Originally Posted by
LesterOfPuppets
I prefer to look at cycling as a spectrum.
It's rather blunt to assume that all cycling styles with have the same crash per minute or mile ratio when conducting cost/benefits analyses.
Yes, but by and large, when you are conducting a cross-society cost/benefit analysis, you are dealing with statistics, which throw out "you" and "me" in favor of "mean" and "standard deviation". Are you and I representative of the average cycling population? I race bikes, bump shoulders, bunny hop obstacles, touch wheels, etc. I don't think I am an average rider. You've claimed 100k miles of transportational riding without serious incident. Is this average? I don't know, but I don't think you know either.
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