality of the directions isn't great, and it doesn't know about the massive great long, thin one-way system in my town.
But it cares about teh otters, which is all that really matters.
Andrew Hertford
Chocolate Jesus
I'm relieved you don't make a habit of it Agnes and I withdraw the word 'prat' that I chucked your way earlier.
But next time I'm driving to Bristol over night with my kids asleep in the back, and I start to pull out to overtake a lorry after checking there's nothing coming up behind, only to find some fuckwit is coming up on my arse doing a ton a few seconds later, or next time I read about yet another family wiped out because someone thought they had the road to themselves, or made the stupid mistake of believing that without advanced training they were capable of controling a car at high speed, then I promise I'll try not to be so 'pious' as you put it.
But next time I'm driving to Bristol over night with my kids asleep in the back, and I start to pull out to overtake a lorry after checking there's nothing coming up behind, only to find some fuckwit is coming up on my arse doing a ton a few seconds later, or next time I read about yet another family wiped out because someone thought they had the road to themselves, or made the stupid mistake of believing that without advanced training they were capable of controling a car at high speed, then I promise I'll try not to be so 'pious' as you put it.
Andrew Hertford
Chocolate Jesus
Ah yes, but as any fule kno the roads are totally safe as long as you're staying below the speed limit! It's only when you go 1mph over that limit that the Armco suddenly leaps in front of you and the road suddenly becomes a maze of twisty passages, all alike, full of otters on bicycles and small babies happily playing in the fast lane.
I see it happening all the time. The only known cure is a flat cap, string-backed driving gloves and driving an Austin 1100 at 40mph on the motorway. We should be grateful to those selfless individuals who do this on our behalf.
Someone making the roads a safer place, yesterday:
Who the fuck gave you permission to post that?! Must've been taken after I lost my driving gloves.
Thanks, I appreciate that.
You must have missed the bit where I said I slowed down every time I saw someone else's lights. While driving at 120mph on a British motorway is not exactly the height of responsibility, even in the darker watches of the night, I don't feel that I set out to drive as irresponsibly as I possibly could! I'm sure my IAM instructor blokey would not have been particularly impressed with my adherence to speed limits, I feel that he might not have been underwhelmed by my observation and awareness.
Ah, I assumed that photo was not taken on the motorway, and that you'd only be wearing the gloves for high-speed (ie 40mph) driving
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
1 hr 30 mins to 2hrs depending on time of day etc..plus another 45 mins to get to Brixton if you are taking the south circular.
madzone
Physically unfavourable
How can you do that if you're splattered across the central reservation? Because that WILL happen every time you drive over 70mph
Like you are ready to life imprisonment if you splatter someones kids across the central reservation?
Or you or your estate are willing to pay the cost of the emergency services?
I can't be arsed to do that maths right now but at some speeds by the time you see an obstruction or you see a vehicle approaching at speed there is not or barely the time to react before impact. On a railway you can have tht with extra long bloc sections, you don't have that on a motorway.
madzone
Physically unfavourable
There were no other cars on the motorway, it was 3am. If a vehicle was approaching me at speed on the motorway it would have been going the wrong way.
I'd say it's probably not worth continuing this argument! If you were boasting that you did 120mph every time you went out on the road, I think Isambard might have a point. You haven't - and presumably you don't - so he's trying to hold you to account on an ongoing basis for something that happened as a one-off, and which didn't result in a terrible smash.
That's why I've bowed out of this rather silly "debate", anyway.
I don't think there's anything I've said on the matter (can't speak for madz) which might suggest I think otherwise. Which makes your apparent desire to ram the point home just a little tedious. I suppose you've never, ever done anything fuckwitted in your life, then?doing something fuckwitted becomes no less fuckwitted just because there were no bad consequences on that occasion
you're both fuckwits
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
true, takes me about 3 hours to drive from Hackney to Bath with no stopping, and at least an hour, sometimes more depending on the time, to get out of london
I used to do Greenwich to Bristol in 2-2.5 hours in my Gti.
I must have killed about 15 or so families, made 20 or 30 artics crash (costing the economy um.....at least 5 million) Killed a dog, killed a cat and spun 360 degrees at least 17 times. All in a period of 2 years
NOT
But I was going at least a ton and was overtaken as if I was doing 70.
The fact is cars are faster, stop quicker and safer and the average speed of motorway travel is vastly higher than 70mph.
Calling someone a name for doing 100mph on a motorway seems to be a bit over reactionary if you ask me.
I must have killed about 15 or so families, made 20 or 30 artics crash (costing the economy um.....at least 5 million) Killed a dog, killed a cat and spun 360 degrees at least 17 times. All in a period of 2 years
NOT
But I was going at least a ton and was overtaken as if I was doing 70.
The fact is cars are faster, stop quicker and safer and the average speed of motorway travel is vastly higher than 70mph.
Calling someone a name for doing 100mph on a motorway seems to be a bit over reactionary if you ask me.
So much to poke fun at...
You're the ones who have over protested the point somewhat. I ignored this for a while and came back to find you both still flapping around being tedious with your own self justifying bollocks.
The last point is somewhat redundant, having made mistakes of your own does not mean you're permanently excluded from passing comment on other people's.
Here's how it could have been:
Me - that was a bit divvy of you both
You - yeah, shan't do that again
But you both squawked for fucking Britain about it
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
We've all done silly, crazy things. Get over it. I expect that even you have./QUOTE]
He put drugs up his bum!
What stopping distances would those be? The ones of an Austin Maxi (or equivalent) as still used by the highway code? Or those of a modern car fitted with ABS and Traction control etc?
Also weren't motorways originally designed with no speed limit in mind as there wasn't one.
I'm all for slowing down on A roads, in cities and in fact all other roads it does make sense. But at 3 'o'clock in the morning on a 3 lane motorway with next to no traffic I think it is perfectly reasonable to be doing a ton!
I don't. I knew I was doing something "unreasonable" at the time - a fact that the Pious Squad seem to have conveniently overlooked.
As for Crispy's point...
I recall a highways person once telling me that motorway curves are designed in such a way that a vehicle can travel at 130mph and have sufficient forward visibility to be able to stop within the limit of vision. Which makes sense, if you think that police pursuit cars do travel at that kind of speed. No, JTG et al, that doesn't mean I'm advocating that everyone should do 130mph just because we can - it is merely a comment in response to Crispy's remarks.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
AFAIK the stopping distances given in the Highway Code are much older than a Maxi! They're based on tests conducted in the early 1960s, using a Ford Anglia with drum brakes all round and on crossply tyres...
madzone
Physically unfavourable
And I wasn't doing 120
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