Power needed to over come stop signs
This guy has done the math that shows just why cyclists want to blast through stop signs.
Basically, if you are on a street with a stop sign every 100m, and you want to maintain 20km/h average speed, you have to output 5 times as much energy that if you did not have to stop at that frequency. This would be the same for a mountain biker slowing down at every corner and hill.
I came across this while reading about the current debate about interpreting stop signs as yield signs for cyclists:
why cyclists hate stop signs
should
shouldn't
Who's at fault in car-bike crashes? It doesn't matter, the cyclist suffers either way.
Basically, if you are on a street with a stop sign every 100m, and you want to maintain 20km/h average speed, you have to output 5 times as much energy that if you did not have to stop at that frequency. This would be the same for a mountain biker slowing down at every corner and hill.
I came across this while reading about the current debate about interpreting stop signs as yield signs for cyclists:
why cyclists hate stop signs
should
shouldn't
Who's at fault in car-bike crashes? It doesn't matter, the cyclist suffers either way.
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