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Originally Posted by DanDare
3 seconds of adrenaline compared to a lifetime of being wheel chair bound.
Yep that sounds like a risk worth taking? 
Jumping into water of unknown depth is asking for trouble. You may aswell jump from a block of flats and see if your legs don't break.
This is by no means anything to do with biking, unless of course you ride sans helmet and use a brick wall to stop. |
Thats the point though exactly there, you may as well sit in the same room as the people trying to get bike banned....'because they are dangerous'
I have jumped off plenty of high things in to water probably in the same scenarios as luckypants. Its an assessed risk like jumping onto your bike and going for a hoon.
Some people are fools and jump into inches deep water and injure themselves, or jump off a pier and find a sandbank has moved witht he currents.
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Some people are fools and ride stupidly fast, target fixate and often come off much worse than not being able to walk again, or as has been said hoon round a corner to find a tractor cutting a hedge slowly.
People choose the route in which they get there adrenalin fix.....why should anyone else stand in their way and ban it because 'its dangerous'
To me, someone saying its dangerous and should be banned is exactly like someone ill informed saying biking is dangerous and sahould be banned too.