Another idiot mountain biker!

"Blackblade" wrote in message ...
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Edward Dolan wrote:

Reports from the media are more than sufficient for this
purpose.

No, they're not because media reports come from all over. You need data for the same place and over the same period to be in any way comparable.

A random sampling of a universe of phenomena is even better than a sampling from a specific time and place. All I am doing is comparing different universes.
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Nobody knows what is meant by "exposures" Your reliance on
this kind of "data" is hilarious.

Yes, Ed, people know exactly what is meant by exposures. If you could care to do some study instead of simply spouting you can read about it here ... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1472638/

However, I fully expect that you won't bother and will remain secure in your ignorance.

All “exposures� are never the same. Too generalized to be of any use.
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Hiker errors resulting in accidents are interesting because
they are unique. Mountain biker errors resulting in accidents are dull because
they are all the same. The biker hits an irregularity in the trail and goes
flying over the handlebars and lands on his head or back. Dull, dull, dull!

Oh dear Ed. So, the fact that the number one category requiring Mountain Rescue was "Slip, Trip or Stumble" with 111 of the 433 injuries in the Lake District in 2013 is indicative of a wonderful range of innovative and 'interesting' new injuries suffered by hikers ?

That number one category is trivial and not worth mentioning, certainly not to be compared with the kind of common accidents that mountain bikers suffer. Hiker accidents that result in serious injury or death are interesting. Similar degree mountain biker accidents are never interesting because they are all the same.

Rider hits irregularity and falls off (OTB is relatively rare), hiker slips, trips or stumbles over irregularity. What a fascinating degree of similarity don't you think ?

Being thrown over the handle bars and having to be picked up by the rescue and emergency services is a quite common mountain biker accident. However, even falling off a bike for any reason at all is far more serious than a hiker falling (unless from a great height).

Mountain bikers are barbarians and have no right to be on any trail used by hikers – unless they want to get off their god damn ****ing bikes and walk like everyone else. When they crash and injure themselves, I rejoice! If and when they manage to kill themselves, I say good riddance to bad rubbish! Death to mountain biking!

“Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.�
~ Christina Rossetti (Psalm 24),
from "A Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets"

Mountain bikes have wheels. Wheels are for roads.

Trails are for walking. What’s the matter? Can’t walk?

Ed Dolan the Great
aka
Saint Edward the Great