Learning about risk, from playing

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demographic wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 7:21 pm
Dunno about cars but from what I heard some squaddies used to bribe the bike tester in Cyprus so they passed their bike test over there.
Then not really able to ride properly when then bought a Fireblade/whatever.

Going back some time (when we still had an Army ... ), a friend was training as a physio. She did a stint at an Army rehab place somewhere south of London.

60 injured squaddies. 59 were from off-duty bike crashes.


In USA it's such a problem that there are specific training tie-ins for the military. When I started with the MSF (on US airbases) it was a condition of taking a bike onto the base that the owner had to take training. Our courses ended when the base commander imposed an outright ban on bikes on the base.
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Horse wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 7:38 pm an Army rehab place somewhere south of London.
Headley Court?
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slowsider wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 7:45 pm
Horse wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 7:38 pm an Army rehab place somewhere south of London.
Headley Court?
Rings a bell. Did you meet Kaz? :)
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Horse wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 7:45 pm
slowsider wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 7:45 pm
Horse wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 7:38 pm an Army rehab place somewhere south of London.
Headley Court?
Rings a bell. Did you meet Kaz? :)
No but i used to pass it on the way to outpatient appointments in Epsom. After a motorcycle accident.