I broke the speed limit on my bicycle. I mean yeah, the speed limit was 15, and the motor on my bike tops out at 20, and I had to go looking for a speed limit lower than 25, and I wasn’t pedaling, and the speedometer on my bike said 17.4mph. damn breaking the speed limit on your bike feels really good. I really accomplished something today.

Add one crime to the list. I’ll take the ticket if you want to serve it online police i am proud

  • AngryCommieKender
    3·
    9 hours ago

    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.

    • MinnesotaGoddamOP
      1·
      8 hours ago

      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.

      • AngryCommieKender
        2·
        8 hours ago

        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.

        • MinnesotaGoddamOP
          1·
          8 hours ago

          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”)