Re: Learning about risk, from playing
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 7:38 pm
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.
