Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?

On 2/2/2025 10:32 PM, John B. wrote:

On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 12:43:08 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:
 

On 2/1/2025 8:58 AM, AMuzi wrote:

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People do make individual decisions based on their individual
evaluations of their individual circumstances, abilities etc. by their
own individual criteria.  And then they live or die by those decisions.
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https://cwbchicago.com/2025/01/garbage-collector-shoots-2-armed-robbers-
outside-elementary-school-killing-1.html
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In my personal opinion it is not morally superior do die while being
robbed. YMMV.

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A parallel statement that might be made by other people about spiders,
snakes, ghosts, enclosed spaces, and dozens of other phobias. Requiring
a gun to ride on a quiet bike path where young mothers push kids in
strollers is paranoid. And if I lived somewhere where I needed a gun to
fend off armed robbers, I'd move.

  Well... Ohio is only 14 from the top of the list in Robbery Rate
https://www.statista.com/statistics/232564/robbery-rate-in-the-us-by-state/
 But more perhaps more interesting is how do you know that you " needed
a gun to fend off armed robbers"?
 Until you actually do need it?

On one hand, Poland OH is largely bereft of violent crime:
https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Poland-Ohio.html
(compare to nearby Youngstown in 1st chart)
On the other, you don't know what you don't know, and careful methodical analysis is not part of a successful defense when events occur within moments. One is either prepared or in Second Place.
Action video this morning:
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/world-news/moment-78-year-old-fatally-shoots-teenager-trying-to-rob-him-in-argentina/
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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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