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
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.