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Fine things report's, but;
Male ✓
Getting grey ✓
Inflated sense of cycling prowess ✓
Unwilling to accept aging process ✓
Looks like I best steer clear of e-bike's 😬
*stw usual disclaimer, my post is somewhat tongue in cheek, but I thought the report was mildly interesting.
Peter van der Knaap, director of the Dutch Road Safety Research Foundation, said older men were too confident in their ability not only to cycle at the speeds e-bikes make possible but also to mount or dismount the bike in the first place.
Are bike shops selling them to old people who are so far gone they can't even get on and off the things?
My Dad, 78, fell off his the other week, trying to get on it. A couple of men helped him up.
Found this quote in the article mind boggling:
Of course, every dead person is one too many
To me it feels like there is a stat missing from this report that is pretty key to the headline.
It says that "A quarter of the cyclists [who died] were on e-bikes" but it doesn't say what proportion of cyclists as a whole ride e-bikes, yes, it's not going to be 25% of all cyclist ride e-bikes but without providing that statistic it's not good form to claim that e-bikes are making up a disproportionate percentage of the deaths.