stevepusser

I wonder why people freak out about a bear attack when I'll bet a thousand bucks that dogs cause many more injuries and deaths for cyclists. I've seen a couple horrible injuries myself due to dogs jumping onto the cyclist in front of me while rolling downhill. Once from a driveway, once unsecured from the bed of a passing pickup (both cases, the dog's owners had no insurance whatsoever, too. First they both tried to claim they didn't own the dog; it just happened to be hitching a ride in the pickup, for example).

Anyway, since pepper spray often just seems to add extra flavor for grizzlies, I wonder if some kind of igniter for the spray, much like the hairspray flamethrower, would provide any extra deterrent. At least if you're mauled to death by a flaming grizzly, you could die knowing their woodland home would soon be going up in a holocaust. Dibs on the Kickstarter!