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With any luck some jerks will take the lesson to heart.
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Andrew Muzi
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Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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AMuzi wrote:
https://710wor.iheart.com/content/20...rage-incident/

Detroit needs a mayor who will campaign donating Chinese safety flasher toys
to anyone in sight.

With any luck some jerks will take the lesson to heart.

Like, "Don't go into a Detroit traffic argument armed with a knife!"

Don't hassle me - I'm riding my bike
 

On 7/3/2020 9:50 AM, AMuzi wrote:
https://710wor.iheart.com/content/20...rage-incident/


With any luck some jerks will take the lesson to heart.

I wonder how far apart they were when the knife guy began approaching?
Apparently a fast guy with a knife can win over a gun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0h...LRYi6O-rEPG3cw


--
- Frank Krygowski

Don't hassle me - I'm riding my bike
 

On Friday, July 3, 2020 at 8:47:36 AM UTC-7, Sepp Ruf wrote:
AMuzi wrote:
https://710wor.iheart.com/content/20...rage-incident/

Detroit needs a mayor who will campaign donating Chinese safety flasher toys
to anyone in sight.

With any luck some jerks will take the lesson to heart.

Like, "Don't go into a Detroit traffic argument armed with a knife!"

Exactly, the driver should have been pack'n. It should have been some Quentin Tarantino-esqe shootout.

This definitely proves the superiority of handlebar baskets. Just keep your Glock in there with your posies and donettes. I'd have to reach around to my jersey pocket, and any decent gun would probably stretch the hell out of it. I need the Garmin gun mount.

-- Jay Beattie.

Don't hassle me - I'm riding my bike
 

On 7/3/2020 3:10 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, July 3, 2020 at 8:47:36 AM UTC-7, Sepp Ruf wrote:
AMuzi wrote:
https://710wor.iheart.com/content/20...rage-incident/

Detroit needs a mayor who will campaign donating Chinese safety flasher toys
to anyone in sight.

With any luck some jerks will take the lesson to heart.

Like, "Don't go into a Detroit traffic argument armed with a knife!"

Exactly, the driver should have been pack'n. It should have been some Quentin Tarantino-esqe shootout.

This definitely proves the superiority of handlebar baskets. Just keep your Glock in there with your posies and donettes.

Well, there's a tradeoff between a handlebar basket and a handlebar bag.
With the basket, the gun's easily visible but it bounces around.
Sometimes it slides under the donettes, slowing your draw time.

The handlebar bag can have a special holster pocket. But then there are
tradeoffs between an inside pocket over an outside pocket. Inside for
concealed carry, but you lose a second flipping the bag open. Outside
for open carry, but some people get touchy about that.

Being a good-old-boy American bicyclist can be complicated! That's why
most of them drive pickups.

--
- Frank Krygowski

Don't hassle me - I'm riding my bike
 

On 7/3/2020 12:10 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, July 3, 2020 at 8:47:36 AM UTC-7, Sepp Ruf wrote:
AMuzi wrote:
https://710wor.iheart.com/content/20...rage-incident/

Detroit needs a mayor who will campaign donating Chinese safety flasher toys
to anyone in sight.

With any luck some jerks will take the lesson to heart.

Like, "Don't go into a Detroit traffic argument armed with a knife!"

Exactly, the driver should have been pack'n. It should have been some Quentin Tarantino-esqe shootout.

This definitely proves the superiority of handlebar baskets. Just keep your Glock in there with your posies and donettes. I'd have to reach around to my jersey pocket, and any decent gun would probably stretch the hell out of it. I need the Garmin gun mount.

-- Jay Beattie.

The driver brought a knife to a gun fight.

This reminds me of visiting my family in Florida one year. There was a
TV news story about a woman who had dropped her purse in Publix (a
supermarket) and her gun had gone off. The news crew was interviewing
other women shoppers about the incident. The women were criticizing the
shopper with the errant gun for bringing the wrong type of gun to the
supermarket, and were showing the news crews their own guns.

