ya'll need to become familiarized with the "riding rock". i used to always have a rock on me that was easy to access while riding around baton rouge cause i'd get messed with so often by folks in cars. i only really used it once, after having a 40 bottle thrown in front of my bike, but i broke out the back window of a truck and that one window has made all the other injustices against me fade away! of course i had to jump some train tracks and ride across a golf course to escape... but it was an adventure!