My goodness!

Since record-keeping began in 1910, 15 people have been killed
in the

bull running of Pamplona,

Or in other words, through 2009, or 99 years, 15 people have
died, An

average of 0.15 individuals per year...... Which makes Lake District

hiking twenty times more dangerous than running in front of a herd of

fighting bills.

This carnage must stop!

The difference is that most mountain bikers think it is
perfectly safe to go biking on a hiking trail.

And they're quite right to do so ... the evidence backs this up. There is a slight chance that they could seriously injure or kill themselves ... but it is very slight indeed.

They find out the hard way that
nothing could be further from the truth. If you bike on trails designed and
meant only for hikers, it is just* a matter of time until you suffer a
serious accident. A few hundred people at most run in Pamplona whereas millions
of folks hike throughout the year on trails all over the world. I do not seen
any connection there at all!

Ah, thank you, at last. You concede that if millions of people do something that, inevitably, some of them will get hurt doing it even if it's low risk.

And, as we calculated earlier in this thread, the 'matter of time' you're talking about is around 15 years even if you ride extensively every week.

Another difference is that biking in London is most likely not
done for pleasure. It is part of daily living. Whereas mountain biking is done
solely for pleasure. Is it worthwhile to take risks for something as trivial as
mere pleasure? Only fools like Blackblade think so.

So your job requires you to go hiking does it Ed ? You're risking going hiking simply for pleasure ? You mad fool !