I am the proud recipient of a bicycle speeding ticket from Boulder,
Colorado- 44 mph in a 25.

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Don Hanson wrote:
> Some years ago, we took the split window  VW panel south from Jackson Hole,
> Wyoming,  for our normal springtime Baja trip.  On the way south, we swung
> by So California to visit my brother's family, still living in my childhood
> home in Belmont Shores..now an up-scale marina area and quite congested.  We
> had our race bicycles along, so, having grown up on a bike in the area and
> having an adventure-some and fit female cyclist as a companion, we decided
> to go out on our bikes for some fun in the traffic..
>   After doing the 'bike-messenger' thing up and down the main street,
> dodging cars, ducking through alleys, jumping curbs and generally being 'not
> grown-up' we were headed home across the bridge that spans the Long Beach
> Marine Stadium.  The only hill we'd seen all day, so predictably, we had to
> see how fast we could go...A 6- lane bridge full of traffic (that we passed
> easily) with a signal at the bottom. When we were kids, we always just
> turned right, then quick left onto the 'feeder' street that paralleled  the
> main street and kept right on going...
>   So, we did that and at the next signal we encounter a policeman with his
> car stopped and light flashing...Huh?  He points right at us and motions us
> to the curb...and tells us we'd been clocked at 52mph in a 25 zone!  Illegal
> turn without a stop--no signals--passing on the right--blah blah blah!..
> Wanted our drivers licenses...Huh?  To ride a bike?  Drivers license?..Speed
> limit?---we played it dumb---Then Marie, my now S.O., plays the Wyoming Hick
> Card.  (she happened to have her Wyoming license with her..it has that cool
> outline of a cowboy on a bucking bronc as a background).."Well shucks,
> officer, we're sorry, we come from Wyomin', and up there, if there ain't no
> cows to harm, you kin do 'bout anythin' you want"...
>   He let us go after shaking his head in disbelief..
>   The old '57 36hp van worked great, btw, as usual..Slower than the bikes,
> but ...
>   Don Hanson
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