Originally Posted by
Wildwood
My last serious dog incident was almost 15 yrs ago in Missouri, on a rural-ish road. But avoided many of the dirt 'farm' roads. Pepper spray was only used once and I was never bitten or taken down. Might have tested MaxHR a couple of times, but I was a young man in my early 50s.
Here in the backwoods of LittleRock Ar. things have improved in a big way since the early eighties.
One of my favorite stories from back then was about an early summer evening group ride on one of the country roads near
here when a redneck in his truck decided he was the law and started harassing the group.
When he drove off in a macho burst of rubber and oil smoke his transmission seized and the truck ground to a halt
and summary justice was dispensed.
We now have a large river trail with a lot of road spurs leading to and away from it and people are a lot more
used to seeing bikes around, hell even some of the truck drivers are riding.
( Just so there's no bias seen I drive a truck. )
Also round here you have to know your routes, some are never ride, some are sometimes ride some are always ride.