20 mph speed limit signs are a joke!

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  • @iandeumayne-jones1557
    @iandeumayne-jones1557 Рік тому +63

    I think the Roman Legions marched quicker than 20 mph😂

    • @davecooper3238
      @davecooper3238 Рік тому +1

      Pretty sure the Romans marched at nowhere near 20mph.

    • @mick0846
      @mick0846 4 місяці тому

      ​@davecooper3238 the chariots did

  • @InTheShedUK
    @InTheShedUK Рік тому +38

    I have also noticed there are a lot of changes in speed limits along the same pieces of road 60 to 40 to 50 to 30 to 60 to 40 to 20, each one only a few hundred yards long, which means you are constantly looking at your speedo... Rather than looking at the road, where all the hazards are!

  • @TedSwerve
    @TedSwerve Рік тому +36

    I see why they call it the Roman road. Last resurfaced in 400 AD.

  • @TheYorkie1954
    @TheYorkie1954 Рік тому +50

    not only Wales, our local government had a public consultation in which a vast majority were against a 20 limit so they just ignored that and did it anyway.

    • @michaelfraser5723
      @michaelfraser5723 Рік тому +3

      they can't ignore the ones who pay their mortgages

    • @TheYorkie1954
      @TheYorkie1954 Рік тому

      they have done, see what the next election brings, corrupt tories or couldn't care less labour@@michaelfraser5723

    • @p--n
      @p--n Рік тому +2

      Settled International Case Law...
      CRUDEN v. NEALE, 2 N.C. 338 (1796) 2 S.E. 70
      "There, every man is independent of all laws, except those prescribed by nature.
      He is not bound by any institutions formed by his fellowman with out his consent.”

    • @stewartellinson8846
      @stewartellinson8846 Рік тому +2

      People never want to change - sometimes you have to tell them. People like smoking and doing stupid stuff., this is the same; asking people if they want to be safer is a bad idea because people think they're fine when they're not. We need telling.

    • @p--n
      @p--n Рік тому +3

      @@stewartellinson8846 children in adult bodies.

  • @andrewmcpoland9040
    @andrewmcpoland9040 Рік тому +40

    So they install new signs in the hedgerow, without trimming the foliage, so you can't see them even if you wanted to!?🤯

    • @michaelfraser5723
      @michaelfraser5723 Рік тому

      those signs are from snobs stealing public access and using the public roads for themselves; STOP THEM!

    • @Volcanicbrown1878
      @Volcanicbrown1878 Рік тому +1

      If you slowed down you would see them!!!🤣🤣😁

    • @Flossy_tops
      @Flossy_tops Рік тому +6

      Laughable just like the bonkers left wing ideology 🤣

    • @rotay4900
      @rotay4900 Рік тому +1

      It's a different department who cuts the foliage back!🤗

    • @Flossy_tops
      @Flossy_tops Рік тому

      @rotay4900 departments, by the way, have all had their own cutbacks 🤣

  • @philhawley1219
    @philhawley1219 Рік тому +12

    I hope my neighbours in Cymru follow the example of the Londoners in using their cordless angle grinders against these stupid signs .

    • @MDM1992
      @MDM1992 Рік тому +4

      Oh we will, and failing that i will buy a motorcycle and obscure the plate from cameras, not like the police will catch me through the 20mph traffic blocking their path is it lol

  • @MrDucatiPenigaleV4s
    @MrDucatiPenigaleV4s Рік тому +12

    I used to live up at pimpsait crugybar now in Bwlchllan. I know that road and the little train station. From what I have seen most people are sticking to the 30mph and ignoring the 20, it's stupid they want to control you and get cars and bikes off the roads. Nothing to do with climate or safety.

  • @norsehall309
    @norsehall309 Рік тому +21

    G'day Paul, in Australia that type of road would be signed with, "travel at a safe speed and a animal warning for what's in the area, 20 Miles an hour, bloody mad, what next walking only? Cheers mate.

    • @jjrider6758
      @jjrider6758 Рік тому +6

      Don't laugh mate.. walking, cycling or almost non-existent public transport is EXACTLY what's coming next in the UK..

  • @baronlowie
    @baronlowie Рік тому +7

    We've got two of those 20 mph signs at the top of our close here in England, "possibly 80 yards long," so helpful.

