In a city not far from here, they have a speed cam set to 5km/h - walking speed.
Guess what? Kids worked out they can trigger this thing by running...
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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I got dusted by a squirrel today and I'm feeling all kinds of things about that
bicycle? motor?
it is one of those fancy electric tricycles gsafefase claws
sorry cat said good morining and decide i need biscuits made ON MY BOOB AND SHE WONT STOP
ow. damn cat gets away with a lot because it's cute. great now my wife's gonna ask how my mantitty got covered in claw marks. she's gonna know, but she's gonna want to hear the story. because i'm probably gonna tell it funny.
anyways my bike is a fun little terratrike i had a class 2 electric motor we slapped on since i'm on so many drugs i probably shouldn't be operating a car.
In my 20's I'd max out my physical capabilities at 25mph on a mechanical pedal bike. Take THAT, dull man 😂
NICE
this is nsfw because are you allowed to talk about crimes at work just getting ahead of that now
I commit crimes at work, so yeah.
i declare you Outlier Dullman, Something of Crimes
This is the kind of thing that highlights the difference between a normal childhood and what the kids where I grew up had. I don't know the fastest that we ever went on a bicycle but you can get some pretty good speed going straight down from a hilltop mine. No motors or anything, just a good solid huffy mountain bike and you can max out a bicycle speedometer quick.
OP needing an e-bike just to hit 17mph... Fuck, man. I can pretty easily hit 20-22mph on flat ground on my commuter bike ... and it's not even a fancy road racing bike or anything, just a steel-tube cruiser from the 90's.
My bike weighs like 100 pounds. It's a cargo bike. Also just a steel tube, but a bigger one.
I'm not going to mess with anyone for not being able to hit a certain speed or anything like that. OP says that the limitation is the type of bike they use but even if it wasn't there's plenty of reasons that someone may not have the same physicality as someone else that has nothing to do with who they are as a person.
I wasn't intending to mess with OP when I posted my reply either. We were a bunch dumbass kids flying down a very steep dirt road with no safety gear more than an hour from the nearest hospital. Looking back on my childhood and some of the ridiculous things that we did I'm surprised that we didn't have worse than a few broken bones.
I was cautioned by police when I was a teenager for hitting 81kph on a 60km/h road in the suburbs on my mountain bike.
I’ve also done the motorcycle escort role for a national cycle race and on a steep downhill section those lads were pushing 110km/h easy.
I live at the bottom of a steep hill. Those road bikers will get up to at least 50mph and it’s a 35 zone. They race down as fast as they can in their spandex, turn around, ride back up the hill going about 3mph (creating a line of traffic), and do it all over again. And again and again.
man uses hill for exercise, local car brains upset.
Ok but the road is for both bicycles AND cars. These people are breaking the speed limit but that’s not ok for cars? If a car was going up a hill at 5mph, the line of traffic behind them would be irate. Note that the bicyclists regularly run the stop sign halfway down the hill. If bicyclists want to be treated like cars, they should act like it.
This is why bike paths should be as numerous as roads, and just like cars and trains should be separate, never the twain should meet, as should bicycle paths and roads. My city in the US has good bike paths, and I opt for those over the bike lanes almost every day.
i mean, kinda? my city has a couple really good bike paths and most of its roads that have wide rightmost lanes for bikes to ride in and cars can pass safely. I drive across town in 15 minutes. I can bike across town in 20, and that's taking time to stop for kittens i see on the ride and see if they will come and get scritches. Because how can you see a cute outdoor kitten and not stop and see if it will come up to you for pets and forehead kisses (damn you pavlov). 30 years ago it was not friendly to bicyclists at all and i think the solution was one or two of the city council or the secret town council of elders becoming lycra dudes.
Unless your city only has a couple roads, you need to remove some roads and make them into bicycle and pedestrian thoroughfares. Cars control way too much of our cities, and non drivers have to subsidize both cars and suburbs.
nah, our city isn't facing the problems where we need to do that. yet. we have a few "downtown" streets we've done that on (entirely through the quarantine, just weekends now for the farmer's market that has grown so large the big park downtown can no longer contain it, which makes me very proud of my town).
most everyone who commutes here, they are commuting far longer than a bicycle can take them and we have been fighting to get regional public transit system connected (that is a billion dollar project though, bigger than my pull which is "hey get this dude some food")
The car is 2 tons of protective steel. The man on the bicycle is made out of flesh and bones and a little bit of aluminium scaffolding pole, maybe some carbon fiber. One of these is commutiing and not paying attention. The other is engaged in exercise and controlled risk (controlled risk in the same way some people opt to ride motorcycles). I do not begrudge someone working their body in a public space.
