Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 09:54:27 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:

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)

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Youngstown has much more crime than Poland. So does Philadelphia,
Cleveland, DC, LA, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, etc etc etc
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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.
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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"?

I haven't seen any suggestions as to what you're supposed to do. As
for me, I favor people making their own choices and otherwise minding
their own business.

No. At some point, repeatedly fearing something that has never happened
crosses over into phobia.

That's from a guy who fears he'd get shot by having a gun in his home.
How often has he been shot because of a gun in his home?

--
C'est bon
Soloman