  • @ogasi1798
    @ogasi1798 Рік тому +10

    i did some trails up wales last week and the roads between were absolute hell , cyclists in the way of cars, cars in the way of bikes, cars in the way of walkers, everyone in each others way - just hell - almost like that was the plan from the start, make everyone hate each other that little bit more so you aren't paying attention to the real issues being played out - this 20mph shi7e has to be removed - FFS people, use your heads when you vote

  • @AustinArto
    @AustinArto Рік тому +3

    Nearly ignored this, and then saw that lovely old Mountain Cub.

  • @raybeaumont7670
    @raybeaumont7670 Рік тому +2

    Nice little Cub there Paul. My first bike - 1962. Those were the days, but I'm too old to remember the buggers! Most folks living here in The Rhondda have short memories about speed limits, too.

  • @petenikolic5244
    @petenikolic5244 Рік тому +8

    Wont be long before the Stylh saws come out and a lot of scrap iron on the market . Blade runners for silly signs needed .
    I got a sad trip into wales in a few days time to Rhydlewis area for a funeral if Drakeford costs me more fuel he WILL be getting the bill that is fact

    • @paulhenshaw4514
      @paulhenshaw4514  Рік тому

      I spent a lot of time at Rhydlewis, many years ago ...

  • @bsa_brummie7775
    @bsa_brummie7775 Рік тому +8

    "That's God telling us we can go as fast as we want LOL" You should have been on the A65 Thunderbolt 👍

  • @DrRobert7898
    @DrRobert7898 Рік тому +12

    How strange not to put the speed signs at each end of the lane. I wonder if somebody complained about noisy motorcycles riding down the road and put the closed signs there 😂😂

  • @UncleLongbeard
    @UncleLongbeard Рік тому +4

    Those new limits are really out of this world. The Welsh budget hole needs to be massive I assume, but this you showed us today is another level of nonesense.

  • @iandeumayne-jones1557
    @iandeumayne-jones1557 Рік тому +11

    Plus, that so called closed road has a better surface than any of our Shropshire roads

    • @petenikolic5244
      @petenikolic5244 Рік тому

      You aint far out there althou here market drayton area they are not too bad

  • @frankmarkovcijr5459
    @frankmarkovcijr5459 Рік тому +29

    It's amazing how many British motorcycles have out lasted so called superior Japanese motorcycles.

    • @paulhenshaw4514
      @paulhenshaw4514  Рік тому +5

      Isn't it just!

    • @volt8684
      @volt8684 Рік тому +2

      Not in worldwide terms

    • @stewartellinson8846
      @stewartellinson8846 Рік тому +5

      maybe because the japanese ones were more reliable so were used harder for longer and the British ones also had the advantage of a preserving coat of engine oil?

    • @paulhenshaw4514
      @paulhenshaw4514  Рік тому +4

      Japanese stuff wears out and breaks down, too.

    • @frankmarkovcijr5459
      @frankmarkovcijr5459 Рік тому +3

      @@paulhenshaw4514 You can get spare parts for old British motorcycles but not for old Japanese ones.

  • @patthewoodboy
    @patthewoodboy Рік тому +1

    I love your videos , spent 7 years in a row on Holiday in Cellan , farmhouse with 2 horses , you take me back 🙂

  • @chriscrookson8524
    @chriscrookson8524 Рік тому +3

    It won't be long before we have to have a man with a red flag, walking ahead of us!

  • @Volcanicbrown1878
    @Volcanicbrown1878 Рік тому +17

    What's coming next? A man walking in front of you with a red flag?

  • @gpo746
    @gpo746 Рік тому +5

    Paul, that wasn't flashes of lightning , that was hidden speed cameras getting you for doing 20.5mph !😆

  • @marktorbay
    @marktorbay Рік тому +8

    Looks just like the the lanes in Devon 😂 but joking aside the reason they put up rd closed signs is because it takes away their responsibility too repair and maintain the Rd. Also where I live they are slowly replacing the National speed limit signs with 40 signs. And of course none of this applies if you ride a push bike because the speed limit does not apply to them 😮

  • @Shadrach666
    @Shadrach666 Рік тому +5

    Them Roman chariots would get a speeding ticket on that road

  • @UOO303T
    @UOO303T Рік тому +3

    Hi just subscribed these 20mph are popping up everywhere

  • @daveyoung9090
    @daveyoung9090 Рік тому +2

    There appears to be a shortage of battery powered angle-grinders in the shops now.....be quick before they are gone.

