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Rural speed limits to be reviewed
By Visordown News on 04/05/2010 12:33:46
50,000 miles of UK roads to come under speed limit review
AROUND 50,000 miles of the UK's rural roads are to have their speed limits reviewed, it has been revealed.Around 25,000 miles of the country's road network have already been reduced in a bid to increase safety; councils around the country
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Speed Triple gets mean
By Andy Stevens on 29/10/2010 10:46:32
With a major service and a few new additions, the Speed Triple looks more street fighter than ever.
I headed up the M1 this week to the Triumph Factory in Hinckley. The Speed Triple was due its 12000 mile major service and the workshop also had some new shiny bits to add to the bike for me.Service intervals are every 6000 miles which is more than
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Discuss: Government Speed Control
By Tim Dickson on 02/12/2010 15:03:10
Tim Dickson is clearly a man who worries a lot. And now he's worried about the government governing our speed. How likely is it?
all to suit. But there's a dark side. The Government is experimenting with automatically speed-limiting bikes via satellite tracking. Is a future of sticking rigidly to strictly enforced limits on the cards?Quite possibly. But why us? Aren
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Burt Munro's Speed Obsession
By Stuart Barker on 10/09/2010 14:16:16
From a small shed in a small town in a small country at the very bottom of the world came an old man and an old bike - to capture the most remarkable world speed record ever
could achieve that one perfect run through the Bonneville timing lights? We tracked down Munro's son, John, in New Zealand, to find out what his father was really like and why he dedicated his life to making offerings to the God of Speed. The pictures
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Trees: the latest speed reducing initiative
By Visordown News on 16/08/2010 08:45:46
Norfolk County Council trials new green anti-speed campaign
TREES are at the centre of a new low cost, speed-reducing initiative Norfolk County Council are hoping will curtail speeding motorists and reduce anccidents.The organisation's road safety wing has found that stategic positioning of trees at certain
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Linked Speed Camera warning voiced
By Visordown News on 16/04/2008 11:02:16
Linked speed cameras that can track a vehicle and work out if they have broken the speed limit at any point during the trip are being tested in the UK.
ACCORDING to reports in the Daily Express newspaper, linked speed cameras that can track a vehicle over long journeys and then work out if they have broken the speed limit at any point during the trip, are being tested in the UK. The linked system
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Coyote speed camera alert system
By Ben Cope on 05/05/2011 11:23:49
Like to ride without worrying about speed cameras? This could be for you
You might not have heared of Coyote, it's a speed camera alert system.They're popular in mainland Europe but they've only recently come to the UK. The whole system is community driven to keep the information as up to date as possible.I've been
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Road Trip - Speed Triple to the Nurburgring
By Andy Stevens on 15/09/2010 15:31:36
Triumphs new Speed Triple gets five laps round the Nordschleife
blogs about the Speed Triple. He also has the SE, small world!Parts of the German countryside are just stunning and as I’ve come to expect with many places in Europe the roads are sweeping, reliably smooth, racetrack like and largely free of traffic. I
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Triumph Speed Triple R review
By Ben Cope on 26/01/2012 02:05:38
Triumph call it the ultimate Speed Triple. We'll be the judge of that
of increased marketing hype and tenuous links to racing, it appears the R now gets splashed around so much that it is to motorcycles what the word 'executive' is to a block of flats.So is the Speed Triple R worthy of its R status? Better suspension? Check. More
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Warning: Speed cameras are here to stay
By Visordown News on 27/07/2010 14:42:12
Shropshire Council will keep static and mobile speed traps, despite new government cutbacks
SPEED CAMERAS are here to stay. That's the message being sent out by Shropshire Council's Road Safety Partership following the announcement the Government are to slash road safety funding.Visordown reported the news this week that speed cameras
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