Used a knife on rides? apart from preparing my picnic I never have nor can I think what you would use one for
Well, seeing as where you ride there’s bugger-all by way of anything like hedges or anything like that, it’s understandable, but as I’ve already said in this thread I look after a section of Sustrans route running along an old railway line, with high hedges and trees all the way along, brambles and rose briars grow up through the hedges and trees, along the branches, then dangle down right in the path riders and walkers use.
Now, I would guess you’ve never had six feet of six millimetre thick thorny bramble drag itself right across your face, seeing as how you’re mister invincible, but it’s deeply unpleasant and very painful, not to mention carrying the risk of damage to the eyes. That’s why I carry a knife, to cut the damn stuff back. There have been occasions I’ve gone out for a short evening ride in early summer, and spent two hours cutting back thorn branches on a section about a mile and a half long.
Then done the same the following week.
I could use secateurs, but they’re heavy and bulky, and a hawksbill blade just slices straight through.
So just because the only use you have for a knife is spreading butter on your toasted teacake, others of us do have a regular, genuine use that you seem to fail to recognise.