Originally Posted by Daily Commute
So, when I am alone at 6:00 a.m. on a portion of an MUP where I have a clear view, I am being "self-centered" if I ride 16 mph when the posted suggested speed is 15mph?
Nope. Only when your actions endanger others, and you do them anyway, because you don't care about others. At 6 AM with nobody else around, I wouldn't call that self-centered. i wouldn't even call it reckless. At noon, with children on the MUP, I might call it self-centered. It all depends on context, doesn't it? And in the context of THIS thread, we've been talking about racer wannabes who endanger everybody else on the MUP with their self-centered riding style.
Yeah, that's right, I said wannabes.
Fortunately, no one has been able to show me a city ordinance or state law that makes MUP speed limits here anything other than suggestions where I live. Traffic laws only apply to cyclists on roads and on paths exclusively reserved for cyclists (of which there are none), and an MUP doesn't fit either definition.
Traffic laws are not the only laws cyclists are subject to.
And if they are going to ticket cyclists for going 20-25 mph (I assume we get the same 5-10 mph buffer that car drivers get), they should also give tickets to peds walking side-by-side (also against the posted "suggestions" on our MUP's).
Ticket everybody who ruins the MUP for everybody else, i'm fine with that.