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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:10:03 -0400
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:23:57 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
wrote:

>AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> On 9/13/2024 12:37 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>> AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>> On 9/13/2024 8:15 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>>> AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On 9/12/2024 8:57 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>>> On 9/12/2024 8:50 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 9/12/2024 6:45 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 9/12/2024 5:40 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:13:42 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Understood. Your near-default point is "Everyone's
>>>>>>>>>>> decision is correct."
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> My frequent point is "You don't need to go to extremes
>>>>>>>>>>> to be safe,
>>>>>>>>>>> especially on a bike."
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> My frequent point is that safe is a subjective evaluation.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I feel safe on a bicycle sidepath, you don't.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> You feel safe on a bicycle sidepath only if you've got a
>>>>>>>>> handgun ready to draw and fire within a second or two.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Correct. Suits his situation, in his personal evaluation.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> As always, when seconds matter, 911 is just twenty minutes
>>>>>>>> away.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> "His situation" is shared by many other path users. I'm
>>>>>>> betting he's the only one so afraid as to never ride without
>>>>>>> his gun.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Maybe not for those previously mugged.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> There seems to be lack of equipment to carry a gun on a bike, and indeed
>>>>> it’s not mentioned by American YouTubers and so on.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It appears not to be sold which suggests doesn’t really have a market, and
>>>>> you can buy all sorts of cycling accessories for you phone and so on.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Let alone that from how he described it, it’s a nice pleasurable place to
>>>>> ride. Doesn’t sound risky or deprived which often are linked for well
>>>>> reasons.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That he wants to and so on, well that’s his choice and so on but doesn’t
>>>>> sound like he rides in a risky area.
>>>>> 
>>>> Easily fabricated as Mr Tricycle has or just one click on
>>>> Amazon:
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/bikase-gunkase-motorcycle-subcompact-handguns/dp/b0839m7t3y
	
>>>> 
>>>> I'll bet you £1 that your local London area shop doesn't
>>>> stock them. Different market entirely.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I admire his initiative and effort to do so but that’s kinda of the point,
>>> I suspect that your bike shop and one’s local to Him would also not stock
>>> them or similar.
>>> 
>>> As it’s just not a thing for most cyclists after all if it was be more than
>>> random Amazon bits.
>>> 
>> 
>> We stock it and sell them occasionally. Less than inner 
>> tubes, but some.
>> 
>
>That I’m mildly surprised by, though I’m still unconvinced it’s common or
>more bike related company’s would make such stuff.
>
>Roger Merriman

The Catrike is a unique situation. There's no way to put on a
handlebar bag or a top bar bag, or the little holster shown above.
I've been working with PVC pipe a lot:
 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/j_soloman/53992548551/in/datetaken/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/j_soloman/53992540086/in/datetaken/

and it looked easier than it was. It involved heating and bending the
Pvc Pipe and quickly cooling it to lock the shape. Then cutting and
grinding make it so the Kydex holster fit and locked into it.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/j_soloman/53145141933/in/datetaken/

The Kydex holster is important because it protects the trigger. I can
use that same Kydex holster with out any changes to clip onto my belt
for inside the waistband carry.

--
C'est bon
Soloman