  • @jonsnow6741
    @jonsnow6741 Рік тому +2

    wonder when they are going to scrape the moss off the road to prevent skidding and accidents .

  • @jamesbeach8362
    @jamesbeach8362 Рік тому +1

    The A48 from Bonvilston to the Cowbridge by-pass is 60mph. When you get to the by-pass, a dual carriageway, it reduces to 50mph.

  • @GTMarmot
    @GTMarmot Рік тому +2

    I wouldn't mind a few "unsuitable for motor vehicles" roads near me. They look like fun.

  • @bonza167
    @bonza167 Рік тому +2

    nothing that cool hand luke couldn't fix with a pipe cutter

  • @mrhouse3826
    @mrhouse3826 Рік тому +1

    Just paint over the damn things. Bladerunners R US!

  • @amelierenoncule
    @amelierenoncule 9 місяців тому +1

    For those signs: Take 2 spray paint cans & a stencil...and change the numerals to read 40...and Bob's your uncle !

  • @richandiben
    @richandiben Рік тому +1

    The Government?
    Wasting money??
    Our money???
    Never!

  • @otherpeoplesTriumphs
    @otherpeoplesTriumphs Рік тому +3

    That triumph is beautiful Paul 👌

  • @roygroves5983
    @roygroves5983 Рік тому +2

    In my NZ city the council is debating new 30kph limits within 1k of schools , which are everywhere , except on major routes . So most of the city will be 30kph . My concern is when a dangerous police pursuit gets called off the police still attempt to " keep eyes on " at the posted limits . That "keeping eyes on" will suddenly become extremely difficult at 30k when it is already nearly impossible at 50k . Way to make it easier for the offenders to make their getaways councilors ! ( sardonic applause )

  • @gordonbriggs2345
    @gordonbriggs2345 Рік тому +3

    We have them in some of the villages in wiltshire nobody takes any notice of them.

  • @milesrogers8314
    @milesrogers8314 Рік тому +3

    It won’t be long before PC Plod starts hiding in the bushes armed with a Trucam speed camera. The first you will know of it is when the infringement notice comes in the mail..

  • @Anthony-w7i5g
    @Anthony-w7i5g Рік тому +2

    The new speed is so we have to buy steel from India to make the signs.

  • @michaelfirth1075
    @michaelfirth1075 Рік тому +5

    It’s just another little bit of control on people. Next week it will be only walk on the left on all pavements.

  • @shingerz
    @shingerz Рік тому +2

    Bloody ridiculous 20mph what bird brain came up with that good video 👍

  • @The_Irish_Volunteer
    @The_Irish_Volunteer Рік тому +3

    Nothing an angle grinder couldn't put right. Looks like a great road for my Defender.

  • @richardgiles2484
    @richardgiles2484 Рік тому +2

    This is just one example of the madness 😂 most agree 20mph in some places like near schools.
    The idiots will still drive like idiots 20mph or not.
    I have short dead end roads near me about 75m long and they have two signs saying 20mph 😂😂😂😂

  • @stevepage2541
    @stevepage2541 Рік тому +5

    Good Lord,20mph,whatever next? The return of the red flag act?

  • @motown1703
    @motown1703 Рік тому +2

    Government! “Be all end all” of all man kinds problems.

  • @tarasbolotov2486
    @tarasbolotov2486 Рік тому +2

    Are there no BLADE RUNNERS in Wales ? With disc cutters

  • @motophoenix5951
    @motophoenix5951 Рік тому +3

    30 kph (18.6 mph) zones are pretty wide spread in Europe nowadays. Sign of the times. But anyway the Cub sounds nice.

  • @richardwoods3313
    @richardwoods3313 Рік тому +3

    cordless angle grinder is a good way to get rid of them useless signs lol

  • @bampitony6108
    @bampitony6108 Рік тому +1

    Hey in it funny the 20mph signs turn grey over night amazing how you can't tell the speed limit in the morning..😂😂

  • @allanhughes7859
    @allanhughes7859 Рік тому +2

    110% AGREE WE CAN DO 60 m.p.h. DOWN OUR COUNTRY LANE HOW FUC....N MADIS THAT ???????????????

