Originally Posted by atbman
However, they can still get you for "furious and reckless riding", often because you are going faster than is reasonable for the conditions. This charge was used in the early days of cycling and was taken from an existing law applying to horsriders (serious shortge of speedometers in the 19th C.
You can be cited for this in the US as well. Well maybe not the 'furious' part, but the 'reckless' or 'reckless speed' or 'unsafe speed' or 'unsafe for condition' (something like that). In fact you can be cited for this even if you are below posted speed limit. For example if you are driving 55mph in a heavy ice storm on a 65mph freeway when all other resonable traffic is going at 40mph.
Al