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Grace Picket was in a hurry to get to work last week. She needed to travel 47 miles from her home to work in Scottsdale, Arizona. That big hill into town was just too hard to resist. |
Avid cyclist Grace Picket averages around 150 mile a week on her road and mountain bikes combined. She occasionally rides the 47 miles into Scottsdale and has her husband pick her up from work and drive them back home. “Our house is pretty far up in the hills”, said Picket. “I like to bomb down the big hills to try and keep my average speed up. They just caught me near the bottom of the hill and there was no way I could slow down enough not to get caught”.
A local Arizona police officer clocked Picket at 68MPH before the hill leveled out. There is a lot of speeding on this hill during the morning commute into town and officers often wait at the bottom to catch the offenders. “The speed limit is 45 MPH because of some blind curves and we just want to keep it safe”, said the officer. “This was the first bicycle speeding ticket to be issued on this hill”.
Picket says see plans on framing the ticket if she can’t get them to lower the $60 fine when see goes to court next month.” Maybe my co-workers will believe me now when I tell them how long it takes me to ride to work”,said Picket.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIn the Scottsdale Community College paper they also said she was put in the cop’s car and her bike in the trunk and was drivin to the station and held until her husband could bring in her drivers liscense.
re:Matt’s comment… interesting, since you don’t need a license to ride a bicycle. Not surprising that they want to force you to prove your address when you’re ticketed for speeding, however.
Go Baby! Go!!
haha radical!
sweet! I’ve only hit 50 mph.
That’s my kind of girl! Bomb those downhills!
Although I garrantee the radar was off.
On the local news she said that her bike computer’s max speed said she was only going 54 MPH but the cop’s radar said she was going 68MPH. It makes you wonder how accurate the cop’s radar gun was.
She can request the calibration records for the gun, and if they do not have any recently, the case gets thrown out. She should also have her bike computer tested for accuracy, it would help her case greatly.
Now that’s what I call a Podium Girl!!! Tailwinds to you Ms. Picket
I would frame that ticket and display it proudly
68 MPH on _any_ bike coming into any burb in Phoenix is absurd, maybe 40-45 down South Mnt or 60 coming down Golden Eagle in Fountain hills (18% grade).
Shea blvd 45 tops.
Cop’s radar is wrong.
1. The radar gun is probably not certified to time bicycles.
2. She needs to sue the police department for holding her. You don’t need a driver’s license to ride a bicycle. The fact you have one doesn’t mean you have to carry it or produce it. She really needs to call a lawyer and hope she sticks it to the police department.
3. The posted speed limits, reasons for those speed limits, road widths, signage are made for cars and trucks. Those rules don’t and shouldn’t apply to bicycles.
There is a good chance the radar picked up the spinning spokes and got a false return that made the speed appear higher than it actually was.
there is noway she was doing 68mph the pros only do 50 to 55mph in the tour de france
buy hay i would frame the ticket as well
well done girl good effort
I think most cyclists would be very sceptical of that speed (68) as attainable on anything but a cliff because of wind resistance. Radar is unreliable on targets that small…a bicycle frame? She probably should fight the ticket as it will be 22350 VC and will not say it was on a bicycle..just speeding.
That is really fast- I have gone over 50 in Eastern Iowa along the Mississippi River Valley- I braked-
Please
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