sounds reasonable.My point about RM and People involved in biking:
1. Generally don't give the weight to society's opinion as the average joe, being a pretty individualistic bunch.
2. Are participating in a fairly dangerous sport (#2 sport cause of ER visits)
3. RM'ers in particular are intelligent enough to think for themselves and make their own decisions.
So basically you have a bunch of people who aren't afraid, don't care what society thinks, and are smart enough to make their own decisions and survive.
but what happens when the said society makes up more and more laws to restrict what is not thought to be "normal"? at a certain point most people will obey laws to a great extent and cease to participate in said legal, educational and healthy activities.
there are things I grow up doing that is facing extinction and most people on RM will not care when it's completely out-lawed. who's being smart then? cyclists can moan and bitch all they want but at the same time there are treasured traditions in America that is facing extinction-via-legislation, and I'm certain most RMs will cheer if not apathetically say "meh" and go back to web-surfing.