  • @clive1860
    @clive1860 Рік тому +2

    Hi Paul,
    Same county as yourself Carmarthenshire
    suggest vyou forward a copy of the video
    to their highways dept, they will no doubt be pleased
    ,as they have a reputation to safeguard
    of being the least sensible local authority in existence

  • @paulrixson5828
    @paulrixson5828 Рік тому +2

    Oh Paul , what have they done to our country😮.

  • @andyb.5268
    @andyb.5268 Рік тому +1

    They wouldn't take much hooking out with a JCB. That cemetery where you turned right, mostly full of those attempting 60 along that track?

  • @PatrickWhitaker-ls2cs
    @PatrickWhitaker-ls2cs Рік тому

    I've seen you go past our house at llanwrda, I was on the bonneville, honestly I'm for the 20mph in this village.

  • @daviddavies5347
    @daviddavies5347 Рік тому +2

    Be careful, there be a snaky speed camera down there to catch you out! 🤣🤣

  • @lesjones7617
    @lesjones7617 Рік тому +2

    With you all the way on that!

  • @brockett
    @brockett Рік тому +2

    All signage is installed after reference to a map. The policy makers never go there, the Apparatchiks never go there, the councils officers never go there. In fact the only people who go there are the folk who actually put the signs up.

    • @philhawley1219
      @philhawley1219 Рік тому

      To install one sign there will be four men in two vans to install the roadworks signs, four men to set up the traffic lights using two more vans, a comfort station supplied by two men in one van , a H&S compliance bloke in a company car, a sex and race non discrimination advisor and one man earning less than anyone else who digs the hole with a pick and shovel, mixes the concrete by hand and puts the sign up. No wonder this fucking country is going to the dogs.

    • @craigyllyn
      @craigyllyn Рік тому

      Round here they’re absolutely fine. It’s no biggy at all . They’ve actually put some thought into it.

  • @martinlanigan803
    @martinlanigan803 Рік тому +1

    Its like old backroads in irish countryside

  • @iivaridark6850
    @iivaridark6850 Рік тому +2

    The traffic sign industry has good relations with the government! I wonder when they will have all the ant trails limited with some speed limits and signs?

  • @DavidBatt-v8r
    @DavidBatt-v8r Рік тому +3

    Think how many Romans you’ve saved going at only 15mph

  • @michaelmahon8896
    @michaelmahon8896 Рік тому +6

    Quite a few cyclists will be getting speeding tickets around Wales in the near future, Drakefart will be pushing for licence plates on bicycles

    • @gavind9487
      @gavind9487 Рік тому

      How do you know your speed without a speedo?

    • @michaelmahon8896
      @michaelmahon8896 Рік тому +1

      @@gavind9487 cyclists who can maintain speeds of 20mph and above will have a garmin or yahoo computer on their bikes, even a cheep cycling computer will give fairly accurate speed readings

    • @gavind9487
      @gavind9487 Рік тому

      @@michaelmahon8896 I don't have one and never will unless they become mandatory.

    • @mhowers
      @mhowers Рік тому +2

      Bicycles are not subject to speed limits as they're not motor vehicles

    • @daviddavies5347
      @daviddavies5347 Рік тому

      I don’t think (I probably should) that cyclists have a speed limit, there was a news item last week of cyclists riding over the 30 mph limit through a village and the Police could do no more than warn them! @@mhowers

  • @geoffwright9570
    @geoffwright9570 Рік тому +1

    Simple solution paint the 20 mph signs blue and 20 mph will then be the minimum speed to travel at.

  • @patthewoodboy
    @patthewoodboy Рік тому

    that road needs a 20mph limit and a speed camera

  • @stuartosborne3013
    @stuartosborne3013 Рік тому +1

    That’ll be the next thing Chairman Incompetent will do ban motor vehicles from green lanes.

  • @750triton
    @750triton Рік тому +2

    If the leading Welsh assembly party should change at the next GE, will anything change with those speed limits? I think we know the answer

  • @hunterjamison4808
    @hunterjamison4808 Рік тому +2

    Some of the old towns in coastal Oregon are 15 mph😳

  • @npr1300A8
    @npr1300A8 Рік тому +3

    Great video and with thunder and lightning! As usual, all meant to confuse the rider and driver with confusing signage. Pathetic. Get him out you lovely Welsh people. Unfortunately what's happening there and in Scotland is purely due to devolution. Greed. Ride safe my friend.

