Depends on which law you're talking about.

see here, lots of people are fast, France is inhabited by lycra clad carbon junkies
BUT you can beat'em easy if you are prepared to blatantly break the traffic laws
you know like riding across junctions against the traffic and that kinda thing

although I am trying to stop doing that kind of thing
it's OK to let someone go past

I make a special point of chasing people down if I stop and they don't (I don't always stop but if I do they better!). Otherwise it's just not cricket!
Then again there's calculated risk and there's stupidity. I might mix 'em up but tend to err on the side of caution.

That's good.

That's bad.

:)

I am too old to race people outright but I have been racing 'in traffic' for twenty five years or so thats what I mean about being wiley rather than being flat out fast today I rode back into Paris after being out in the countryside & I kinda scared myself after I got off the bike because I kinda got too into it I don't really stop and I hardly ever hit the brake and I am moving faster than anyone else on a bike and I keep telling myself this is no way to behave but when I am on the bike and in traffic I am like a man possessed I just get such a buzz off it I can't stop I just have to keep going faster and faster I mean you are like a bicycle racer you are going to be fast in the sprint and over distance and you are going to beat 99.9 but you bottle it just once in the traffic - then I win the race

yeah i know him....but i cant think of his name,hops is mates with him

read the books and seen the dvd's but my personal heros have qualities far removed from respecting one mans ability to pedal quicker than someone else -

I recognize that he has an amazing ability to pedal faster for longer thatn most people but he's not who I pretend to be when i'm doing a stupid fast descent or hauling my ample carcass up a hill

im on the fence about this because i dont know enough about the bloke.......but its not about him pedling faster for longer,its about human indurance,its about being completly focused on your goal......i think in this case armstrong should be admired if nothing else

one of my all time favourite comedians, absolute comedy legend, self confessed alcoholic and wife beater -

makes it rather dificult to see him as a hero...

Lil' John
loveliest guy really.