Originally Posted by
howsteepisit
Strange that such a "common occurrence" is rarely reported even by the ever vigilant posters on the A&S forum, much less the news media. Perhaps your and my definitions of common are not the same? Even once a day throughout the entire US among many thousands of daily bike trips is not "common". All too frequent, I might agree with but calling gang style attacks on the open roads common is nothing but fear mongering.
It was mentioned on A&S. I just didn't include the link to the BF posting or any of the news articles.
Here are two links about the story that was already posted:
http://www.thewashcycle.com/2013/06/...nch-trail.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...b5a_story.html
Also, When I said 'common', I meant to the extent of this attack on the local trail. Of course nationwide trail attacks of this nature is not 'common', but frequent. But I definitely agree with you, about the fear mongering on the roads.