They have exactly the same right to be crawling up the hill at 3mph as I do in a crawler gear driving a truck up hill. We're both holding up traffic, but you don't get upset at me because my goods vehicle would crush your passenger car like a bug. Why the contradiction?
If you can't see the difference in potential energy (and potential probability for a fatal outcome) then you're just as lost.
One of these is commutiing and not paying attention
Kind of a gross generalization.
I do not begrudge someone working their body in a public space
Neither do I and I never said I did.
They have exactly the same right to be crawling up the hill at 3mph as I do in a crawler gear driving a truck up hill
Sure, and people would be irritated at that too. Even the bicyclists. No contradiction here.
All I said is that all vehicles on the road are supposed to abide by the same traffic laws. The kamikazes on bikes break the law just as often (sometimes more so) than cars. I wish there was a bike lane there but there isn’t.
Kind of a gross generalization.
Do you even look at your fellow motorists? Its hard to go more than 5 minutes without seeing someone texting and driving.
Neither do I and I never said I did.
Then why are you complaining about their legitimate use of the public space we all have an equal right to?
The traffic laws as applied to bicycles are stupid and a result of shite infrastructure that forces them to share the road with cars. And don't "bUt iTs ThE lAw" me either.
Got it, bicycles deserve access to the roads but don’t have to abide by the same rules. kthxbye.
Motherfucker do your legs have to get your suburban up to 30 again after a red light?
You sure have assumed a lot about me. Read my posts again and think. Until then, we’re done here.
Go grab your plastic wheel and turn it side to side like a big manly man honk honk
lycra dudes amirite?
My wife has forbidden ne to break the speed limit when she saw I did 54kmph. I miss the good old times when I was younger
I once biked down a hill at 49.7 mph according to Strava. The speed limit was 50. :(
hell yeah. 49.7 is amazing. how did you survive
I don’t even know. After that ride I saw that number and kind of freaked out a bit. I remember a car right next to me going the same speed. I realized that if I had fallen, I could have easily died. I’ve been a lot more careful of my downhill speed since then.
The ground feels so much closer at that speed outside of a cat, it's so crazy
Edit I SAID WHAT I SAID
There's a straight downhill section through a 40km/h zone in the city on my morning commute where it's quite easy to get up to 50.
Fastest I ever went on my high-racer recumbent was 98.1km/h many years ago on a long, straight downhill section of highway on Sunshine Coast. Sooo close to hitting the tonne.
I know a speed camera in a pedestrian area where cars aren't allowed to go faster than walking speed. I regularly saw kids making it go off by running.
I once broke the limit going home from the train station. The limit was 60 (still don't know why it's that low, on a straight road outside town like that 90 is the norm) and I went aboit 70 according to my tachometer. Almost hit a fucking fox as well.
damn what the hell is a fox doing fucking in the road you gotta do that in the bushes. no wonder you almost hit it.
A very long time ago, when I was in college and a few years after, I biked everywhere. I did upwards of 40 miles per day for a while between work and school. My normal cruising speed at the end of the time was 20-22mph on the flat. I could max out closer to 30 mph on a sprint. I was 10 miles from school and could do it in 20 minutes if needed.
Today, same bike, my cruising speed is around 5mph. I had lady in her 80's speed walk past me the last time I was out.
oh yeah, my bike is heavy as hell and my cruising speed without the motor is like, 6mph. but i'm taking my crime victories where i can
I was going to relate a story about how when I was 15 I went on a long-distance biking trip, and at one point we rode on a highway that went up and through a mountain pass. On the way down I decided to see how fast I could go, and I got the speedometer on the bike up to 60. But now that I think about it, the trip was in Canada so that was probably KPH, not MPH. Still impressive (assuming the speedo was anywhere close to accurate) but not quite as impressive as I remembered it.
oh yeah that's scary as fuck when you ride a recumbent. I have let gravity take me as fast as 50kph and that's it. impressive that you could get up to it tho
*Safe for work.
I'm onto you Johnny law
I broke the speed limit with my bike, too. It was downhill, and the speed limit was rather low because of an upcoming combination of bends. Got off with a warning, because my bike had no tachometer.
I broke 62 mph once, been over 55 a dozen or so times. Not that thrilling anymore, but it used to be
i've got a recumbent trike (there's two kinds, delta which are the kind we all grew up with (two wheels in back), and tadpole has two wheels in front and is cool looking. i got the cool looking one). they drop us close enough our knuckles can scrape the ground, which makes our speeds feel much faster than they actually are.
that's not why i bought it, but it's a fun bonus. right now 25-30mph (40-50kph) (20mph with my motor) is fast enough and where i'm traveling currently has enough bike lanes, trails, or 25mph roads to get me where i need to get. that right there, i'm incredibly lucky.