Don’t have a great need for Bear Spray in the UK.
Young ladies with face glued to phone screen walking out into the road spray, yes, bear spray, no.
DG…
Works great on
aggressive, trash-digging 'bears' that bother my bike !!! - and are dumb/ determined enough to hang around after the F 110 motion alarm goes off.
I dumped the 4lb Abus for a cheap, ultra-light combo-lock cable tied in a knot around the frame. Touch the cable the alarm
goes off and won't stop for one minute. It's crazy sensitive; rechargeable; remote controlled (car style keychain fob), too loud to know where on the bike it's even coming from and (by a long shot)
the lightest in it's class.
For short runs to the store, Fox five-point-three is handy.
For Cross Country, Bear Spray for sure.
A
Zero Tolerance attitude helps.
I really like
the light weight !!! Same with the F 110 alarm. It prevents preventable altercations.
I see a lot of
heavy metal on member's machines -
but no alarm systems?
This is [not] the way 
!!!!
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I do have a fishing kit that adds some weight (he he he)
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A person that picks up trash not litters it, my '
Zero pollution, better than when I arrived is a
policy' that includes
noise pollution. I'm certain other folks didn't
come out to be forced to listen to my music. Those who are not should ask their parent or guardian. If you really want to impress us, consider emollition.
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Several
dangerous problems arise adding weight to a bike.
Poor input control. Top-heavy fork swing. Incorrect Balance. Poor performance. Sluggish acceleration. Maybe you're personally heavy? Well
you can and
do shift that lard around when riding, but a junkyard on your bars will shift it's weight regardless the desire. It becomes
the bike that bites - with sudden '
10 x the effort to control' stresses.
The effect's exponential as the center of balance changes with attitude - like turning.
But, my big reason for dislike of junk on my bars is the dang '
unintended fork swing'.
I run a 'V' stand on my last ebike and it damaged my wiring
.
My last bike, fork swing stretched the wiring
causing strands to tear loose so, (1) performance signals were diminished, (2) It caused intermittent power failures.
I replaced the loom with new wires and bike runs amazing.
If you must roast a suckling pig on your bars, the only remedy I found is carrying a
Park Tool HBH 3. The cheaper HBH 2
did not fit my bars, frame, or geometry, conflicted with my minimalist, titanium wire water bottle holder and I had to remove the King Cage
Minithing cage from the downtube - where I keep my bear spray.
That crossed the line !!!
KK's anything cage is even better. Super
light and more utility.
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Gumbo's fishing kit: (CF) 230gm Rod (ti guides of course) and 310gm (alloy) Reel. Plano plastic tackle boxes stacked on the rack held to each other with hook-and-loop patches.
The composite (alloy/ plastic) table with standard pannier lock-clips
folds out at waist level for bait prep and sits level when the bike's on the kickstand.
My chair's about half a Clique chair's weight - Total right and center bias: 8lbs, 4oz - w/ 7lbs right side.
Left side has a 1.5lb Pannier with (1/2 gallon) 4lbs of distilled H2O frozen in my drinking water bag, a 30liter fish bag and whatever food I bring. About 7lbs
When I gather oysters, there're places along the way (a mile or two) I can obtain 10lbs of ice for the fish bag.
All weight is below my butt. Water and my catch's weight is about where my axles are.
The entire kit (under 16lbs), has little effect on handling, acceleration or my speed, but some added wind resistance and takes 5mins to remove and get naked again.
Form fits function.
