Re: how to convince someone cycling isn't dangerous


"wafflycat" <w*a*ff£y£cat*@£btco*nn£ect.com> wrote in message
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I am a mother. The job description of being a mother includes the duty to
worry about offspring for their entire lives,

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Yesbut

You, sweet Waffles, are a cyclist so appreciate the dangers of cycling and
the pleasures and advantages. As such you can take an informed choice about
the safety or otherwise of letting Nathan loose on the roads of Nar***.

Sadly, most parents are not cyclists so do not have that intimate personal
experience of the activity in which their offspring wishes to engage. As
such they tend to default to 'its dangerous -- don't do it'.

My own Mother cycled, climbed mountains (well, the weenie British ones) and
various other 'dangerous' activities as a girl. She had little or no
problems with me doing any of these things -- or other activities she would
have liked to have had the opportunity to try such as skiing and canoeing
(though she was never completely comfortable about my cycling in London).
She went totally ape-***, however, when I came back raving about the
delights of potholing. Logical -- no, understandable -- maybe.

In contrast, of course, she was eternally grateful that I did not have to
partake in the most dangerous activity she experienced as a teenager --
sitting in an air-raid shelter being blitzed. On balance, so am I. It
never sounded like a barrel of laughs.

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