  • @angusmunro711
    @angusmunro711 Рік тому +1

    If you cannot see both signs clearly..... then it is iilegal to prosecute!! Take pictures as evedence if needed.

  • @tommyvandor6557
    @tommyvandor6557 Рік тому

    Paul that's a lot worse than the lane to Talley from Llansadwrn and Felindre to Talley, I won't be trying that way on my low Hornet.

  • @creakygnome5084
    @creakygnome5084 Рік тому +1

    Speed "limits" are not an indication of how safe it is to travel on said road. They are purely a legally enforcable limit, usually enforced where people not enclosed in a metal shell are likely to be.

  • @laurabeaumont3593
    @laurabeaumont3593 Рік тому +2

    Sense has gone out of this country and plenty others it only gets worse from here on in.
    The inmates are in charge of the asylum anything can happen and it will.

  • @toeknee6588
    @toeknee6588 Рік тому +1

    I didn't realise they applied to everyone : )

  • @disabledadventures4115
    @disabledadventures4115 Рік тому +2

    They would be better to spend the money on road re-surfacing your roads look terrible, well to be honest the roads are crap everywhere these days.

  • @p--n
    @p--n Рік тому +6

    We draw to your attention that THE BILL OF RIGHTS 1688 (a superior act that cannot be ammended/altered in any way by any Parliament ) States:
    That all Grants and Promises of Fines and Forfeitures of particular persons before Conviction are illegall and void.
    People get the "government" they deserve (tolerate)

  • @MegaTubescreamer
    @MegaTubescreamer Рік тому +3

    that lane is perfect for a trials cub or even a gravel bike paul.but,
    yes, you`re right the wokies have been sat around their little
    cauldren whipping up a bit of hubble and bubble ,sad gits.😂

  • @johnanthonycolley3803
    @johnanthonycolley3803 Рік тому +1

    😂 Welcome to Snales

  • @hermangibbs8163
    @hermangibbs8163 Рік тому +1

    Thanks Paul.

  • @iantobanter9546
    @iantobanter9546 Рік тому +1

    British road adopted by the Romans before our current oppressors in Cardiff Bay.

  • @stevewilliams5428
    @stevewilliams5428 Рік тому

    The 20mph limits you went through coincide with where your local councillors reside.

  • @PatrickWhitaker-ls2cs
    @PatrickWhitaker-ls2cs Рік тому

    60? Go for it-i'd pay to see that.😅

  • @tommyvandor6557
    @tommyvandor6557 Рік тому

    Some in Mid Devon are as bad mind and near the Devon/Somerset border

  • @supertrooper6011
    @supertrooper6011 Рік тому +1

    you didn't need to drive anywhere to convince us this was dumb

  • @martinowl
    @martinowl Рік тому +6

    The new 20mph limits are preparing us in the uk for the near future, when personal transport for the masses will be cycles or a horse for country folk.

    • @ParaBellum2024
      @ParaBellum2024 Рік тому +1

      You're being rather optimistic: personal transport for the masses will be walking, like it was for millennia. People are being fooled into thinking that once fossil fuels are gone, there'll be something to replace them, on the same scale. There won't. Our descendants will live like our ancestors did.

    • @MDM1992
      @MDM1992 Рік тому +1

      I'll personally buy a motorcycle instead, easy to get around the 20mph traffic jams and just ride no plate before i comply to this authoritarian bollocks, not like police will be able to chase me when theres 5 miles of 20mph traffic and im gone lol

  • @williamwallacedebruce9221
    @williamwallacedebruce9221 Рік тому +1

    When are you going to get a finish coat on the hoose?.

  • @Alan-jx5hn
    @Alan-jx5hn Рік тому +1

    Love the bike❤

  • @JohnKeeshan
    @JohnKeeshan Рік тому +1

    It's not legal to do sixty on a road like that just because the signs are there. The driver is expected to match his speed to prevailing conditions such as road surface, sight lines and such. Doing thirty down there could leave you open to a charge of dangerous driving if you were to hit a kid on a bike.

