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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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Subject: Re: A Bicycle Safety Parable
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:07:50 -0700
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On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:07:26 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:

>On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:14:47 -0400, Catrike Ryder
><Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:43:29 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>><frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On 7/21/2024 2:43 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I sometimes see real alligators on the trail, and quite often,
>>>> poisonous snakes.
>>>
>>>Here's my wife, riding her Bike Friday past a roadside alligator in 
>>>Okefenokee a few years ago. Without a gun!!!
>>>
>>>https://www.flickr.com/photos/16972296@N08/53011489063/in/dateposted-public/
>>
>>What's your point? Nobody carries a gun for protection against
>>alligators.
>
>True.  Would a pike work with an alligator on land?
><https://www.google.com/search?q=bicycle+jousting&tbm=isch>

Oops.  Not a pike, which at 3 - 6 meters is too long for use on a
bicycle.  I should have suggested a lance, which is 2 - 3 meters long.

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