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The faster you go, the more air you have bashing into your surface.

Imagine the molecules comprising air were the size of basket-balls.

at walking speed, you'd only have 5 or 6 basket balls hitting you in the face every minute or so and they'd only hit you at walking pace. When you move up to running speed, you suddenly have 15 or so basket balls hitting you in the face every minute at running pace. Riding on a bicycle, you have between 30 and 40 basket balls hitting you in the face every minute at a very high speed.

So the faster you go, the more basket balls you have hitting you at a higher speed. These two factors multiply together to give the friction force which increases as a square factor of your speed, (i.e. increase speed by 2, you have 2x the basketballs hitting you 2x as fast which equals 2x2 = 4 times the friction force).

I hope this explanation is adequate.

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