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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by mfalcao on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:28PM (#38565095)
50 is literally faster than Tour de France pros maintain on flat ground. A regular person on a normal bike will have a hard time even doing 30.
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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by CapsAdmin on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:50PM (#38565222)
Thanks for pointing that out.. Maybe 35km/h is a more reasonable ceiling.

The reason I mentioned this number is because I found this article of some Norwegian middle aged woman saying she is reaching 50km/h explaining something with the speed limit of bicycles in Norway.

However she meant that she reaches that speed downhill, which makes sense..

https://elbil.no/lovlig-elsykkel-i-508-km-t/

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