Originally Posted by
wipekitty
Crime can definitely be a concern - and for me, it was always even more reason to ride my bike! Back when I was fun, there were a couple of venues that I frequented for local rock shows. One was only four blocks away, but people had been getting mugged in my neighborhood, so I always rode there rather than walking. The other was about four miles away and in an even worse neighborhood, and I found it safer to ride and park right outside rather than walking alone several blocks back to a car.
I've had a few super sketchy encounters at night on my bike, but it's been easy enough to get away. I just pretend I'm being chased by farm dogs
Yeah, I once outrode a guy trying to jack my bike at night. I bragged about it for a while because the guy was about 30 years younger than me, but nowhere near as fast! Sometimes I mentally rehearse how I would get away from somebody in a car--hop a curb, cut through a vacant lot, wrong way on a one-way, and so forth. Generally I feel safer than I did 10 or 20 years ago, since the street crime rates have gone down a lot most places.