Originally Posted by Seattle Forrest

The only time anything like that has happened to me, has been in my kayak. If you have a mind for safety and practice capsizing your boat in the summer, to make sure you're able to do a self-rescue, you'll be surrounded by motor boats offering to help you back in, and even to tow you from the docks. You have to be able to get back in your own boat pretty quickly to shut them up. But I don't get the same treatment on the bike.