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Felonious Crud

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Thinking about Dover/Calais then Lille for night 1. MAF will know the hotel
Sounds good, fella. Lille would push us down a different route, make a nice change. The coast road down to Le Touquet and the hotel there are pretty good, but le Touquet don't got no buzz. And when we try to give it one. Well, naked Welshmen land in bowls of chips.
 

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Sounds good, fella. Lille would push us down a different route, make a nice change. The coast road down to Le Touquet and the hotel there are pretty good, but le Touquet don't got no buzz. And when we try to give it one. Well, naked Welshmen land in bowls of chips.
Lille, would give us an option of Reims to the south or Rouen to the north to avoid Paris. We could always go to a nice restaurant in Troyes...:as003:
 

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By the way, this in The Times today. I wonder if it works?

Motorcyclists and drivers who create a racket with their engines will be fined €135 using “sound cameras” that entered trial service on the outskirts of Paris today.

Barbara Pompili, the environment minister, launched the first automatic acoustic detector on a stretch of winding road in the Vallée de la Chevreuse, a haunt for weekend motorcyclists in rolling woodland 25 miles southwest of the capital. In the coming weeks Paris, Lyons and four other cities will install the devices, which are nicknamed Méduses (jellyfish) because of the set of microphones protruding below them.
 

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By the way, this in The Times today. I wonder if it works?

Motorcyclists and drivers who create a racket with their engines will be fined €135 using “sound cameras” that entered trial service on the outskirts of Paris today.

Barbara Pompili, the environment minister, launched the first automatic acoustic detector on a stretch of winding road in the Vallée de la Chevreuse, a haunt for weekend motorcyclists in rolling woodland 25 miles southwest of the capital. In the coming weeks Paris, Lyons and four other cities will install the devices, which are nicknamed Méduses (jellyfish) because of the set of microphones protruding below them.
It would make an interesting trial to see if a standard exhaust would trigger a fine at the set speed limits.
 

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I wonder how long they'll last....
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The French, characteristically, do not seem enamoured of their new jellyfish. Hopefully they'll be dealt with decisively. Mind you, speed cameras are plentiful and now seemingly tolerated.
 

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By the way, this in The Times today. I wonder if it works?

Motorcyclists and drivers who create a racket with their engines will be fined €135 using “sound cameras” that entered trial service on the outskirts of Paris today.

Barbara Pompili, the environment minister, launched the first automatic acoustic detector on a stretch of winding road in the Vallée de la Chevreuse, a haunt for weekend motorcyclists in rolling woodland 25 miles southwest of the capital. In the coming weeks Paris, Lyons and four other cities will install the devices, which are nicknamed Méduses (jellyfish) because of the set of microphones protruding below them.
From aa snippet on the intro to Radio 2's 12 o'clock show yesterday they were going to talk about that - I gather it may already be installed/trialled some where in Knightsbridge/Kensington and has already raised £'s..................
 

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From aa snippet on the intro to Radio 2's 12 o'clock show yesterday they were going to talk about that - I gather it may already be installed/trialled some where in Knightsbridge/Kensington and has already raised £'s..................
Yes, there was talk of it around those parts of central and west London frequented by gold-wrapped Lambo drivers, itinerant middle-easterners spending the hottest of the desert summer in the cooler climes of London (with their imported Lambos), and other assorted fuckwits that like to deafen residents by screaming up and down the road with the valves set to deaf-max. It'd be interesting to know how effective it's been. I guess covid will have helped keep things more peaceful in any case.

Not that anyone here would ever have been accused, by armed gendarmerie, no less, of maybe being a bit too frisky through quiet, rural French towns. No sir.
 
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And, fortunately, your's will be much quieter when the exhaust gets 'done'.
 

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And, fortunately, your's will be much quieter when the exhaust gets 'done'.
It'll be marginally louder in tw@t mode but more control with the three-way switch: always open, always-closed and standard, where the valves open around 2.5/3k. Bit earlier in sport.
 

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WTF, marginally louder? You obviously sit down to p!ss these days, does your husband?
 

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Still got time to get the wheels balanced, then. They were a bit jiggly at speed last year.

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