Self-Protection Products in the UK while Cycling

My Electron Nano 9 LED Front Light made a good improvised yawara stick**, **some louts were trying to get my bike off the railings it was chained to, when I protested one of them hit me and I hit him back hard on the side of his head with the torch hidden in my fist and he ran off, don't lock my bike within view of pubs or takeaways any more.

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I was beaten over the head with a police issue mag-lite once by an over zelouse bouncer while trying to sneak a marching band into a party.
When he realized what he'd done he was fairly repentant, my costume didn't make me look overly female (I personally don't think gender should be a factor on whether or not you hit someone in the head with a huge fuck off torch, but if it made him feel worse for doing it, then good).

I digress, but the moral of the story, imo, is not to have something in your hands that you are prepared to use as a weapon without taking the time to think about what is your threshold for actually using it as such.