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Originally Posted by Toymeister
In this thread, if we are to believe the OP. Two trikes caused a road jam that covered a distance of over two miles. That's the distance from the round about at Water lilly to the Brownwood bridge. Further, these trikes maintained a speed of 5mph (trikes can easily hit 20mpg downhill).
None of this is true, obviously. Despite, this the OP asks us to believe the trikes were rude or discourteous.
Why would anyone believe the first two statements, demonstratively false while believing the third?
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I believe you misread the post. The road jam did not extend two miles in length (about 400 carts), the road jam existed for 25 minutes while covering two miles of distance and growing to 40 carts.
Two miles in 25 minutes would be about 5mph average. This seems slow, but.... While a trike might reach 20mph going downhill, it would not be going nearly that fast if it had to make a 90 degree turn at the bottom to go into a tunnel. It also would not go that fast riding up the hill out of the tunnel on the other side. There are several stop signs along that route which would further affect the average speed.
It isn't obvious to me that "none of this is true." There may have been some exaggeration (imagine that!) but the situation seems plausible.
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