I started riding back in the early 70's and would have thought this kind of crap would have stopped by now! I could rant on and on about by horror stories with over 30 years of riding here in good ol West-by-god-Virginia.One of the worst was a bunch of punks got out of their car and tried to cut me with broken soda bottles (32oz returnables pre-2liter,like I said I've been riding for years) lucky for me some buddies happened by.......I haven't had on incident though since I've been carrying a cell phone pouch on my messenger bag strap,,,just point it at em like your taking their ever lovin picture,and then call 911. Damnest thing nobody likes to get caught. 4 on one ain't cool though, being a tree huggin hippie type I never thought I would tell anyone this but,,,,,I'd consider carrying a gun for awhile.
-------JJ