Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?

On 2/3/2025 9:21 AM, AMuzi wrote:

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:
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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.

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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/
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But more perhaps more interesting is how do you know that you " needed
a gun to fend off armed robbers"?
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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)

Youngstown has much more crime than Poland. So does Philadelphia, Cleveland, DC, LA, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, etc etc etc
But I've ridden in all of them, always unarmed. I've ridden in most neighborhoods in Youngstown. The worst crime I ever encountered was to have a cyclometer swiped, once in Poland Township, once in Ireland.
After 70+ years of such experiences, am I really supposed to pretend "This could be the day I'll have to blow somebody away to save my life"?
No. At some point, repeatedly fearing something that has never happened crosses over into phobia.
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- Frank Krygowski