Cycling with guns

sean65

:shock:

I've already posted this finding in the Touring section but it bothers me so I'll post it here as well to reach a wider audience.

Whilst searching on Wiggle for rack bags I came across the Knog Pod. As always I click the photo in the hope of seeing a bigger picture and sure enough it show's an extra picture of the rack bag open.

To illustrate it's size, Knog have placed a rugby ball and a gun in the bag :?:

Click the photo in this link. What's the story Knog? Surely a banana would have illustrated the point just as well.


http://www.wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.a ... runk%20Bag

meagain

It is an USA "football" and in that fair land few would go riding any where off the beaten track without being armed. Bit like a mile down the road from me really!

As they say on US m'cycle forums, the best deterrent against dangerous cagers is to carry your weapon where it can be seen. It is a given that would not ride unarmed. About time we were given the same basic rights to self defence.

Bianchi Boy

Have you not played 'Shoot the Rugby Ball' before. It's great fun, andthis is just what you need when cycling to a competition.

aracer

meagain wrote:

As they say on US m'cycle forums, the best deterrent against dangerous cagers is to carry your weapon where it can be seen. It is a given that would not ride unarmed. About time we were given the same basic rights to self defence.

Trouble is that over there the car drivers pack weapons too, so it's not like you're ahead on the self-defence stakes - it just becomes more likely for somebody to be killed.

meagain

Not ahead, no, but at least unlike here on an equal footing.

JonBurns

I'm disappointed I thought it was going to be a shotgun.

gundersen

personally I think that anybody that has a gun deserves to be shot - dead

Salsiccia

gundersen wrote:

personally I think that anybody that has a gun deserves to be shot - dead

Don't beat around the bush - say what you mean...

giant_man

gundersen wrote:

personally I think that anybody that has a gun deserves to be shot - dead

totally agree!

geoff_ss

When we were visiting some American cycling friends in N Carolina a few years ago we were warned not to give the 'finger' to motorists who gave us any agro on the grounds that they were likely to be armed. Not a happy thought and I wouldn't want to live in a country where everyone carried a gun as a matter of course.

In fact we always found US motorists generally polite both in NC and in New Hampshire on an earlier holiday. We only rode in rural areas though. However a fried of ours was shot whilst riding in Arizona by a load of rednecks in a ubiquitous fwd truck. It was only a salt load from a shot gun but still quite frightening.

I wouldn't go quite as far as gundersen but I have a lot of sympathy with his view.

Geoff

Garybee

gundersen wrote:

personally I think that anybody that has a gun deserves to be shot - dead

cyclingfury

The bag appears to have been filled with sporting equipment, ie a ball and a starting pistol.
I just wondering if the ball is in fact an American football. I know that American Football officials used to mark the end of a game by firing a starting pistol, but that was years ago and now they just use a whistle. I agree it's a very strange way of scaling the size of the bag!

sean65

Knog are an Aussie outfit.

I'd imagine the gun is for use Crocadile Dundee styley to protect yourself from crocs.

Nothing more malice than that. Or for starting a race.

Still bothers me though :x

Pirahna

gundersen wrote:

personally I think that anybody that has a gun deserves to be shot - dead

Guns are great fun. I like nothing more than shooting Blue Tits off the peanut feeder for a bit of target practice.

proto

If you've got some time to 'kill', then check out this 'what gun?' thread on cyclingforums. Up to 155 pages now. Hilarious.

http://www.cyclingforums.com/t180561.html

term1te

I often see young army recruits on national service cycling to the station with an assault rifle over their shoulder. Freaked me a bit the first time, but you get used to it after a while. Apparently they don't carry any ammunition.

In fact the Swiss army have their own military bikes http://www.militaervelo.ch/armee-fahrrad/armee-fahrrad.html

super duck

I like nothing more than shooting Blue Tits off the peanut feeder for a bit of target practice

- yes save the envirmont.

Ok back on topic - if you do carrie a gun around when cycling beware that the cops could come down hevey if caught - espshly if caught in resdentaial arears.

Porgy

super duck wrote:

resdentaial arears.

i try not to get into arears with my resdentaials

claash

Like term1te I also live in Switzerland. It is interesting how you don't notice guns when the police, army, etc display theirs so openly!!

As for the swiss army cyclists:

Last week we had the full batallion (or are they a squadron ) cycling past our house: wearing full combat gear including guns (fully loaded I presume)

Must admit I felt really sorry for the poor buggers it was 6:00 am and they were all dressed in camouflage, no reflectors, no lights, riding on a poorly lit road which the lorries belt along..... there were a couple of near misses.

Back on topic : civilians shoudn't need a gun bag on a bike

term1te

Personally I see no reason for anyone to carry a hand gun, but if they do, they should be made to wear a large target pinned to their backs to identify them.

A soldier on the tram dropped his gun when it stopped suddenly, the gun slid down the tram, and no one batted an eye.

Adamskii

Re: http://www.cyclingforums.com/t180561.html

Jesus, I'd have been shot along time ago if I lived in America! Madness, complete madness.

aarw

That's the craziest thing i've read in looooooong time! it's fuked up world over there....

andy_wrx

I love this idea that a New World Conspiracy is trying to take over, and all that's stopping it is that so many Americans carry guns...