Originally Posted by
Looigi
I'm not going to jump on this bandwagon. In my experience as a roadie, I don't perceive the speed of vehicles on the roads that I ride as being and issue. As a motorist, I think most speed limits are set too low,as evidenced by everybody routinely exceeding them. And roads are the domain of motorized vehicles. On the vast majority of roads in the US cyclists are a relative rarity. The reality is cyclists are secondary users.
Could it be that the "secondary users" are such as everyone else thinks they own the road?
I'm still trying to figure out why a human in a big noisy polluting machine has some special priority over a human walking, or riding a pollution free machine. They are all merely HUMANS.