And if she gets jacked a month from now would she be deadly by then? Harmful even? Not likely. What a total waste of space on the Bike Forum server this thread is. I don't understand the periodic necessity of the white majority on Internet forums to troll race baited threads before the world. The answer to the o.p. is simply not to ride a bicycle through sketchy parts of town if it causes her anxiety. Period. End of thread. Last thing I expected to find in A&S. Silly me. Isn't there enough controversy and poor taste in arguing helmet/no helmet or take the lane vs FRAP? Poor black and latino residents of sketchy neighborhoods have way more on their plate than they can deal with. The very, very, very few who want to add on top of that, felony assault or robbery of a white woman are NOT going to be intimidated or otherwise deterred from their objective by ANY self defense stratagem presented in earlier posts. And all of you know it. Including the o.p. who is likely bored, racist and male. In about that order

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