Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 10:46:38 -0600, 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:

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

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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.
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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.
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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
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Not all that rare. Stabbings are prevalent on public transit
in large cities.
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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/
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And defensive use of blades is regular (from what I see,
about 1 out of 50 or so).
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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.
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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

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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.

We may soon see some more changes in gun laws. I hope it does not go
towards allowing open carry, which I believe to be a very stupid to
do.

--
C'est bon
Soloman