Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Unless they don’t jump through all the right arbitrary legal hoops, in that case fuck 'em.

The danger with something like this is, if the punishment is the same for raping as killing, why would a rapist leave the victim alive?

I’m just relating my experience - when I was younger, I commuted 20 miles round trip every day, and I worked at a bike shop with weenies that were always trying to shave weight off their bikes, so I did whatever I could to add functional weight (so no filling the tubes with lead, that would be cheating) including building up a dually, two rims side by side on a Sachs 3x7 hub. My average speed was higher when commuting (lots of rolling hills, but overall uphill in the morning, downhill going home) than it was on days off, when I was mainly riding around town where it was flat.

And it certainly wasn’t because I wanted to go to work…

Weight speeds you up downhill more than it slows you down uphill. The trick is to not coast - keep pedaling downhill, use the momentum to get up the next hill.