Originally Posted by
hanjin
Come on man!! The eastern warsaw pact is just as bad. I use to live in Poland born and rasied. Been all over that region, hell your bordered by Romania for christ sake!! Don't get me wrong its beautiful but you'd get killed for you bike there quicker than in Houston.
Well, Romania can be rough I guess. But that's a whole different ball game... extreme poverty explains a lot.
However, in pretty much all European countries including not-too-well-off Hungary, you only need to think about self-defense if you decide to ride through the sketchiest parts of a large city at night. Even then only if you're a bit paranoid.
There are ****ty neighborhoods here that I wouldn't like to walk through at night, but that's because of aggressive drunks more than armed robbers. Cycling is not much of a problem even in those areas. You're gone by the time anyone really notices you.
Getting killed for your bike... no bloody way unless you pull out a gun, the guy takes it away from you and uses it when you take out a knife as well... Realistically, you could get beaten up and that's it. I guess one could get fatally stabbed in a fight but that is more likely to happen in a bar fight anyway.
Originally Posted by
hanjin
And in most place in europe you can't even think about a CHL license.
And that's how it should be IMO.