Re: bike path news

On 11 Mar 2025 10:58:45 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:

John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:

On 11 Mar 2025 10:23:20 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
 

AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 3/10/2025 6:21 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/10/2025 2:38 PM, AMuzi wrote:

 
People form their own opinions and arrange their own
behavior based on their own situation.

 
Yes - or based on their own phobias. I know people who are
horribly afraid of spiders, garter snakes, honeybees,
graveyards and more.
 
Smart? No. Logical? No. But at least they're not carrying
lethal weaponry.
 

My daughter for example used to take the train to work in
inclement or bitter cold Chicago winters.
No longer. ...

 
You're the anecdote master, Andrew. But IIRC you've not yet
found a horrifying anecdote about quiet bike paths in
suburban Florida, near our timid tricycle rider.
 

 
The murder of this thread was of an unarmed man on a bike path.
 

 
Just because it can happen doesn?t mean it will happen, going out on limb
but I suspect that CatTrike Ryder will be perfectly safe with or without
carrying any guns on his rides.
 
I suspect he knows this as well, but simply likes having the gun on him?
 
Roger Merriman

 
I spent more then a year in Vietnam where people did, on occasion,
shoot at you and I can assure you that a firearm did give you a
certain sense of security :-)
 
Even when they weren't shooting :-)

>
I’m assuming this was the Vietnam war or similar which is a kinda difficult
risk case to put it mildly!
>
And yes there are places where having a gun on you seems a wise decision,
riding your bike even in America doesn’t seems likely hence the absence of
bike specific kit to do so.
>
Roger Merriman

So far, nobody has offered any valid evidence as to why I shouldn't
carry a gun on my bike rides other than that they don't approve of it.

As for kit, there are many pieces of gear with which to do it. I chose
to make my own.

--
C'est bon
Soloman