12-01-2023, 07:35 AM
Nine pages of really good comments and insight into the eternal challenges of speeding. All the logic is right, most of the arguments too. What I am missing is the human dimension. We are not rational operators in in physical world. If we wanted to get safely from A to B ... and nothing else, there was no better way than a hike. Have you ever seen an accident between two birds in mid-air, with one of them falling from the sky - dead ? No, you haven't, evolution designed them (forgive the word design in ocntext) soft enough for a collision at "normal" speed. The same is true for the human body. Pedestrians rarely kill each other "by bumping" into one another. But add armour, bumpers, metal engines ... and accelerate stuff to 10x or 100x the body's natural speed and people get hurt or die. This IS what this emotional beast inside your head wants. We know this, the people who invented the car knew it, the people who invented the airplane knew it. And all their passengers knew it from day one. Everybody boards happily, a Concorde or a Titanic, looking for some fun.
That is why no speed cam, no LEO, no road-sign will reach every rider, all the time. Each one of you loving his racing machine, and saying "I do always go by the rules" is ... kidding himself. If s/he was, and if he is under 60 (just a guess, may be it's 75 ?) he wouldn't buy, ride, speed his motorcycle.
This is not to say that statistically you may obey 70, 80 or 99% of the time. By personal disposition or training, but whenever somebody utters the words "never" or "always" it is a lie before the pressure waves have left your lips.
That is why no speed cam, no LEO, no road-sign will reach every rider, all the time. Each one of you loving his racing machine, and saying "I do always go by the rules" is ... kidding himself. If s/he was, and if he is under 60 (just a guess, may be it's 75 ?) he wouldn't buy, ride, speed his motorcycle.
This is not to say that statistically you may obey 70, 80 or 99% of the time. By personal disposition or training, but whenever somebody utters the words "never" or "always" it is a lie before the pressure waves have left your lips.