Well done. And I hope I've made it clear that I myself would give up the bike and run and run and run some more before I'd draw a handgun. And any sort of knife or club I'm not sure I'd have the skillset to use.
One thing I'm learning quick around here too is that there are LOTS of older (as in less valuable) bikes perfectly good for commuting, especially steel framed mountain bikes. Just this morning I slapped a set of Serfas Drifters on a thirty year old Rockhopper, elastomer fork the works, one of the ORIGINAL mountain bikes, with near road bike geometry :cool:
Mike