Mountain Bike Vs. Road Bike Safety
11-25-12, 05:55 PM
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I greaty advise a clearity in the word safe. I believe in my experiance that someone who is one the road is safer if safeer means less chance of an accident. however, if you crash, on the road, it is much more likely you will die compared to MTB. You see, when mountain biking you should not assume the crashes will comenly result in death. most have to do with a fall, not a crash. your body is desinged to sustain falling impacts naturally. you can fall at speeds of up-to 25 m.p.h. and survive. hitting opsticles or falling off/with your bike often can result in broken bones, but hitting a car is much different while it is less common. When you are hit or hit another vehicle on the road it can cause interier bleading because an automobile can impact between your ribcage and hips, where as falling off-road lets your bones take the impact. The nature of awareness and the accident is often different too. When you are hit buy a car, you rarely know for shure it is about to cream you, thus your natureal reactions to put your hands up and unclip your pedals rarely help you in time, off road you commenly know you just messed up, and are ready for the impact even a full second or more before it occurs. Bottem line-if you call safety chance of crash, road os safer, but if we are talkin' chance of death, cross cuontry mountain biking is less deadly than road cycling.
11-25-12, 07:16 PM
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Grammar nazi! Like you've never bleaded on the interier before! Pffffttt!!!
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03-29-13, 12:07 PM
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it really depends on how you ride. there are plenty of MTB riders who ride in excess of 20 mph (some even claim around 35mph downhill). for me MTB doesnt make it any less dangerous compare to road cycling. in fact, I get more bruises and close calls when I do MTB than being on the road. at least with the road you can see where you are going way ahead. unlike mtb single tracks where you cant really see whats ahead specially if theres so many bends and drops (not to mention roots and loose dirt). there are only 2 major things to look out in road cycling and thats pots holes and cars. other than that its fairly straight forward.
A friend of mine broke his back whilst riding in the Welsh mountains. I almost broke my back too whilst on an MTB ride to Dorking. good thing I was wearing a spine guard which broke when i fell. hence the reason why I moved to road cycling (but I still do MTB once in a while). Ive also heard plenty of broken bones whilst riding MTB's but not so much with road cycling unless being hit by a car.
to sum it up. both MTB and Road cycling are equally dangerous whether on or off the road. it just depends on your riding style and skills. but accidents can happen anytime regardless
A friend of mine broke his back whilst riding in the Welsh mountains. I almost broke my back too whilst on an MTB ride to Dorking. good thing I was wearing a spine guard which broke when i fell. hence the reason why I moved to road cycling (but I still do MTB once in a while). Ive also heard plenty of broken bones whilst riding MTB's but not so much with road cycling unless being hit by a car.
to sum it up. both MTB and Road cycling are equally dangerous whether on or off the road. it just depends on your riding style and skills. but accidents can happen anytime regardless
03-29-13, 12:38 PM
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Road cycling with cars is MUCH more dangerous than mountain biking. Of course there are still dangers.......
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...ain-lion_x.htm
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — Initial tests conducted on a male mountain lion suspected of killing one biker and injuring another revealed human skin tissues found in its stomach, authorities said.
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Footprints taken in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County had the same measurements and officials are fairly certain the cougar is responsible for both of Thursday's attacks. The 2-year-old mountain lion weighed about 110 pounds and was shot and killed Thursday night after it returned to the site where the body of a biker was found.
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...ain-lion_x.htm
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — Initial tests conducted on a male mountain lion suspected of killing one biker and injuring another revealed human skin tissues found in its stomach, authorities said.
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Footprints taken in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County had the same measurements and officials are fairly certain the cougar is responsible for both of Thursday's attacks. The 2-year-old mountain lion weighed about 110 pounds and was shot and killed Thursday night after it returned to the site where the body of a biker was found.
03-29-13, 03:59 PM
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My bf started riding a bike when he lived in San Diego, bike commuted 17 miles to his job in Coronado.
He likes to tell the story of the only time he got hit by a car. He was mountain biking on a Forest Service road on Mt Palomar and hit/got hit head on by a USFS vehicle. No serious injuries, but he did go to the ER.
On a road ride he did get hit by a raccoon on a night ride a few years ago. Got a concussion from that one.
He likes to tell the story of the only time he got hit by a car. He was mountain biking on a Forest Service road on Mt Palomar and hit/got hit head on by a USFS vehicle. No serious injuries, but he did go to the ER.
On a road ride he did get hit by a raccoon on a night ride a few years ago. Got a concussion from that one.
BUT not one of those involved a car. All road conditions. Going down during a fast decent can be fatal. And a not all that fast decent in the middle of nowhere can do the same.
The one on a MTN bike was my very first real off road ride on my MTN bike. Got my laces tangles in the gears, not big deal, just backpedaled to clear them. BUT I was not looking where I was going when I was looking down at the gears. I held my line just fine, but when I looked back up the dirt road I found a was fast approaching a really nice fat rattlesnake. (Fortunately I know which end is which of a snake).
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Road cycling with cars is MUCH more dangerous than mountain biking. Of course there are still dangers.......
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...ain-lion_x.htm
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — Initial tests conducted on a male mountain lion suspected of killing one biker and injuring another revealed human skin tissues found in its stomach, authorities said.
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Footprints taken in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County had the same measurements and officials are fairly certain the cougar is responsible for both of Thursday's attacks. The 2-year-old mountain lion weighed about 110 pounds and was shot and killed Thursday night after it returned to the site where the body of a biker was found.
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...ain-lion_x.htm
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — Initial tests conducted on a male mountain lion suspected of killing one biker and injuring another revealed human skin tissues found in its stomach, authorities said.
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Footprints taken in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County had the same measurements and officials are fairly certain the cougar is responsible for both of Thursday's attacks. The 2-year-old mountain lion weighed about 110 pounds and was shot and killed Thursday night after it returned to the site where the body of a biker was found.
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Road cycling with cars is MUCH more dangerous than mountain biking. Of course there are still dangers.......
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...ain-lion_x.htm
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — Initial tests conducted on a male mountain lion suspected of killing one biker and injuring another revealed human skin tissues found in its stomach, authorities said.
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Footprints taken in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County had the same measurements and officials are fairly certain the cougar is responsible for both of Thursday's attacks. The 2-year-old mountain lion weighed about 110 pounds and was shot and killed Thursday night after it returned to the site where the body of a biker was found.
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...ain-lion_x.htm
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — Initial tests conducted on a male mountain lion suspected of killing one biker and injuring another revealed human skin tissues found in its stomach, authorities said.
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Footprints taken in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County had the same measurements and officials are fairly certain the cougar is responsible for both of Thursday's attacks. The 2-year-old mountain lion weighed about 110 pounds and was shot and killed Thursday night after it returned to the site where the body of a biker was found.
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yup this place do exist:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Dor...ngdom&t=m&z=13
There are plenty of places here in United Kingdom where they have funny names. I even saw "Fartway lane", "Jackass road" and "Gaylord road"
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Dor...ngdom&t=m&z=13
There are plenty of places here in United Kingdom where they have funny names. I even saw "Fartway lane", "Jackass road" and "Gaylord road"
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