Diffing on the motorway

better call saul · 29-09-2014 11:32PM #1

Let's be honest most of us are doing 130 or 140 on the motorway

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 29-09-2014 11:33PM

I am not, I'm in bed, I swear!

better call saul · 29-09-2014 11:36PM

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

I am not, I'm in bed, I swear!

*when driving on the motorway

catallus · 29-09-2014 11:38PM

So you're the prick who likes to drive in the "fast lane"!

Pull over into the driving lane when you see me coming the next time!

Some people!

dgt · 29-09-2014 11:41PM

Please tell me more about this motorway diffin and if possible, a demonstration to accompany the definition....

porsche959 · 29-09-2014 11:46PM

Rule of thumb in the UK, police only prosecute if over 90mph on motorway. In fact if you are not doing 90mph in 'fast' lane, you will get blasted out of it.

Granted, they have mainly proper 4 lane motorways rather than our half-arsed dual carriageway motorways.

porsche959 · 29-09-2014 11:48PM

dgt wrote: »

Please tell me more about this motorway diffin and if possible, a demonstration to accompany the definition....

There you go:

CiniO · 29-09-2014 11:49PM

better call saul wrote: »

Let's be honest most of us are doing 130 or 140 on the motorway

I don't think so.
On many occasions f.e. on M4 between Dublin and Galway when I'm doing 140km/h I'm overtaking 99% of vehicles while I'm being overtaken by 1%.
That rather makes me think that most people drive well below those speeds.

When doing 120km/h I still think I overtake at least 90% of other vehicles, and I'm overtaken only by about 10%.

dgt · 30-09-2014 12:02AM

porsche959 wrote: »

There you go:

Awwww..... I thought it was something like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTeF65qxQxQ

Mycroft H · 30-09-2014 12:04AM

Think the rest of us have a different idea of what diffn is...

Del2005 · 30-09-2014 12:08AM

porsche959 wrote: »

Rule of thumb in the UK, police only prosecute if over 90mph on motorway. In fact if you are not doing 90mph in 'fast' lane, you will get blasted out of it.

Granted, they have mainly proper 4 lane motorways rather than our half-arsed dual carriageway motorways.

In the UK they use a lot more average speed cameras and they do you for going a lot less than 90

Sir Arthur Daley · 30-09-2014 12:09AM

Welding the diff took the challenge out of diffing.

CiniO · 30-09-2014 12:10AM

Del2005 wrote: »

In the UK they use a lot more average speed cameras and they do you for going a lot less than 90

Only average speed cameras in UK I've seen were on road works.
Are they being used also on normal stretches of motorways?
Indeed through UK I've only really travelled on M6 and M1 and M25 and M20 between Holyhead and Dover (or M4 and M25 and M20) so I haven't seen all roads in that country, but only average speed cameras were on road works with speed limit of 50MPH

porsche959 · 30-09-2014 12:11AM

Del2005 wrote: »

In the UK they use a lot more average speed cameras and they do you for going a lot less than 90

On motorways?

dgt · 30-09-2014 12:12AM

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Welding the diff took the challenge out of diffing.

Open diffs never stopped me....

131spanner · 30-09-2014 12:15AM

Finally, I thought, a thread about diffing. Oh well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdBhdEln548

corktina · 30-09-2014 12:53AM

porsche959 wrote: »

Rule of thumb in the UK, police only prosecute if over 90mph on motorway. In fact if you are not doing 90mph in 'fast' lane, you will get blasted out of it.

Granted, they have mainly proper 4 lane motorways rather than our half-arsed dual carriageway motorways.

1 you are likely to get a ticket in the UK at less than 90 if caught in a trap
2 you wont get blasted out of the "fast" lane at less than 90,although a small proportion of drivers will be doing that speed
3 they have very few 4 lane motorways and quite a lot of 2 lane ones still

have you never been there perhaps?

corktina · 30-09-2014 12:55AM

better call saul wrote: »

Let's be honest most of us are doing 130 or 140 on the motorway

That's nonsense. I try to keep to 120 and I pass out far more cars than pass me.

porsche959 · 30-09-2014 01:30AM

corktina wrote: »

1 you are likely to get a ticket in the UK at less than 90 if caught in a trap
2 you wont get blasted out of the "fast" lane at less than 90,although a small proportion of drivers will be doing that speed
3 they have very few 4 lane motorways and quite a lot of 2 lane ones still

have you never been there perhaps?

Yep. I have driven from Holyhead to Poole.

And from Poole to Pembroke.

Admittedly, this was some time back, late nineties, but back then driving at 90-100mph in the inner lane on a four laner was the norm, maybe it's different now.

I will take your word for it that most of UK motorways aren't 4 laners, my experience was mainly M5/M6.

wonski · 30-09-2014 02:23AM

porsche959 wrote: »

Yep. I have driven from Holyhead to Poole.

And from Poole to Pembroke.

Admittedly, this was some time back, late nineties, but back then driving at 90-100mph in the inner lane on a four laner was the norm, maybe it's different now.

I will take your word for it that most of UK motorways aren't 4 laners, my experience was mainly M5/M6.

