How many of you carry a gun as part of your cycling equipment?



WD...thanks! I know Lakeshore and just looked at where Salida went.

I know there's a lot of really good training road inland, just South and East of Chardon. Years ago there was a road race that started in Chardon and ran around the countryside before running through Burton and back to the finish in Chardon. That was a fun race with good roads.
 
CAMPYBOB said:
Welshdude3,

I do a lot of business with two companies in Mentor and yeah, I spent 6 hours yesterday riding around Richfield, Boston, Peninsula, Hinckley, Ghent, Middleburg Heights, Ira, Jaite, Everett, Bath, Brecksville and North Royalton. The Cuyahoga Valley is spectacular this time of the year and my legs were shot to hell on this afternoon's 88° F recovery ride. It was worth the effort though as the countryside out in the burbs was beautiful. Ohio really is a paradise...uh...at least April to September!

Retirement is drawing close and I'm going to rent the house next to JH, in Tenn., and spend my winters riding where it isn't a New Ice Age from December through March!

BTW, you should go back towards the beginning of this thread and read the idiocy posted by Steve, the 'Water Policeman' and Tony Zachary, the ex-NFL playa. Between the two of them they didn't have the brains to pour **** out of a boot with the instructions printed all over the heel.
Not sure where you're going to be living in TN, but I used to live .5 mile from the Natchez Trace Parkway. It goes from Bellvue, TN to Natchez, MS. 442 miles. I lived right off mp423. Just portage the bike over a low fence and you're there. Phenomenal road surface. My ex has a rental cottage very reasonable. All the requisite accoutrements. Holds 4. Free wifi. Have done fixed 100s to the south and back. 300 ft drop and climb down and back. Night rides are amazing, too. Saw a wolverine one night in mid-October.

Anyway, if it might be something you'd be interested in doing I'll post a link. Also, my best friend still lives in TN and loves any excuse to ride the Trace. He's a VERY strong rider and a great, engaging guy. And an ace bike-tech as well. I'll check this thread from time to time.

Always great reading your posts. Somebody needs to collect them all and put out an I book. Call it 'Campy Bob Says...' Was reading one of your posts on another thread and almost burned out my android spitting coffee. lol Respect, man. WD3
 
Thanks, WD!

I honestly have little clue as to what retirement will hold and where I will spend it. At this point I'm leaning towards some sort of bus-based motor home and travelling to various areas to winter at and ride my motorcycles and bicycles. Moving around a lot allows me to be a complete asshole to many more people and also has the side benefit of keeping an escape vehicle nearby should the unruly mob of pitchfork and torch carrying folks with angry expressions exhaust my ammunition supply.

I do know I will spend time in Tenn., God willing. I've been down there multiple times and I really enjoy both the state and the people there.
 
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Wow, so you'll be sorta like The Ivisible Man. You'll need to paint your lcp camo, y'now? And how gonna hide it? He may have been invisible, but he was buck naked, too. It there such a thing as butt crack holster? Well, you'll figure it out.

Btw, my ex has an acre cleared and a gravel space just for the purpose of motorhomes. 110 hookup, too. Don't know if the WiFi goes out that far. Anyway, just one of 1000s of options for you.

You ever get over Pittsburgh way gimme a holler. The Great Allegheny Trail runs nearby where I live. WD3
 
When I go jogging, I carry a pepper spray and a golf umbrella.

Bicycling, I carry a pepper spray. I bike fast, avg 10mph and I avoid eye contact.

I ride mostly at the trails and at business complex road when its closed on weekends.
 
When I go jogging, I carry a pepper spray and a golf umbrella.

Bicycling, I carry a pepper spray. I bike fast, avg 10mph and I avoid eye contact.

I ride mostly at the trails and at business complex road when its closed on weekends.

Why would you go jogging with a gold umbrella? that sounds pretty bloody stupid to me. Also 10mph on a bike isn't fast.
 
"I avoid eye contact."

I avoid all contact.


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"Why would you go jogging with a gold umbrella?"

Hey...you never know when a round of golf is going to break out. Better to be prepared for rain and a quick stop at the 19th Hole for a beer or twelve.
 
How many people in San Berdoo wished they had been carrying a gun or two when Farook and his ***** wife ran amok?

Run juramentado! It was the same in 1899 until Pershing and the U.S. Army started shooting back.
 
