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by iuyhgtfvgbhjn 5762 days ago
When I'm not cycling I have a Subaru WRX, and yet on the road I'm held up by all these people in SUVs,minivans and pickup trucks that can't do 0-60 in <5secs like I can.

Same on sidewalks - I'm jogging along and the sidewalk is crowded with old people that can't maintain a 50min 10K time, they should get out of my way.
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logicalmind 5762 days ago
Ironically, there is a law against accelerating too fast. It's usually called illegal "display of acceleration".

BTW, I have a Subura WRX STI (2006).

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iuyhgtfvgbhjn 5762 days ago
The reason I bike to work is that in the traffic here I can do the trip in 20mins vs >1hour in a car. The bike computer says I averaged just over 30km/h ,max 70km/h (there's a big hill!)

I even beat the neighbors Porsche on the bike - I don't have the STI and the WRX is detuned in this market so it can't beat the Porshce on it's own!

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jrockway 5762 days ago
I've done this in Seattle. There was one of those speed traps monitoring the speeds of cars; they were going over 35mph, and I was passing them.

The ride back home was not as fast, though.

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