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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Disc brake maintenance tips
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 14:35:06 -0500
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On 7/3/2024 2:09 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 7/3/2024 10:45 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 7/3/2024 8:49 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 7/3/2024 8:36 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>> On 7/2/2024 10:06 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> What would be pertinent would be innumerable reports of 
>>>>> old folks in Florida going for a walk in their 
>>>>> residential neighborhoods in Florida and having to 
>>>>> shoot... well, whoever Mr. Tricycle fantasizes would 
>>>>> attack him.
>>>>>
>>>>> Got a bunch of citations like that?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's, just as cycling in traffic, a personal evaluation 
>>>> of risk and extremely situational besides personal.
>>>
>>> Of course it's situational and personal.
>>>
>>> It was because of the "situational" part that I asked 
>>> about defensive use of guns required by old guys walking 
>>> around their residential neighborhoods at 4 AM. My bet 
>>> that it's zero in our tricycle rider's area.
>>>
>>> But condoning behavior because it's "personal" opens up 
>>> approval to a world of weirdness.
>>>
>>> It might be fun to think of examples; for example, what 
>>> if a guy was afraid to ever leave his house because he 
>>> was afraid a spider might bite him outdoors?
>>>
>>> It would be legal. It would be personal. It would still 
>>> be illogical and paranoid.
>>>
>>> - Frank Krygowski
>>>
>>
>> You don't know what you don't know.
>>
>> https://www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/article/lost-coast-trail-hiker-19545918.php
> 
> Among other things, I don't know how a hiking accident in 
> California is pertinent to a discussion about taking a 
> neighborhood walk in a Florida suburb.
> 

Well yes, assaulted with a bladed weapon and thrown off a 
cliff is highly unlikely on a Florida wilderness bicycle 
path. No cliffs.
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971