Arrgh - Cycling is quite a dangerous sport

MSeries

according to Nicole Cook. In our bathroom I picked up a copy of Personal
Trainer for Women with an interview with Ms Cook. Under the question
"Have you had any injuries ?" Cook says "Yes, mostly related to
crashing, cycling is quite a dangerous sport" I haven't read anymore
yet. Bearing in mind the target audience of this magazine is women, some
of whom will be mothers what sort of message is this to be sending out ?
She continues to say since she fell off a bike when she was 7 and hit a
kerb she has always used a helmet.

MSeries

MSeries wrote:
> according to Nicole Cook. In our bathroom I picked up a copy of Personal
> Trainer for Women with an interview with Ms Cook. Under the question
> "Have you had any injuries ?" Cook says "Yes, mostly related to
> crashing, cycling is quite a dangerous sport" I haven't read anymore
> yet. Bearing in mind the target audience of this magazine is women, some
> of whom will be mothers what sort of message is this to be sending out ?
> She continues to say since she fell off a bike when she was 7 and hit a
> kerb she has always used a helmet.
PS I had a crash yesterday :-(

Richard Bates

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:53:15 +0000, MSeries <skankmartin@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>according to Nicole Cook. In our bathroom I picked up a copy of Personal
>Trainer for Women with an interview with Ms Cook. Under the question
>"Have you had any injuries ?" Cook says "Yes, mostly related to
>crashing, cycling is quite a dangerous sport" I haven't read anymore
>yet. Bearing in mind the target audience of this magazine is women, some
>of whom will be mothers what sort of message is this to be sending out ?
>She continues to say since she fell off a bike when she was 7 and hit a
>kerb she has always used a helmet.

Sorry, Nicole, I don't fancy you any more!
--
Amazon: "If you are interested in 'Asimov's I-Robot',
you may also be interested in 'Garfield - The Movie'.
... erm, how do they figure that one out?

JohnB

MSeries wrote:
>
> MSeries wrote:
> > according to Nicole Cook. In our bathroom I picked up a copy of Personal
> > Trainer for Women with an interview with Ms Cook. Under the question
> > "Have you had any injuries ?" Cook says "Yes, mostly related to
> > crashing, cycling is quite a dangerous sport"

> PS I had a crash yesterday :-(

So assuming you didn't crash today that's an average of a crash every
two days.
I'd call that dangerous.

Take great care tomorrow.

John B

MSeries

JohnB wrote:
> MSeries wrote:
>
>>MSeries wrote:
>>
>>>according to Nicole Cook. In our bathroom I picked up a copy of Personal
>>>Trainer for Women with an interview with Ms Cook. Under the question
>>>"Have you had any injuries ?" Cook says "Yes, mostly related to
>>>crashing, cycling is quite a dangerous sport"
>
>
>> PS I had a crash yesterday :-(
>
>
> So assuming you didn't crash today that's an average of a crash every
> two days.
> I'd call that dangerous.
>
> Take great care tomorrow.
>
> John B

I didn't crash on Friday though, not Thurday, nor Wednesday, nor
Tuesday, nor Monday

I didn't crash today either but I did use a (:-). Not because I crashed,
because they are mandatory whilst riding at the National Cycling Centre.

A (:-) wouldn't have protected my wrist, shoulder and hip yesterday. I
have had worse 'injuires' playing football !

JohnB

MSeries wrote:

> I didn't crash today either but I did use a (:-).

Oh dear.
Beware saying such things, or BeHit will be proclaiming it saved you
from a fate worse than death.

John B

Danny Colyer

Richard Bates wrote:
> Sorry, Nicole, I don't fancy you any more!

I always preferred Victoria Pendleton anyway :-)~

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

David Martin

On 16/1/05 10:40 pm, in article cseqig$gon$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk, "Danny
Colyer" <danny@speedy5.freeserve.giggle> wrote:

> Richard Bates wrote:
>> Sorry, Nicole, I don't fancy you any more!
>
> I always preferred Victoria Pendleton anyway :-)~

She's exactly the same height as me.. and has by far the nicest photo on the
Athens 2004 web site.

...d

Mark Thompson

> "Have you had any injuries ?" Cook says "Yes, mostly related to
> crashing, cycling is quite a dangerous sport"

I've got friends that think Ultimate Frisbee [1] is a very dangerous sport.
As it's non-contact that's a pretty weird thing to think.

Thinking about it, the _sport_ of cycling does have very real risks - the
riders are often going very (very) fast with minimal protection and
generally ride very close together. Falls do seem to be quite common. The
risks are of course increased when the rider <cough..nicole..cough>
forgets how to go round corners..



[1] What do you mean you haven't heard of it?
<URL:http://www.whatisultimate.com>

Martin Bulmer

In news:34vv4eF4fv29cU1@individual.net,
MSeries <skankmartin@hotmail.com> wrote:
>since she fell off a bike when
> she was 7 and hit a kerb she has always used a helmet.

When I hit a kerb I was wearing a helmet.
Made no difference, I went over the bars & plowed a furrow in the verge with
my chin.
How we all laughed.
--


Martin Bulmer

Graeme

Mark Thompson <pleasegivegenerously@warmmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns95E0EFA21EF4Apleasegivegenerously@130.133.1.4:

> I've got friends that think Ultimate Frisbee [1] is a very dangerous
> sport. As it's non-contact that's a pretty weird thing to think.

It is, at least if you've got an inept fool like me playing it. Flailing
arms and wildly inaccurate throws. You could have somebody's eye out with
that!

Arthur Clune

MSeries <skankmartin@hotmail.com> wrote:
: "Have you had any injuries ?" Cook says "Yes, mostly related to
: crashing, cycling is quite a dangerous sport" I haven't read anymore
: yet.

Cycling is a dangerous sport. Or at least road racing, cross, mtb racing
etc all involve crashing.

Cycling is not a dangerous form of transport, but that's a different
thing.

Arthur

--
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It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness

Zog The Undeniable

MSeries wrote:
> according to Nicole Cook. In our bathroom I picked up a copy of Personal
> Trainer for Women with an interview with Ms Cook. Under the question
> "Have you had any injuries ?" Cook says "Yes, mostly related to
> crashing, cycling is quite a dangerous sport"

Having seen her ride in the Olympics I can believe it. She needs to get
out on an MTB and learn some bike handling.