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I'm sure I read somewhere on here that speed limits don't apply to cyclists, I may be talking rubbish though. Either way 20mph is a decent enough pace on a bike, but you'd struggle to keep under that limit going down a big hill!
They are introducing 20mph limits in more and more areas, and it makes them great to cycle through, the only issue is that to enforce the new limit they put in speed bumps.
There was an ad campaign a few years back that said you are twice as likely to kill someone if you hit them at 30 than if you had been travelling at 20. I don't know the stats, or whether that statement is still considered true, but if it is it's a pretty strong argument for reducing the limit if so.