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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: bike path news
Date: 11 Mar 2025 13:30:10 GMT
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Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> 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 admit that part of the fun of having a gun is watching the anti-gun
> loonies rant and rave about it, but really, I need to carry it on my
> rides to justify the slick PVC hardware I designed and made for it. It
> takes the Kydex waistband holster that supplies a trigger guard.
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/j_soloman/54378771817/
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman
> 

Yup I *think* that you’ve said that you enjoy the spannering more than the
riding almost which is probably quite common for some folks and likely to
be high in this group really.

Roger Merriman