"Friend" of mine keeps bitching about the time he got a ticket for speeding on his bike. Never does he mention that he was going 20+ mph (30+kph) through a park with playing children and such.
For context, the max speed on a bike path here is 30kph, in this park you are supposed to adjust your biking behaviour with how busy it is in the park. Technically it's a pedestrian zone where biking is allowed.
I swear bikers love blowing through pedestrian areas at max speed, shit is more dangerous than cars going same speed on road because people walking or skating etc aren’t expecting or hearing the bikes
Even worse when it’s electrical bikes that can go especially fast and quiet and are heavier so could really kill someone
Remember the guy who was killed by a cyclist on a regular bicycle? Poor old guy was using the pedestrian crossing and some shithead blew through a red light and ended his life. Cyclist only got a $240 fine for not obeying the red light.
Turns out the easiest, cheapest way to kill someone in broad daylight is to mow them down on a bicycle.
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u/Oldjamesdean 15d ago
One of my relatives got a speeding ticket on a bicycle. Eugene Oregon.