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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: connected lights
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:48:19 -0500
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On 9/13/2024 1:16 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 9/13/2024 2:04 PM, AMuzi 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.
> 
> Actual numbers would tell us a lot.
> 

Small. It's a specialty item.

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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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