Originally Posted by DnvrFox
...I do no technical mtn bike, and I choose roads for my roadies where I feel relatively safe, and use a great deal of common sense and defensive riding on MUP's... All the stats show that 1. More accidents occur on MUP's...
Pardon an arrant newbie's ignorance, but what's an MUP? Multi-use somethingorother?
(BTW, I love this over-50 hangout.
gratias ago vobis.)
As far as my own experience, I started looking at bicycles after my last motorcycle accident. I know that bicycles can be dangerous as well, but the danger is mitigated when compared to motorcycles (that's what the numbers say, anyway), and part of my risk on a motorcycle was due to a personal physical problem; I have this right wrist that keeps dropping. By the time I have any similar problem on a bicycle, I suspect I'll have dropped thirty pounds and be in much better physical shape than currently! (Yeah, I'm, like, JUST getting back to bicycles after more than a quarter-century layoff. Some of the clerks at the LBS's I go to weren't even born yet when I stopped riding!)