Chances of injury.

Marty said:

I just looked at the Sportscover Injury Calculator and discovered that
I'm much more likely to be injured on a road bike than if I'm mountain
biking!

http://www.sportscover.com/calculator.html

Marty

And if you are a female BMX rider aged 60 or over you have a 13% lesser
chance of injury than a male BMXer of the same age. I wonder how they
collected that data? Perhaps they just made it up.

If this is being used to determine sports insurance premiums then I
understand why they are so exhorbitant.

This site seems to put cycling in a poor light. I play hockey on the
weekends and have seen plenty of injuries sustained during one hour
matches. I've suffered quite a few myself. In the past ten years I can't
recall one cycling injury to myself. I've seen stats from the Federal
Government, from memory cycling has about only one tenth of the injuries
per hour as sports such as soccer.

Peter
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Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA

Marty said:

I just looked at the Sportscover Injury Calculator and discovered that
I'm much more likely to be injured on a road bike than if I'm mountain
biking!

http://www.sportscover.com/calculator.html

Marty

And how about the difference in risk between bocce and bowls? For me I'd
have a 3.4% risk of injury playing bowls but a 39.1% chance playing
bocce. Must be because bowls is played by rational peace loving anglos
and bocce by hot tempered mediterranean types.
--
Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA

Peter McCallum said:

And how about the difference in risk between bocce and bowls? For me I'd
have a 3.4% risk of injury playing bowls but a 39.1% chance playing
bocce. Must be because bowls is played by rational peace loving anglos
and bocce by hot tempered mediterranean types.
--
Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA

well, if bulleen's Veneto club is anything to go by, its all the grog 'on the sly' and the heated debates over who's ball is closer! you could do alot of damage with one of them boche thingies.
I'd carry one on the bike but all that weight! 🙄

wonder if they make CF ones...

If you want to see scary policies try getting an International cycling
license from the ACF & Sportscover , about a decade ago when I was racing in
Europe I seem to remember about $150extra on top of a domestic license now
you will pay nearly 10x as much or maybe if you are lucky to be riding a
couple of day affair you may only pay $300 extra. In the days of paper
licenses lots of riders used to resort to the passport photo with a coin &
ink stamp but they've got wise to that now & have different colour licenses.
The problem I can see is that we have a very small pool of registered riders
& a large percentage riding overseas. Of the riders overseas we have had
several high profile accidents overseas especially in the USA so my limited
understanding of insurance leads me to believe this is why we are paying so
much. Europeans pay a fraction of what we do but then I suppose they are
predominantly riding within Europe & have reciprocal health insurance. The
only fair solution I see is that the UCI based in Switzerland organise the
insurance centrally with a Swiss broker & all riders of the world pay the
same premiums if they want to race overseas. What I don't understand is with
the popularity of Gran Fondo style events in Europe ,which technically
speaking aren't races but are timed & do supply race numbers what type of
insurance cover do riders need or is insurance supplied by the event for
international riders? Because I can see a travel insurance company here in
Oz wriggling out of any cover for an accident in one of these events.
Steve

http://ideal1984.blogspot.com/

Just dont start hurling..

Marty said:

I just looked at the Sportscover Injury Calculator and discovered that
I'm much more likely to be injured on a road bike than if I'm mountain
biking!

http://www.sportscover.com/calculator.html

Marty

Peter McCallum said:

Marty said:

I just looked at the Sportscover Injury Calculator and discovered that
I'm much more likely to be injured on a road bike than if I'm mountain
biking!

http://www.sportscover.com/calculator.html

Marty

And how about the difference in risk between bocce and bowls? For me I'd
have a 3.4% risk of injury playing bowls but a 39.1% chance playing
bocce. Must be because bowls is played by rational peace loving anglos
and bocce by hot tempered mediterranean types.

How about gaelic football, once you're over thirty you have a 99% chance
of getting injured.

Marty

quote='Marty'Peter McCallum said:

Marty said:

I just looked at the Sportscover Injury Calculator and discovered that
I'm much more likely to be injured on a road bike than if I'm mountain
biking!

http://www.sportscover.com/calculator.html

Marty

And how about the difference in risk between bocce and bowls? For me I'd
have a 3.4% risk of injury playing bowls but a 39.1% chance playing
bocce. Must be because bowls is played by rational peace loving anglos
and bocce by hot tempered mediterranean types.

How about gaelic football, once you're over thirty you have a 99% chance
of getting injured.

Marty[/QUOTE]
Go and watch a game of hurling, you will not find one player that plays without helmet and face protection that has not broken his nose a few times. Fekk, that game is vicious. Gaelic football should have slightly less injuries than Footy here in Oz I would think.

Marty said:

Quoted message said:

And how about the difference in risk between bocce and bowls? For me I'd
have a 3.4% risk of injury playing bowls but a 39.1% chance playing
bocce. Must be because bowls is played by rational peace loving anglos
and bocce by hot tempered mediterranean types.

yeah...look at the difference for your category across fitness levels, if you are unfit or elite the chances of injury approach 90-99%🙁 ,but if say good fitness as opposed to very fit, I get the best stats (60-70%)🙂 ....good case for being part couch potato and sometime weekend warrior, as opposed busting a gut and racing off the bunch in sprint finishes🙄 ........Soooooooo!, I think I'll do a research project into the dangers of the elite sport of blancmongue scoffing with 9%alc/vol Trappist Beer and Mussel/Frites chasers...Monash just may have an opening!!..watch this space!!!😄

flyingdutch said:

well, if bulleen's Veneto club is anything to go by, its all the grog
'on the sly' and the heated debates over who's ball is closer! you
could do alot of damage with one of them boche thingies.
I'd carry one on the bike but all that weight! 🙄

wonder if they make CF ones...

That's right, I'd forgotten that lawn bowls was for teatotallers ;-)

--
Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA

Claes said:

Marty said:

How about gaelic football, once you're over thirty you have a 99%
chance
of getting injured.

Marty

Go and watch a game of hurling, you will not find one player that plays
without helmet and face protection that has not broken his nose a few
times. Fekk, that game is vicious. Gaelic football should have slightly
less injuries than Footy here in Oz I would think.

I haven't seen any hurling on tv for a while. I love it, it's such a
suicidal looking sport. It's funny, I ride my bike down to the hockey
grounds wearing a helmet, but can't wear one on the field. Last weekend
I managed to fend about 4 shots away from various parts of my anatomy
(including some rather sensitive ones) and was hit once by a full
blooded shot. Riding on the highway seems tame by comparison.
--
Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA

Marty said:

I just looked at the Sportscover Injury Calculator and discovered that
I'm much more likely to be injured on a road bike than if I'm mountain
biking!

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Marty

One word - cars

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Quoted message said:

flyingdutch said:

well, if bulleen's Veneto club is anything to go by, its all the grog
'on the sly' and the heated debates over who's ball is closer! you
could do alot of damage with one of them boche thingies.
I'd carry one on the bike but all that weight! 🙄

wonder if they make CF ones...

That's right, I'd forgotten that lawn bowls was for teatotallers ;-)

--
Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA

Someone forgot to tell my father's lawn bowls club about that rule. Their
clubhouse is licensed and some medium serious drinking goes on in there.