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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Cyclist dead
Date: 15 Feb 2025 13:51:31 GMT
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Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2/14/2025 7:59 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:
>> On 2/14/2025 12:57 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> https://realdealnews.org/2025/02/14/extreme-sports-influencer-dies- 
>>> while-cycling-down-volcano/
>> Live for a thrill and you get to die for the thrill. This does not make 
>> sense to me at all.
> 
> Agreed. "Influencers" who do hyper-risky tricks to gain followers and 
> make money do nobody any good. They probably inspire other fools to lose 
> at risky tricks. And as in this case, they trigger public spending to 
> rescue them from their failures.
> 

I’d suggest can be more nuanced, that they say influencer before say MTBer
makes me wonder how prepared he was? Certainly some of the YouTube folks
such as GCN or the MTB guys have had fairly serious injuries or high risks
showing some places/events

Roger Merriman