"Slack" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:op.sn0w11x5qwdip2@slacker...
(Pete Cresswell) said:
Per Scott:
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shattered forearm and wrist.
Has anybody come across comparative injury rates on a participant-per-hour basis for various amateur sports?
My gut says that if you remove the fatalities, and separate 'mountain biking' from 'riding a bike that was marketed with "MTB" in it's description'; actual mountain biking outranks everything - even kitesurfing.
"I'm sure it's up there, but I would venture to say that MX would be much higher."
I didn't race much MX but I raced off-road every weekend. I've have had many more smaller injuries on mtn bikes than on motorcycles. A fall off of a motorcycle at 90mph in the desert is a lot scarier than a mtn bike crash so you tend to try to fall less off of a motorcycle. Current MX with much bigger jumps could be higher but still, if you crash hard enough to hurt yourself it's usually hard enough to keep you off the motorcycle for awhile.
But what I did find leads me to suspect that studies won't be all that enlightening.
I'd think that a major problem would be separating mountain bikers
from other
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bikers.
That's true because some goofballs think that throwing themselves off of a cliff on a bicycle is mountain biking. What our pal scott is doing indoors is bmx, not mountain biking. I could ride Nelson's old Free Spirit 10speed on a dirt fireroad in the San Gabriels and that would be mountain biking, though if I rode it on the paved San Gabriel River Trail, it would not be mountain biking. When you get right down to it, it's not hard for sensible people to differentiate.
FWIW, the SAR people in Mesa County, CO were kept much busier saving fools that jacked themselves up on atvs and horses than by mountain bikers and not by just a little. Sunday was referred to as "SAR Sunday" Spring through Fall and maybe once or twice a year it involved a person on a mountain bike.
But what I did find leads me to suspect that studies won't be all that enlightening.
I'd think that a major problem would be separating mountain bikers
from other
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bikers.
FWIW, the SAR people in Mesa County, CO were kept much busier saving fools that jacked themselves up on atvs and horses than by mountain bikers and not by just a little. Sunday was referred to as "SAR Sunday" Spring through Fall and maybe once or twice a year it involved a person on a mountain bike.
JD
Are the SAR dudes in your 'hood paid professionals? Our SAR folk are volunteer and not even police or fire. They rely on private donations to exist. It's kind of sad, but I guess it's not too easy to get lost around here.
