Apparently getting on a bike causes something to happen to a person's brain to ruin their good judgement.

I have a client who is a very very intelligent person, with an engineering degree, and very excellent real estate holdings who used to live on a US highway. This road is a four lane but not limited access and the speed limit is 60 but plenty of folks run 70. It is not heavily traveled.

This fellow knew that bicycles have the right to ride on any road except interstate so on a regular basis he and his wife would for exercise take a ride on the hiway they lived on, riding in the slow lane and taking it all.

Inevitably they got hit by a car. My client had his bike jammed into him by the impact to the extent his pelvis was broken. I can only imagine the damage to his plumbing. He did survive it though. I believe he has one of those colostomy bags because of damage to his intestines which never healed properly.

As I said climbing on a bike apparently in some folks causes their sense of self preservation to suspend or go dormant.

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