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Yes Marvellous I'm glad also thatyou have slowed down to the maximum speed limit for a car and caravan !

Lets just hope your not using your phone

or texting somebody as well !

Quote: Originally posted by the fox on 01/11/2009

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65 mph is still over the speed limit try talking your way out of that to the copper that pulls you up! £60 please and 3 points talk to the hand mate!!!

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sorry but when starting on a motorway i see the same signs as everyone else, the one that states the maximum speed, now correct me if im wrong ok but it dont say the max speed is............. but we will let you off with a 10% margin anywhere on any of the driving books i have or the signs i have seen, 30 is 30 and 60 is 60 simple as that, if you choose not to follow that advice and then get done for it dont say how hard done by you have been.

Quote: Originally posted by navver on 01/11/2009

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I thought you are allowed 10% + 2 over the limit. So for 60mph you can do 68mph. He was very unlucky to get done at 68mph. Also most speedos read about 3mph over so in theory you should be able to do 70mph indicated.

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stick to the limits then theres no problem...

thought this thread was about fuel consumption anyway ??

The trick is to find a balance.  Yes if I towed everywhere at 45mph the fuel would last a great deal longer, but would take forever to get there.

At 60 mph and above my Shogun when towing tends to use a bit of juice, and I can hear the engine working harder to keep momentum.

However if I set the cruise to 56 to 58 mph the engine is decidedly quieter and uses significantly less juice.

On shorter hauls you dont notice it so much but anything over a couple of hundred miles you do.