Pushed off this evening …..

[confusedcyclist]

I teach cycle specific defensive tactics. If fisticuffs is genuinely unavoidable then you can do some very unpleasant things to them with a bike if you've the skills, whereas if you're untrained its a hindrance leaving you at a tactical and positional disadvantage.

What options are there, aside from the ninja star chain ring?

 

[Fubar]

God sorry to hear that @Crankarm sounds absolutely shocking - worth reporting (if you haven't already done so) as they might have been up to no good elsewhere so would help Police to "join the dots". GWS.

 

[Jimmy Doug]

I teach it to ladies of very small stature as well as big hulking great mofos. A chainring in the chops or a crossbar across the shins is gonna make your eyes water regardless of the side of your opponent.

I'm trying to picture the chainring in the chops. Don't the wheels get in the way?

 

[potsy]

Any response from the police yet?

 

[Pale Rider]

Any response from the police yet?

I doubt Crankers has reported it - his choice, of course.

If it was me, I would report it as calmly and neutrally as I could.

I would prepare myself for the coppers to take very little interest, so as to be pleasantly surprised if they did.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

you can do some very unpleasant things to them with a bike if you've the skills,

What happens if your bike is heavy, you can't lift it?

 

[Pale Rider]

What happens if your bike is heavy, you can't lift it?

Reminds me of the 'comedian' Chubby Brown when he was accused of domestic violence.

Part way into the police interview, the copper asked him: "Come on, Chubby, why did you hit your partner with a candlestick?"

To which Chubby replied: "Because I couldn't lift the sideboard."

True story, Northumbria Police have the tape somewhere.