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After promising that most K-8 students would be in schools in the first 100 days,  apparently Joe is afraid to lead on this and has drastically scaled back that goal.

Instead, we're shooting for about half to go to school at least one day a week,  by the end of April.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-02-09/bidens-goal-for-school-reopenings-suddenly-became-more-attainable

 

Toe clips? That seems like a made up excuse.  No reason he should be clipped into his bike.

Glad he is active, and OK.

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Ouch, I had toe clips and took. Spill hard enough that I needed stitches in my elbow. I have clipless pedals now, but I’ve still taken a tumble when I’ve had to make an abrupt stop. 

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10 hours ago, nursej22 said:

Ouch, I had toe clips and took. Spill hard enough that I needed stitches in my elbow. I have clipless pedals now, but I’ve still taken a tumble when I’ve had to make an abrupt stop. 

My wife did the same but needed no stitches.  It shook her up, pretty good and she was glad that she was wearing a helmet. 

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3 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

My wife did the same but needed no stitches.  It shook her up, pretty good and she was glad that she was wearing a helmet. 

Anyone who rides bikes frequently will take a fall.  The important thing is that he can get up and ride away or at least push the bike until the shock is over.  The big danger here is going at a good clip and you run into the pile of sand deposited by the wind.  Those uber narrow tires can't handle sand:(

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34 minutes ago, subee said:

Anyone who rides bikes frequently will take a fall.  The important thing is that he can get up and ride away or at least push the bike until the shock is over.  The big danger here is going at a good clip and you run into the pile of sand deposited by the wind.  Those uber narrow tires can't handle sand:(

Really?  I ride bikes, mostly mountain biking.   I don't know anyone who "frequently will take a fall".

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32 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Really?  I ride bikes, mostly mountain biking.   I don't know anyone who "frequently will take a fall".

I ride with a road bike twice a week. I take a tumble about every 6 months. My son is an avid rider-road, mountain, cyclecross. He has broken ribs (flail chest and pneumo) and recently his clavicle. He’s also been clipped by cars.
 

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1 hour ago, Beerman said:

Really?  I ride bikes, mostly mountain biking.   I don't know anyone who "frequently will take a fall".

That's awesome! Anecdote is interesting but not the same as data. The CDC has data.

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1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

That's awesome! Anecdote is interesting but not the same as data. The CDC has data.

Now THAT's awesome....data!  Riding a mountain bike is probably different from riding a bike every single day in town.  There's just more exposure to other people.  People can be dangerous:)  Just to be on topic, Biden didn't get hurt which speaks for his physical status.  He can still take a joke.

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1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

That's awesome! Anecdote is interesting but not the same as data. The CDC has data.

From your source:

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Nearly 1,000 bicyclists die and over 130,000 are injured in crashes that occur on roads in the United States every year.

Call this 133,000 total injuries/deaths.  Based on an estimated U.S. population of 332,403,650 this is 1 injury/death per 2499 persons or 0.04% of the total population.  I'm not sure that this is an accurate representation:

3 hours ago, subee said:

Anyone who rides bikes frequently will take a fall. ...

 

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2 minutes ago, chare said:

From your source:

Call this 133,000 total injuries/deaths.  Based on an estimated U.S. population of 332,403,650 this is 1 injury/death per 2499 persons or 0.04% of the total population.  I'm not sure that this is an accurate representation:

 

I don't know how they gather those statistics but my humble guess is that is comes from hospitals and law enforcement.  For every person that had to show up in the ER or die to become a statistic, how many just hobbled home and never got to be in a data base?  Now that I'm typing this, I'm wondering if urgent care centers have the same requirement burdens as hospitals?  Just curious.

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19 hours ago, MaybeeRN said:

He was just pointing out how he tries to run the country.  

This is humorous but it was awful to watch the poor guy fall. I'm glad he is okay. 

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31 minutes ago, chare said:

From your source:

Call this 133,000 total injuries/deaths.  Based on an estimated U.S. population of 332,403,650 this is 1 injury/death per 2499 persons or 0.04% of the total population.  I'm not sure that this is an accurate representation:

 

Anyone who rides frequently is likely to take a fall.  I guess we can quibble over how the word frequently was associated in the original comment.

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