Zen is apparently the only one posting here who still races. He should
take comfort in the fact that they found racing to be safer than badminton!
cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Fri May 30 20:43:02 2025 Frank Krygowski wrote:
Zen is apparently the only one posting here who still races. He should
take comfort in the fact that they found racing to be safer than badminton!
And you don't find those numbers peculiar? What injuries are sustained in badmitten as opposed to riding down mountain passes in the rain at 50 mph?
Very few racers will be regularly riding down mountain passes, and to be honest while the speed clearly makes any crash potentially serious, in my experience they aren?t particularly dangerous, relatively good sight lines, so on.
If you read the paper, you'll see they surveyed about 3500 people
repeatedly over a year. That should result in data that represents the
actual practices of participants during the time they participate in
each activity. So as with Tom's "descending mountains in the rain at 58
mph" I suspect the time doing jumps in full face helmets and body armor
is a small sliver of the total time spent riding bikes. Also note they
had a separate category for what I call "ordinary" cycling - they called
it cycling as a "commuting activity" or more accurately, cycling as transportation, to just get somewhere.
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