My husband has had 3 motorcycle accidents, one hit head on, the second sideswiped by a guy that thought he wanted to take a left but went right, and the third was a bump from behind at a light that knocked the bike forward and over.
While seeing the surgeon ( a hand specialist) to fix his hand from the first accident (the head on) he was giving hubby a ration of crap about how dangerous riding a Harley was. Hubby was looking around the office while the doc blabbed on and on....he than asked him if those were him in the pictures. The dr happened to be a mountain climber, he had several pictures of himself hanging by ropes as well as a pic of himself at the top of Mt Everest ( I found out later my cousin was on that climb with him). When the dr said yes that was him in the pics my husband started giving him back exactly the same thing only about climbing mountians with nothing but a rope to save you. The doc shook his hand (the uninjured one) and agreed they both had dangerous hobbies.
Oh and for the record, in the head on the only injury he sustained was a broken thumb and a slight concussion (yes he had all the protective gear on). The other accidents he was uninjured and we attribute that to his lifetime of experience riding.
No matter what you do for a hobby there are risks whether it's riding a bike, mountian climbing or heck even surfing 
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