Marc R

1) Re: the safety stats for various activities. I too was pleasantly survived (oops Freudian slip) I mean SUPRISED to see that cycling seemed to be safer per hour than driving and many other activities. Then I realized that this data concerns fatalities, not general injuries. To make the obvious guess, perhaps one is more likely
to get killed in a car, but more likely to be injured on a bike.

2) One well-known cyclist in the Portland area mentioned to me a few years ago that he had broken a dozen or so bones during his cycling career. Perhaps this makes him a statistical outlier, but the person who got the shoulder injury needs to keep working on it if he wants to catch up.

3) For whatever it's worth, I went down by or on a TriMet track a few years ago and broke a hip, but was blessed with a rapid surgery and recovery, and feel lucky because I'd take that any day over the injuries I might have suffered doing stupid things and escaping unscathed.

4) Most importantly, did I miss any news about the Tuesday night PIR rider who went down at the end of the 3/4 race with an apparent head injury? If anyone even knows his name and what hospital he want to, maybe I could make inquiries and let people know. Rumor has it that he had a pedal problem, or became unclipped, and the results were really bad. So watch those cleats.

Marc Rose