Carrying while biking

[sherm2954]

Hill people gear chest pack

[baggss]

Well first off, don't ride your bike at night. Just because you "can" or because it's your "right," doesn't make it a smart choice. I love running when it's cooler at night too, but I just don't.

Having your CCW isn't a piece of paper that states your "family jewels" are any bigger either.

First rule of CCW, avoid potential risk. Even though you have a right to go where you want when you want, common sense should prevail.
If you KNOW there are attacks occurring in a particular area, common sense would be to avoid it.

These two post sum it all up. If you know the area is risky and you choose to go in there of your own free will while armed, you are just asking to go to Jail. Any decent prosecutor will argue that you went in looking for trouble when you could have simply chosen a different path (pun intended). Is risking your life and your potential freedom (not to mention your livelihood) worth riding in that place at that time?

Find a better place to ride, ride at a different time of day and so on. Make a smart choice and you'll have a good life.

[Urban Achiever]

I second the Hill People chest pack or you could get a Ribz front pack also.

[Cool Custard]

I second the Hill People chest pack or you could get a Ribz front pack also.

I love the one that I have! Goes with anytime I'm hiking, camping, fishing or hunting.

[MrOrange]

This should fit the bill. The tripod head will bolt onto your bike. Just wear a long flowing cape

Forget biking . . . I don't know how to carry when I'm at the pool in my speedos!

From TFB

But seriously folks, unfortunately the world we live in is reflected in baggss post.

If the area is crime-ridden, and you went there, it's your fault.

You know how police are always shooting folks who question their authority and then drive anywhere near them? I've called 911 when people have deliberately tried to run me down and was told "Well you shouldn't have been standing where you might get run over."

Since we know that even if you had a LTC you'd be illegal in that area, your trouble will be double.

[Junkie]

MrOrange, not everyone has the ability to avoid crime ridden areas.

[Urban Achiever]

I have both the Hill People and the Ribz packs. The Ribz looks less "tactical" than the Hill People pack. The Ribz is pretty incognito and looks like a normal piece of hiking equipment. I use mine all of the time. I use the forest green one. You can sew in hook and loop panels into the inside of it and use hook and loop backed whatevers to organize your various tactical chochkies.

[geoint]

I use this with a P3AT. Probably not the quickest, but works for my needs. I don't usually ride alone or at night. I also have a Spyderco knife clipped on my shorts.

These work well. If OP insists on On-Body carry, a Hill People Gear Runners Kit bag like this.

http://www.hillpeoplegear.com/Products/tabid/762/ProductID/2/Default.aspx

Make sure you do something to make it look more like a first aid and/or reflective gear type piece of equipment. By itself, it just screams CCW to me. With a Red Cross sign and some high visibility yellow tape though, it would be way less obvious.

Name of the game when CCW'ing in the open like this is misdirection.

[roostersgt]

I use this with a P3AT. Probably not the quickest, but works for my needs. I don't usually ride alone or at night. I also have a Spyderco knife clipped on my shorts.

Same thing I use. Works great. Might want to consider investing in a 4oz canister of pepper spray. Probably all you'll ever need on a bike. Transients and out of control drunk teenagers are biggest problem on bike trail. Easily overcome with the spice.

[beardog308]

Something like this.

[hambam105]

I absolutely agree we can't avoid high crime areas. No joke. Really, I agree.

Just be ready to spend 5 or 6 years of your, after bills paid, savings and put it toward a good, no excellent, defense attorney for when you get arrested for legally & ethically saving your own life. And I'm no joking about this paragraph either. Not to mention anything about personal injuries.

In Silicon Valley, some people who have the money, pay, and I am not joking, pay a million dollars more for a house just so can get away from crime ridden areas. Some will say it's the schools, L,L,L, yah-got it. For those that are accessing the danger correctly start by physically separating themselves from this street creeps. It has little to do with zip codes and all that. They know that if they live on this side of town then substantially increase the probability for having a entire range of sexual assaults, robbery-not stealing-robbery, dog attacks, and we haven't even mentioned being attacked by creeps with guns or edged weapons yet.

It is a sheet sandwich the OP has to take a nightly bite out of just to bike ride from one place to another. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. Best of luck to you.

[roostersgt]

That's what I did, moved to a very affluent neighborhood with manned gates and roving security to escape the feral insanity of our urban areas. OP should consider carrying pepper spray if he must commute anywhere. The other is not worth the risk.

[roostersgt]

These work well. If OP insists on On-Body carry, a Hill People Gear Runners Kit bag like this.

http://www.hillpeoplegear.com/Products/tabid/762/ProductID/2/Default.aspx

Make sure you do something to make it look more like a first aid and/or reflective gear type piece of equipment. By itself, it just screams CCW to me. With a Red Cross sign and some high visibility yellow tape though, it would be way less obvious.

Name of the game when CCW'ing in the open like this is misdirection.

Most cyclists carry spare inner tubes in them, so it doesn't scream "gun" to anyone on the bike trail, or any other cyclist anywhere.

[Baggs]

Forget biking . . . I don't know how to carry when I'm at the pool in my speedos!

Just stuff it in the front, no one will notice

[BrokerB]

I wear as usual. .. iwb in cargo pants. Im mountain biking but do have to go on cement on and off for a few miles.

Crossbreed microtuk single clip. Jump and bumps... does nto fall out. I do.have to pull my shirt back over pistol grip once in awhile. Mostly LC9/G19 or a jframe.

Pretty simple.

Spandex is for fruit booters. Your are not going any faster in your nut huggers and serves almost zero purpose.