Do you carry a weapon?

[classic33]

apparently one risk with bears is startling them - so people are advised to wear bells - a bit like morris dancers. If they hear you coming live-and-let-live seems fine - but making them jump isn't so good. And as a last resort a pepper spray.

Then as someone above has said, you need to distinguish between black bears & grizzly bears. Their dung is a good clue - black bears' dung has bits of nuts & berries in it whilst grizzly bear dung contains bells and smells of pepper...

...I thank you. I'm here all week

Don't think it'd be the bear leaving anything to check!

 

[classic33]

Can you provide proof of this assertion?

God the Father, God the Son & God the Holy Spirit.
No mention of God the Mother or God the Daughter!

 

[Piemaster]

apparently one risk with bears is startling them - so people are advised to wear bells - a bit like morris dancers. If they hear you coming live-and-let-live seems fine - but making them jump isn't so good. And as a last resort a pepper spray

Aren't bears fairly intelligent? How long will it take them before the bells stop meaning "somethings coming" and start meaning "dinnertime"?

 

[classic33]

Aren't bears fairly intelligent? How long will it take them before the bells stop meaning "somethings coming" and start meaning "dinnertime"?

Stick one on a cow and let it wander around then.
Dinnertime would be elsewhere.

 

[morrisman]

God the Father, God the Son & God the Holy Spirit.
No mention of God the Mother or God the Daughter!

Aphrodite, Athena, Hera, Shakti, Xi Wangmu, Asherah to name but a few.

 

[ufkacbln]

Aren't bears fairly intelligent? How long will it take them before the bells stop meaning "somethings coming" and start meaning "dinnertime"?

OMG.... Pavlov's bears!!

 

[paddy01]

We could go for Shroedingers bear.. we'd need a bigger box though.. and whilst we wouldn't know if it was dead or alive you can bet it will be very, very angry..

 

[up hill struggle]

someone above has said, you need to distinguish between black bears & grizzly bears. Their dung is a good clue - black bears' dung has bits of nuts & berries in it whilst grizzly bear dung contains bells and smells of pepper...

so would you suggest I ask them to take a dump so I can poke through it and see what kind of bear in about to be attacked by,

there's an idea!

may seeing me poking through its cr@p would be enough to put it off eating me. "I'm not putting my mouth anywhere near that dirty git, I'm off to bite somebody else"

 

[Gravity Aided]

I didn't know James Bond was from Luton?

I don't know, his father was a
Andrew Bond from Glencoe Scotland,
and his mother Monique Delacroix, from Switzerland.
So I suppose Luton is within the range of possibilities.
Although Pearson claims Wattenscheid, West Germany.
I was thinking more along the lines of an elegantly tailored yet imminently reliable and tasteful weapon.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Did you hear Canadian Grizzlies are mating with Polar Bears who are moving south cos of climate change?

Know what the baby bears are called? "Growlers". I'm not making this up.

Get out the grenade launchers.

 

[Gravity Aided]

so would you suggest I ask them to take a dump so I can poke through it and see what kind of bear in about to be attacked by,

there's an idea!

may seeing me poking through its cr@p would be enough to put it off eating me. "I'm not putting my mouth anywhere near that dirty git, I'm off to bite somebody else"

You'll probably find some bear bells in the dung, as well.

 

[classic33]

Get out the grenade launchers.

Where to mount it on the bike for optimum usage?

 

[flyingfish]

Where to mount it on the bike for optimum usage?

If it faces rearwards the recoil will assist acceleration!
Pete

 

[classic33]

If it faces rearwards the recoil will assist acceleration!
Pete

You'd have trouble aiming it though!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

If it faces rearwards the recoil will assist acceleration!
Pete

You'd have trouble aiming it though!

If I came across a bear, I can assure you this would be pointed straight at it.