Originally Posted by
Doohickie
Interesting approach. Maybe the difference in gender matters; when I ride I try to stay away from the main roads- a lot less traffic and I am more worried about careless drivers than da boyz in da hood.
It does. If something bad goes down I am more interested in witnesses - lots of decent folks travel these two roads as well - than self-defense. All I have on me is pepper spray and overeducated middle class sarcasm that uses words longer than three syllables. And main roads are heavily patrolled by cruisers looking after aforementioned decent folks.
OTOH, couple of male colleagues rode parts of the same route and had assorted objects thrown at them. I guess a chick does not invoke a spinal-column reflex to assert one's higher rank between males of the species. I am a WTF phenomenon, a white guy is trespassing.
YMMV
SF