Things have changed since late 90's. Traffic, cars, police, roads... everything really.

ardle1 · 30-09-2014 02:51AM

better call saul wrote: »

Let's be honest most of us are doing 130 or 140 on the motorway

You do mean MPH, dont you? 0-60 in uner 6sec's..:eek:
Not great quality, copied this from my mates mobile, in his Subi on the M1..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRDhq8KW7Uc

Anjobe · 30-09-2014 08:36AM

porsche959 wrote: »

Yep. I have driven from Holyhead to Poole.

And from Poole to Pembroke.

Admittedly, this was some time back, late nineties, but back then driving at 90-100mph in the inner lane on a four laner was the norm, maybe it's different now.

I will take your word for it that most of UK motorways aren't 4 laners, my experience was mainly M5/M6.

The vast majority of the UK motorway network is 3-lane, with 4-lanes generally just on particularly congested sections around the major cities.

Doing 100 mph on the motorway in the UK is, and would always have been, considered highly excessive and is likely to lead to instant disqualification if caught. The received wisdom there is that the police enforce a motorway limit of 80 mph.

Having said that there always seems to be lots of speeders on the routes to Holyhead and Fishguard/Pembroke, must be people worried about missing their ferry.

CianRyan · 30-09-2014 09:00AM

Mycroft H wrote: »

Think the rest of us have a different idea of what diffn is...

A skewed understanding it seems...
What would you perceive it to be?

The rest of the world would agree with the post you replied to, bar the 9 of you in this thread.
Diffin

Cantona's Collars · 30-09-2014 09:49AM

Gorey bypass is very popular for diffin' there's nearly as much rubber on stretches of the road as there is tarmac.

Special Circumstances · 30-09-2014 10:11AM

CianRyan wrote: »

A skewed understanding it seems...
What would you perceive it to be?

The rest of the world would agree with the post you replied to, bar the 9 of you in this thread.

I'd imagine diffing is quite difficult to do at 130 or 140 on the motor way as mentioned by the op.

Unless he meant 130 or 140 rotations, because I can't connect 130 or 140 SI units of velocity ;-) with any normal understanding of diffing that "we'd all be at"

But if we're just talking rowntrees randoms, then yes I do often be jelly giraffing my snowflake teapot on the ol crocodile hat.

Edit, btw I know you understand diffing to be actual diffing and just misinterpreted mycroft, my rant is aimed at the amount of fail this thread has.

Toyotafanboi · 30-09-2014 10:23AM

zerks wrote: »

Gorey bypass is very popular for diffin' there's nearly as much rubber on stretches of the road as there is tarmac.

living on a local road just off the north gorey exit and holy moly i don't know the people get away with it!

Stepping Stone · 30-09-2014 11:25AM

CiniO wrote: »

Only average speed cameras in UK I've seen were on road works.
Are they being used also on normal stretches of motorways?
Indeed through UK I've only really travelled on M6 and M1 and M25 and M20 between Holyhead and Dover (or M4 and M25 and M20) so I haven't seen all roads in that country, but only average speed cameras were on road works with speed limit of 50MPH

They are mainly used on sections with roadworks but they are extremely common in areas where there are high levels of traffic and congestion. They locally reduce the speed limit and use the average speed cameras to enforce it. The M6 around Birmingham is a good example.

Generally, people don't break the motorway speed limit. There are plenty of cameras, traffic police, etc. Also, motorways are used for long distance commutes, so traffic tends to stick around the 50-60mph region. You wouldn't really be bombing it all the way from London to Edinburgh, would you? Then again, the roads that I am most familiar with are the A1, M1, A6 and the A5. Long distance drivers and heavy traffic.

CathalDublin · 30-09-2014 11:25AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

living on a local road just off the north gorey exit and holy moly i don't know the people get away with it!

Yea, I'd have thought the council would have moved you on by now:eek:

Trojan · 30-09-2014 11:52AM

The last car I had on the motorway was at 3400 RPM @ 110km/h and drinking petrol like it was going out of fashion at that, so I was not doing 130, no chance.

Indricotherium · 30-09-2014 11:57AM

porsche959 wrote: »

Rule of thumb in the UK, police only prosecute if over 90mph on motorway. In fact if you are not doing 90mph in 'fast' lane, you will get blasted out of it.

Granted, they have mainly proper 4 lane motorways rather than our half-arsed dual carriageway motorways.

You have obviously never driven for any distance on a UK motorway.

A lot of them are dreadful. Unlit, lane markings worn off the tarmac, Queues miles and miles long, slow moving traffic, POT HOLES!!

Add to this that they are chronically over capacity and you have a dreadful mix.

Ireland's Motorways are superior to the majority of the UK's in my experience.

for the most part, Motorways in Ireland are less than 10-15 years old, well lit and sparsely used. You literally could not drive on a UK motorway above the speed limit for any lenght of time, because You'd be into the back of a queue of traffic within 5 minutes.

revileandy · 30-09-2014 12:09PM

I drive the M1 each morning southbound and most people are content to do 80-90 kmh in the offside lane while eating breakfast / applying makeup / having a chat on the phone, the usual stuff - you'd be lucky to even hit 120 kmh with some of these clowns.

I've done a few holidays in France, most recently earlier this month & the standard of Motorway driving over there is excellent, it's a pleasure to drive.

EVERYONE drives in the nearside lane except for when overtaking, they floor it, overtake and pull straight back in - so simple and effective.

Diffing on the motorway

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