L plates and speeding

[Lias]

Yea, everyone seems to lose their L plates till they sit their restricted. I felt that I needed mine, as I hade never ever driven on the road, so it was a HUGE, big new experience for me in so many ways . . .
I still go between 90-100 on the motorway withthe L plate, but am actually going to "lose" it this week.

Strange as it may seem, drivers generally seem to act more dangerously when you DO have an L-Plate on.. I swear when I've ridden friends bikes with L plates, and the few days I had an L plate on, cagers were far worse to be around than normal.

[Gremlin]

Strange as it may seem, drivers generally seem to act more dangerously when you DO have an L-Plate on.. I swear when I've ridden friends bikes with L plates, and the few days I had an L plate on, cagers were far worse to be around than normal.

Everybody seems to say this... but I haven't really had too many bad experiences. I have had one car undertake me, but thats about it...

But I haven't ridden without the plate, so maybe it gets even better??

The best suggestion was the someone here said if they are up your arse/ass whatever, just start practising your countersteering...

[mstriumph]

you think YOU have problems? the trumpy is still calibrated in miles per hour!

since when? do you have any proof of this because it's not like they can say "right we're going to change from a 10km/h error range to a 5% error range because everyone's speedo's are accurate now" i know for a fact that my speedo on my old bike was out by about 10km/h because everytime i went through one of those acc things that shows your speed i'd go through at about 60 and it would show up as 51-52ish

[gamgee]

it's someone elses problem now

[gixxer rider]

I tried searching to see if this questions been asked already, but couldn't find anything.
As you all know learner riders are limited at a speed of 70k's, but I was wondering if you would still be fined if say you were riding @ 75 (on an open road with 100 being the limit). In other words what kind of "leniancy" (sp?) do the cops give to this. The reason I ask is everyone keeps telling me that I can legally ride around at 55k's (around town) and that I would not be fined . So if they are correct by telling me this then surely you won't be fined going 5k's over the limit in any situation, or am I just plain wrong?!
BTW, I am completely new to the roads, as have never gotten round to getting my drivers licence - so sorry if this is a dumb question . . .

I'm prertty sure most cop's will give a 5kph tolerence but hope and pray you don't catch him on a bad day.Probably a smack on the hand is all you'll get.