  • @allanhughes7859
    @allanhughes7859 Рік тому +2

    Where the hell was the man/woman/A another genda with the red flag did you not book them or they in advance ???? Or was it an it ??????????????? Dolphin Cat Mouse Bird etc etc etc !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @erik_dk842
    @erik_dk842 Рік тому +1

    Revenue to cater to the dinghy tourists has to come from somewhere

  • @michaelarchangel1163
    @michaelarchangel1163 Рік тому +1

    Mrs. Drakeford, dead. Mr. Drakeford, still alive. The Archbishop of Canterbury DID once remark that he doubted the existence of God.

  • @GrandPotatoe
    @GrandPotatoe Рік тому

    How did I get here on UA-cam?

  • @chappy0690
    @chappy0690 Рік тому +1

    I won't be complying with 20mph, at least not until they make their minds up and change the road signs and markings so they match. Currently have signs stating 20 and 30 written all over the roads.

  • @delli6059
    @delli6059 Рік тому +1

    I love your god..he sounds sensible 🙏🙏🙏

  • @cheshirebowman4465
    @cheshirebowman4465 Рік тому +1

    If you let them get away with it, they will do it. The French don't put up with it. The had riots about the fact they wanted to put the pension age up.

    • @robmule4647
      @robmule4647 Рік тому

      They also have lots of 18.6mph limits soooooooo

  • @raymondwoods2304
    @raymondwoods2304 Рік тому +1

    You now know how to vote at the next election then.

  • @ricbarnes6272
    @ricbarnes6272 Рік тому +3

    Mr henshaw, i watch nearly all of your videos, & i'm a little bit taken aback at your rather unfair criticism of the 20 mph speed limits, after all you young hotrodders & your hopped up olde triumphs etc. go roaring through these country lanes at unheard of speeds, knocking over olde pensioner ladies & their cats, willy nilly, whatever can you expect, someone has to step up to the plate & take you young delinquents to task for your own good & the good of the public at large. There, i hope you feel properly chastised & will think more carefully in the future when you feel the uncontrollable urge to race along at speeds of 21 or say 22 mph. Lovely videos, love your nice olde bikes, i envy your beautiful peaceful green lanes to ride on. Keep on keeping on sir, & mind those excessive speeds, i'll be keeping a close eye upon you. Ric, a senile olde geezer from ontario canada, as a short p.s. , if that sign said 20 over here, it would be 20 kph, just a good brisk walking speed. Bye now.

  • @paddy4799
    @paddy4799 Рік тому +1

    I belong to a motorhome club and we were coming up next April for a week. Since the new limit, all of us can’t bothered to travel under such ridiculous and draconian speed laws. We are now having our rally in Yorkshire. So with 32 people, three camp sites, many gallons of fuel, pub lunches etc etc, the economy of wales has probably lost about £25-£30 thousand over one week. I wonder how much more your economy will be losing in future.

    • @paulhenshaw4514
      @paulhenshaw4514  Рік тому

      Yes, it is ridiculous. The Welsh 'government' are just doing things like this to be deliberately different to Westminster, in a thinly veiled attempt to justify their pointless existence!

  • @borthwey
    @borthwey Рік тому +1

    Yeah, quite right, if you're going to drive at 20 mph, what's the need of a road?? Just clear some bushes and off you go through whatever...

  • @gary63693
    @gary63693 Рік тому +1

    I think that not legally enforceable, because i'm pretty sure there has to be street lights in 20mph zones

    • @gary63693
      @gary63693 Рік тому

      Looks like i stand corrected

    • @paulhenshaw4514
      @paulhenshaw4514  Рік тому

      There is one street light, not much further into the village, after those signs.

  • @michaelfraser5723
    @michaelfraser5723 Рік тому +2

    unenforceable

  • @michaelfraser5723
    @michaelfraser5723 Рік тому +1

    15:32 you see, HE (big head in pick up truck) wants the road for his own fat use

  • @maskedavenger2578
    @maskedavenger2578 Рік тому +3

    I can see the point of 20 mph for very short lengths of highway ,outside schools ,hospitals ,housing estates & busy high streets. I can’t see the need on long stretches of A & B road. I live in England a few miles from the North Wales border , I can tell you the people of Wales are not alone ,we suffer similar madness from our local governments concerning our speed limits .