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New Fri 17 Aug 12 16:19 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - diddy1234
www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/59716/fastest-roads-britain

'The UK's fastest roads have been named, and 70 per cent of them are A-roads not motorways'

Just how does someone manage to get 152mph on an A road ?

Just a note, these are speeds that people have been nicked at.
God knows how fast some people have been driving without getting caught.
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New Fri 17 Aug 12 16:23 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - oilburner
One of them I know well is the A435 near Brum. How they got to 139mph in the shortish stretches between roundabouts, I don't know.

Must have been a superbike or something?
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New Fri 17 Aug 12 16:57 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - Westpig
>> Just how does someone manage to get 152mph on an A road ?

With great ease.
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New Fri 17 Aug 12 17:26 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - Notdoctorchris
Those are the fast roads where you are likely to get caught speeding.
How about a list of those where you are very unlikely to be caught?
Here's my offering:

B6318, aka Military Road, in Northumberland, alongside Hadrian's Wall. No cameras and the police patrols are too busy on the A69 to patrol the B6318.
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New Fri 17 Aug 12 17:34 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - WillDeBeest
It helps that the A435 goes past Redditch. I worked there for one grim year and it's not a place I'd choose to linger.
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New Fri 17 Aug 12 19:12 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - DP
>> It helps that the A435 goes past Redditch. I worked there for one grim year
>> and it's not a place I'd choose to linger.

I nearly died on that road once, in an MG Montego of all things. I wasn't driving. The nutter who was remains the only person who I refuse to ever get in a car with again.

Don't know how fast we were going, as my eyes were firmly closed. Some people drive fast, but well, and you feel relatively safe. Some people drive slowly and badly and you feel vulnerable. This guy drove very fast, and very, very badly.
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New Fri 17 Aug 12 21:10 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - Fullchat
'Just how does someone manage to get 152mph on an A road ?'

Not hard if you have the machinery to do it. Some A roads are dual carriageways. A1 ?
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New Fri 17 Aug 12 21:14 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - WillDeBeest
56 is the de facto limit on the A1. Isn't it, Pat?
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In fact, the the dual carriageway bit of the A435 runs out at Mappleborough Green, just south of Redditch. It's the bit between the M42 roundabout and Maypole on the edge of Birmingham that can be very fast. So I've heard.
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New Fri 17 Aug 12 21:17 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - zookeeper
dont A class duel carriageways have mandotory warp factor 70 mph ?
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New Fri 17 Aug 12 21:18 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - zookeeper
i used to regularly do 120 plus ont m69 ...no one was ever looking
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New Fri 17 Aug 12 23:25 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - Dave_
>> regularly ont m69

You are the fitter from my old place of work AICMFP. Lived in Burbage, worked at Meridian, started super early, drove a VXR Vauxhall.
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New Sat 18 Aug 12 07:31 
 Fastest roads named and shamed - L'escargot
Before the introduction of the 70 mph limit, the late Desmond "Dizzy" Addicott admitted to doing 200 mph testing his racing car on the M1. tinyurl.com/y4x829
(I think I might have mentioned him in an earlier thread ~ my memory is reknowned for being atrocious.)
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