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Yeah, this drives me nuts. I can easily pace 20-23mph on a bicycle for quite some time in a 25mph speed zone. The problem is most of the vehicles on that road are traveling 40.

It's sillier than that. Note that I said the average speed is 20mph or less; that's not the speed limit, that's the real-world speed a car will see. So they pass you, just to have you catch up to them or pass them at the next light.

I don't think you really make the point you're trying to, given that half the time you're waiting at traffic lights, so the rest of the time you have to be doing considerably more than 20mph to achieve that as an average. Hence waiting behind a cyclist at 15mph is slowing you down quite a bit.

Well, the situation I am thinking of is a country road which the speed limit is either 35 or 50.

It's not really as much of an issue in town.