As road deaths increase and cycle lanes overflow with e-bikes, the Netherlands is considering a cycling speed limit of 12mph (20km/h).
The government has started a two-week trial in Houten, near Utrecht, to gauge whether freedom-loving Dutch cyclists are willing to slow down – and whether they have any idea how fast they are going in the first place.
I can comfortably peddle faster than that on my non-ebike.
I was gonna say that seems quite low. 15 might be more reasonable maybe?
No it isn’t. The average speed of a pedal cyclist is 16 km/h.
That is your maximum speed.
Max speed for the average (50th percentile) for the commuting population, sure, I believe that. Did you mean to actually question whether or not the other user can actually ride a bike above 25kmh maximum? I would imagine the 70th percentile of regular commuting cyclists could easily exceed that on flat ground if they needed to.
My average speed on commuting rides is around 30kmh, ~18mph. My maximum speed on rides I regularly do for commuting is ~55kmh. Downhill, of course. Not all of us live in flatland.
For whatever it’s worth, despite regularly riding at that speed I am 1000% in support of speed limits on dedicated mixed use lanes. 25kmh is a reasonable speed limit to put on bike lanes IMHO. I’m riding along a rural road when commuting because I have no other choice. If I was in a mixed use path I wouldn’t feel comfortable at all going that speed.
My average speed is somewhere around 12km/h sure, but that’s because half of the time I spend on traffic lights, limiting top speed to 20 would just make average closer to 10km/h
Also, I don’t think limit lower than 25km/h makes much sense, but that’s personal opinion that is not backed by statistics. And yeah, I drive a muscle powered bike, not an e-bike, maybe I would’ve thought differently in that case
I mean I’ve actually measured myself. My standard pace is about 14 mph. But I’m fairly athletic so that may be above the typical cyclist.
This is about the Netherlands. In NL they ride Omafietsen. You’re not going to push past 20 kmh on one of those without breaking a sweat.
The problem is that there used to be a flow. Everyone kinda rode at the same speed. Now there’s so many different vehicles, running at different speeds, it’s impossible to keep everything flowing without everyone being annoyed as fuck.
Lmao this is hilarious.
I also do about 24 as my “natural” speed. 28 is about the most I can sustain for a while, about 32 going full tilt for a couple of minutes. On the bike paths here I would say the average speed is closer to 20 than 16, as measured when I’m stuck behind bike traffic.
I think he meant 15 miles per hour which roughly translates to 25 km/h
Ahahaha you must be so out of shape. I commute maybe once every two weeks and hit 30kph average