Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?

AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 2/6/2025 10:05 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 2/5/2025 9:13 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 2/4/2025 9:37 AM, AMuzi wrote:

 
Had he followed the rules, he'd be dead.

 
We've been through all this before, of course. And we all
know you, Andrew, are the master at finding links to truly
rare negative events.
 
But (again) if a person were to make their life decisions
based on the assumption that rare events would be happening
to them, they'd be living a weird life indeed.
 
Stay out of houses! People have died in them!
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/man-
hospitalized-serious-condition-car-crash-pasco-
county/67-20eb0233-763f-42de-a617-a5db70dd1c1a
 
 

 
Not all that rare. Stabbings are prevalent on public transit
in large cities.
 
Yesterday for example:
https://nypost.com/2025/02/05/us-news/bloody-outbreak-of-nyc-subway-crime-leaves-at-least-5-hurt-in-stabbings-slashings-and-a-beating-cops/
 
And defensive use of blades is regular (from what I see,
about 1 out of 50 or so).
 
Speaking of rare events, how many of the 400 million
firearms were used in magic spontaneous fatal negligent
discharges in the owner's home? Is it more than the 1 to 3
million defensive use incidents? Curious minds want to know.
 

 
While American cities do have higher violent crime rates, New York seems to
have about 4 million folks using Transit per day, which though perhaps a
bit low for the size of New York, London is 24 million per day. Does seem a
bit more car centric from what I can gathered.
 
But either way that’s a lot of people, who one assumes aren’t expecting to
have to deal with crime.
 
Roger Merriman

 
 
My daughter has been riding more in Chicago's miserable
winter as the trains, even in her upscale neighborhood, are
more dangerous that being run down in a snowy street.
Several murders this year at her nearby train station.
 

I believe Chicago is quite a bit more crime ridden than New York? Even so
violent mugging are rather risky even for the desperate, certainly in uk
any of this stuff is linked to youth or gang activity ie it’s between
people who know or at least know of each other than strangers.

Roger Merriman