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From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
[MENTION=442798]bulldog1935[/MENTION], I agree with [MENTION=129154]KonAaron Snake[/MENTION]. I don't think the bike industry will follow the same path as the airplane industry. Bike crashes are rarely tragic, and the idea of them is not nearly as terrifying as the idea of a plane crash. Planes are safer now than most other modes of transport because we want them to be. We are (as a whole) OK with dying in car crashes and with breaking collar bones while on bikes, but we don't want plane collisions.
There is no evidence that the bike industry is headed the way of the airplane industry, and there is plenty of evidence that it is not.