On a sobering and tragic note, I just read that a grizzly bear kills cyclist on a MTB trail outside of Glacier NP in Montana. NOT something I wanted to read to start the day, but given that I do live in bear country (black bears, not grizzlies), I have educated myself on living in bear country. For those of you who do bike in grizzly or even black bear country, you have a greater chance of being hit by lightning, but please educate yourself to the danger, all the same. The two species of bears are distinctly different in their behavior and surviving an attack requires different tactics. Also, with black bears, a lot of the information about the dangers and the survival tactics needed is badly out of date. (Sows with cubs are NOT the most dangerous when it comes to black bears.)
Be safe, my sisters.