This thread came to me as a real shock. A gun??While cycling?
I am not sure what to say. I can only blame it on the cultural difference and the fact you live in America...Here, in Eastern Europe, no one is even thinking of guns, let alone carrying them while cycling. I would never ever carry a gun with me even if I lived in fear like most of people in the USA do (according to the researches I occasionally read online). It is just plain wrong.
 
How many people in San Berdoo wished they had been carrying a gun or two when Farook and his ***** wife ran amok?

Run juramentado! It was the same in 1899 until Pershing and the U.S. Army started shooting back.


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"I would never ever carry a gun with me even if I lived in fear like most of people in the USA do (according to the researches I occasionally read online)."

Your 'research' is just plain wrong. We don't live in fear. I fear no man or beast. 'I' have the gun and the training to use it properly. Many Americans are armed and fear nothing.
 
I live in a quite safe neighborhood so I don't see it being necessary although it would be good to avoid situations with road ragers :D
 
Americans live 'in fear'...of Oldsmobiles!

We need to ban Oldsmobiles now! Do it for the children! We simply HAVE to stop these Drive-by Drivings! These Mass Runovers just can not be ignored any longer! These high-capacity vehicular weapons of mass destruction should only be in the hands of law enforcement and the military! They are simply too powerful to be used in the hands of mere 'civilians'!

And **** be upon all libtard morons.


http://www.newsnet5.com/news/las-vegas-strip-blocked-off-for-police-activity

1 dead, 36 injured after intentional crash on Las Vegas Strip

Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - A woman intentionally swerved her car onto a busy sidewalk two or three times Sunday and mowed down people outside a Las Vegas casino, killing one person and injuring at least 30 others, police said.

The vehicle was in the northbound lanes of Las Vegas Boulevard near Bellagio Way when it drove up onto the sidewalk about 6:30 p.m. in front of the Paris Hotel & Casino and struck pedestrians, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Peter Boffelli said. The person killed was an adult, he said.

Police believe this was an intentional act by a woman in her 20s who "went up and off these streets, two or possibly three times," Lt. Dan McGrath said. Police did not give a possible motive.

The woman is being interviewed and is having her blood drawn, police said. She is being held in the Clark County jail with charges pending.

"This is a huge tragedy that has happened on our Strip," Boffelli said.

The crash in front of the Paris and Planet Hollywood hotels occurred on a busy stretch of the Las Vegas Strip across from the dancing water fountains of the Bellagio hotel-casino where visitors crowd sidewalks as they was walk from one casino to another. The Miss Universe pageant was being held nearby at the Planet Hollywood Las Vegas Resort & Casino at the time of the crash.

Police are reviewing video from casino-hotel surveillance cameras, Capt. Brett Zimmerman said. "We know this was not an act of terrorism," he said. "We will comb through that footage to get a detailed idea of what occurred. "

After the crash, the vehicle continued to head east on Flamingo Road before it was found at a hotel, McGrath said. The driver was taken into custody at the hotel, police said. A 3-year-old child was in the vehicle with her but was not hurt, Zimmerman said.

McGrath said the 1996 Oldsmobile was registered in Oregon and the driver had recently moved to the area.

The pedestrians were not in the road and were not at fault, McGrath said.

Justin Cochrane, a property manager from Santa Barbara, California, said he was having dinner at a sidewalk restaurant outside the Paris Hotel and across the street from the famous Bellagio Fountain when the incident took place.

The car appeared to be going 30 to 40 mph when it first hit the pedestrians on Las Vegas Boulevard, Cochrane said. "It was just massacring people," he said.

The vehicle then went farther down the road and drove back into another crowd of pedestrians on the sidewalk, he said.

Cochrane said he couldn't understand why the car went into the crowd a second time. "Why would it slow to go around and then accelerate again?" he said. "I thought it's a crazy person."

Cochrane said he saw children and adults injured and on the ground as the car drove away.

Joel Ortega, 31, of Redlands, California, said he and his wife, Carla, were in Las Vegas for the weekend and found themselves blocked from walking on the sidewalk toward the Paris Hotel & Casino. They could see police investigating about a block away from the scene of the crash.

"At first, I thought it was a movie shoot," Joel Ortega said, "I thought maybe we'd see someone famous."

But then they learned that it was a crash scene. Joel Ortega said it made them remember how their neighborhood was disrupted after the Dec. 2 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, near their home.

Clark County Fire Chief Greg Cassell said the call for help came in at 6:38 p.m. and 70 emergency crew workers were sent to the scene.

Those in critical condition were treated at University Medical Center, Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and Spring Valley Hospital.

Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center spokeswoman Stacy Acquista said it has treated 13 people, including nine men and four women. So far, 10 have been treated and released, but three were downgraded from good to fair condition and will remain hospitalized.

Danita Cohen, spokeswoman for University Medical Center, said 15 crash victims were brought to its trauma center, one of whom died. Three remained in critical condition as of 11 p.m. Two others were treated and released.

The nine patients who remained in serious condition included an 11-year-old child. The others were adults. Some were from Montreal and needed a French translator.

Spring Valley Hospital spokeswoman Gretchen Papez said three people had received care for minor injuries and were being discharged as of 10:50 p.m.

On Oct. 24, a woman was accused of driving into a crowd during Oklahoma State's homecoming parade in Stillwater. Four people were killed, including a 2-year-old boy, and more than 40 were hurt. The driver, 25-year-old Adacia Chambers of Stillwater, was this month found competent to stand trial on four counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of assault.

In September 2005, three tourists were killed and nearly a dozen injured when a car barreled through the crowd on the Las Vegas Strip and crashed into a cement barrier in front of Bally's hotel-casino.

One of the busiest stretches of Las Vegas Boulevard was likely to remain closed through the night as the investigation continues, police said.
 
And one stupid interviewee remarked" I don't understand this is Las Vegas and it is Christmas time". Your point being? Crazy don't take holidays off.
 
Well, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...er...

A local 82-year old dude just confused the go pedal for the whoa pedal and smashed into the DMV office. Another senseless act of vehicular violence!

Ban cars!

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'Muricans iz skerred!!!!

2 injured in this little dust up. I think I know where you can get a deal on a Lexus with a little front end damage.
 
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No need to ban cars. Just ban automatic transmissions. You never heard of geezers mistaking the gas for the brake when they had to use a clutch. :D

And yes, I know how to drive one. ;)
 
Many years ago...in another lifetime...I was working out in Palm Springs, Caleefornya. I **** you not, it was about 105° in the shade...

This little old lady...not from Pasadena, but a recent immigrant from some country in Eastern Europe (where people are scared and according to my internet research never did learn their lessons about firearms despite having their dumb asses kicked around in TWO world Wars and many of them getting ass raped by both fascists AND a bunch of moron commies) got her driver's permit. The learner's type. She barely spoke a word of Engrish and I'll guarantee you she couldn't read it.

This being the early 1970's and in retarded Commiefornya, she could then legally drive with no one else in the car in order to pick up her driving instructor...brilliant concept, am I right?

She jumped in her Dodge Dart and thinking she put it in 'R', but accidentally really putting it in 'D' slammed the gas pedal to the floor, jumped the cement curb stop and busted right thru the brick wall of the first floor of the apartment building...and into the living room of the naked old guy that was taking his colostomy treatment.

Yeah, the **** flew!

After the wrecker removed the car and the old gentleman was taken away in the ambulance we helped recover as many bricks as we could for the masons that were going to arrive the next day to try and patch the huge hole in the wall...the one we covered with a quickie plywood job.

Where were we going with this thread??? Oh...right. Cars on the sidewalk and all that...
 
I'll bet it had those stupid push button shifters that Chrysler, in one of its typically insane attempts to be "innovative", put in Plymouth and Dodge compacts back then. Someone up here managed to drive into a river by pushing the wrong button.
 
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"I'll bet it had those stupid push button shifters that Chrysler, in one of its typically insane attempts to be "innovative", put in Plymouth and Dodge compacts back then."

We called those, "typewriter transmissions".

I can't remember want trans that Dart (may actually have been a Valiant...same same) had. No one was seriously hurt, but that old Chrysler product sure made brick & stick construction look really flimsy!

I remember a picture window got demolished and the front door to the guy's apartment was never going to open again the frame was so twisted...not that the place needed any more of an opening that that solid steel chrome plated bumper, grill and hood made.

I someone tried that **** today in a Kia Soul or some such plastique wonder they would probably be killed to death in the impact.
 
I live in Canada and neither I nor anyone I ride with carries a gun. It's extremely difficult to get a hand gun licence here, and almost impossible to get a concealed carry licence, so it's just really not something that happens. The only people I know who even own a handgun practice competitive shooting, which is how they managed to get the proper licencing in the first place. Neither of those people are allowed to actually carry their gun outside of competition and practice in designated areas.

I do carry bear spray however, just in case. I've never actually had to use it but it's reassuring to know that you can defend yourself if necessary. I've also got a 'self defense' key chain which, thankfully, I've also never had to use.
 

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