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From: zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Danger! Danger!" - or not!
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On 5/31/2025 4:08 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:
> cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Fri May 30 20:43:02 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:
>>>
>>> Zen is apparently the only one posting here who still races. He should
>>> take comfort in the fact that they found racing to be safer than badminton!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> And you don't find those numbers peculiar? What injuries are sustained in
>> badmitten as opposed to riding down mountain passes in the rain at 50 mph?
>>
> 
> Very few racers will be regularly riding down mountain passes, and to be
> honest while the speed clearly makes any crash potentially serious, in my
> experience they aren’t particularly dangerous, relatively good sight lines,
> so on.
> 
> Roger Merriman
> 

Racers generally have more training and are more fit than your average 
backyard badminton player. It's not surprising that racing has better 
statistics in that comparison.  A valid comparison would be bike racers 
compared to competitive badminton players.