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Wow. I do a little bit of cycling on the road, but generally avoid it because I don't trust motorists. I do a lot more mountain biking, including some lift ac
by gibspaulding 7y ago
Wow.
I do a little bit of cycling on the road, but generally avoid it because I don't trust motorists. I do a lot more mountain biking, including some lift accessed downhill riding.
I've never thought of mountain biking, even downhill, as excessively dangerous, but according to his chart, those lift days this summer were something like 36 times as dangerous as road riding.
I think I'm just a lot more comfortable with the risk of dying because I screwed up, rather than because someone else did.
- antisthenes 7y agoAgain, it's not a perfect measure. Where I live, there are options to either cycle on a park path or on the road with car drivers. The death risks are completely different for those modes. When on the road, your primary cause of death will be an accident with a motorist. When on the bike path, it'll likely be heart failure.