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You can be stopped for cycling too fast in Central Park

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If you try to pedal like a professional athlete through Central Park, you can absolutely be pulled over by authorities. Because modern geared bicycles can easily outpace urban traffic, municipal transit codes frequently slap them with strict legal velocity limits to save oblivious pedestrians.

You can be stopped for cycling too fast in Central Park
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