Mother f***ing speed bumps..

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:03 pm

Yip welcome to my world, they are all over the place down in sunny gwent, even the emergency services are complaining about them but nothing seems to get done. I blame the civic owners for the reason they were installed in the first place

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:29 pm

We've past the speed bump phase down here it seems... Recently two of the three small villages I drive through on my way to work are having chicanes put in. All in completely ridiculous places as well. The first one you get to is right on a corner. You can only see that it's clear once you're right up to it and even then you can't hang about going around it otherwise you're going to get mashed on the wrong side of the road. Then if 5 cars in each direction approach the second chicane at the same time the fifth car in each direction prevents the first car from getting around their chicane

The fourth chicane again is on a corner, so you can't hang about.

Honestly a complete TOOL mapped those out! I have no clue how they think they're a good idea anyway... They force cars on to the wrong side of the road and blatantly encourage people to speed up to get around them if they think they can squeeze through before the oncoming car gets there!

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:36 pm

pfft, come to cheltenham some time in the last 10 years

the council put some speed lumps on a road and some guy tore his sump off on one a week later. the council told him to drokk off as his car was lowered and they were made for stock cars. A day later a brand new stock SLK tore its sump off on the same road... did they alter the bumps?

no

that was years ago. Its got worse sine imo. I moved out partly for the roads.

Post by **paul bristol uk** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:51 pm

Bradley Stoke is full of them and my Soarer has been slammed so its a rough ride. South Glos have been stupid though as there is a gap between carriageways so the answer is slow down until there is a gap in oncoming traffic and then boot it in to the space in the middle.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:01 pm

if you hit the lumps at 60mph you dont feel them

just dont do it in your own car init.

Post by **Donald** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:11 pm

The weird cushion type ones are the worst. You either grind everything going over them normally or you look and feel like a total rhubarb when you go along the middle of the road to avoid them

taz8520 · Post by **taz8520** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:30 pm

To may speedbumps near my current location, I put a sticker on the back of my lude to let drivers behind know I need to drive very slow over the bumps

BMCC · Post by **BMCC** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:25 am

F*cking speed bumps! A major pain for mainly no f*cking reason. They put in a few speed bumps round the mother in laws but they made them too tall and a bus broke it drive shaft after getting marooned on top of one. Buses stopped running in that area and about 2 weeks later they lowered the f*uckers instead of removing them

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:03 am

they are absolutely useless they only affect people who care about there cars they don't slow down anyone else taxis round here fly over them at speed 4x4's don't seem to notice them car thieves don't care really who do they slow down that's right drokking me!!!

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:18 am

tramroadmotors wrote:...I blame the civic owners for the reason they were installed in the first place

Funny you should say that! We didn't have half as many speed bumps down here until the latest batch of 17 year olds got themselves driving licences, 1.5 one wheel drive Civics with no suspension, broadway rear view mirrors, a million stickers, Cheery Bomb exhausts and 45degree camber..