Speed limits were introduced into the UK following someone testing a Le Mans Cobra at 180+ on the M1.

The 'best' roads in the UK are those where the limit is policed from the air, e.g. past the Cat_and_Fiddle_Inn

With the weather right now, speed limits are the least of our problems

Cheers
Keith

Well, if they hadn't done it back then, they would have put up speed limits after the first or second season of Top Gear with Clarkson

you aren't going to like our Winter's then ...
only about 8 hours of "light" & often cloudy.

I don't know, some sunny winter days can be quite nice with the low sun. It compares quite well to my previous northern Norwegian 0 hours of daylight and equal amounts of cloud.

What's a "Met"??

I'm not worried about speeding in a car, as I'll probably be ending up buying an economical 4-door car, so nothing sporty or speedy about that. It's the times I'll be on my 600cc and itching to give the wrist a little more twist...

Oh, are there any sportbike buffs around here? I'm also looking for maybe a motorcycle forum that is UK based...

Yeah, I figured how it's used determines its rating and not the size/width of the road

Does that mean you don't know what you're talking about? Lol!

Buff, that bleaky winter is one thing I'm really worried about, especially since winter 2010 will probably see me alone in the UK (planning to get the family over by 2011). Still, I hope to be used to the clouds and gloom by then, and maybe will have a few indoor activities to keep me busy...

The Met is the Metropolitan Police (I assume he wasn't referring to The Met Office who deal with weather lol). We have speeding cameras all over the UK and they get you even if you are 1 mph over the limit and fine you, this makes money for the local police force...

And not only speeding cameras. My GF had a job interview in London so we spent a weekend at a friends house in the south of London. In the morning, I drove her to the tube station and dropped her of. Two weeks later I had to pay 50 pounds because I dropped her off at a bus stop and a CCTV filmed us. I generally don't have aproblem with CCTV but that's just money-making council style.

P.S.: When you don't like speed limits Ice, go to Germany

Well, yeah, London is pretty bad for that kind of thing. They have speed cameras, they have cameras to check whether buses (and buses only) are using the bus lanes on weekdays, you have overzealous parking wardens of whom the general consensus is that they are all lying in wait to ambush you for the five seconds you take to park up and post that letter before driving off again... Oh, and the wheel clampers too.

Course, once you get north of the Watford Gap, things should be a bit less rigid than they are here in Fortress London.

Is there anything south of the Watford Gap?