Don't hassle me - I'm riding my bike
 

On 7/3/2020 2:10 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, July 3, 2020 at 8:47:36 AM UTC-7, Sepp Ruf wrote:
AMuzi wrote:
https://710wor.iheart.com/content/20...rage-incident/

Detroit needs a mayor who will campaign donating Chinese safety flasher toys
to anyone in sight.

With any luck some jerks will take the lesson to heart.

Like, "Don't go into a Detroit traffic argument armed with a knife!"

Exactly, the driver should have been pack'n. It should have been some Quentin Tarantino-esqe shootout.

This definitely proves the superiority of handlebar baskets. Just keep your Glock in there with your posies and donettes. I'd have to reach around to my jersey pocket, and any decent gun would probably stretch the hell out of it. I need the Garmin gun mount.

-- Jay Beattie.


Basket?
We sell a nice neoprene holster with velcro mounts, $34.95

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Don't hassle me - I'm riding my bike
 

On 7/3/2020 3:53 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 7/3/2020 3:10 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, July 3, 2020 at 8:47:36 AM UTC-7, Sepp Ruf wrote:
AMuzi wrote:
https://710wor.iheart.com/content/20...rage-incident/


Detroit needs a mayor who will campaign donating Chinese
safety flasher toys
to anyone in sight.

With any luck some jerks will take the lesson to heart.

Like, "Don't go into a Detroit traffic argument armed
with a knife!"

Exactly, the driver should have been pack'n. It should
have been some Quentin Tarantino-esqe shootout.

This definitely proves the superiority of handlebar
baskets. Just keep your Glock in there with your posies
and donettes.

Well, there's a tradeoff between a handlebar basket and a
handlebar bag. With the basket, the gun's easily visible but
it bounces around. Sometimes it slides under the donettes,
slowing your draw time.

The handlebar bag can have a special holster pocket. But
then there are tradeoffs between an inside pocket over an
outside pocket. Inside for concealed carry, but you lose a
second flipping the bag open. Outside for open carry, but
some people get touchy about that.

Being a good-old-boy American bicyclist can be complicated!
That's why most of them drive pickups.


Cyclists's pistols were a very common accessory at one time.
It's not an overly complex problem. Upscale model at 12
shillings:

https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/wp...ist-pistol.jpg

N.B. Tom in Oakland, tagline: "I fear no tramp."

more, many with folding trigger for pocket carry:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bicycle+pi...ages&ia=images

That said, urban environments present almost infinite
possibilities for trouble and for liability.
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Don't hassle me - I'm riding my bike
 

On 7/3/2020 4:13 PM, sms wrote:
On 7/3/2020 12:10 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, July 3, 2020 at 8:47:36 AM UTC-7, Sepp Ruf wrote:
AMuzi wrote:
https://710wor.iheart.com/content/20...rage-incident/


Detroit needs a mayor who will campaign donating Chinese
safety flasher toys
to anyone in sight.

With any luck some jerks will take the lesson to heart.

Like, "Don't go into a Detroit traffic argument armed
with a knife!"

Exactly, the driver should have been pack'n. It should
have been some Quentin Tarantino-esqe shootout.

This definitely proves the superiority of handlebar
baskets. Just keep your Glock in there with your posies
and donettes. I'd have to reach around to my jersey
pocket, and any decent gun would probably stretch the hell
out of it. I need the Garmin gun mount.

-- Jay Beattie.

The driver brought a knife to a gun fight.

This reminds me of visiting my family in Florida one year.
There was a TV news story about a woman who had dropped her
purse in Publix (a supermarket) and her gun had gone off.
The news crew was interviewing other women shoppers about
the incident. The women were criticizing the shopper with
the errant gun for bringing the wrong type of gun to the
supermarket, and were showing the news crews their own guns.


When I worked in Texas, women commonly drove their pickups
to the grocery with a rifle in the rack (and likely
something in the purse as well). Can't recall any incidents
with either.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Don't hassle me - I'm riding my bike
 

On Fri, 03 Jul 2020 08:50:02 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

https://710wor.iheart.com/content/20...rage-incident/

With any luck some jerks will take the lesson to heart.

Or perhaps they will just buy a gun :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.