I'm not entirely sure about the numbers and I don't know how you could compare. However, on any given friday night and all weekend, there are a whole lot of folks driving everything from carts to clapped out stockcars to formula cars, to late models to sports cars and beyond. Hundreds show up for the drags every weekend. I kinda made the same assumption until I started to think about all of the local dirt trackers, drag racers and cart folks who race every weekend. I didn't count the autoXers, but I should have because there have been extremely rare fatalities. When you make a stupid mistake in a racecar, it usually costs you a lot of money. In a Kayak, when things go wrong, it gets really bad. I'd bet that in many portions of the country including my neck of the woods, northeastern PA, folks involved with motor sports out number the kayakers by a good margin. John MacKechnie Again, I don't know how fair the comparison is, but I found it to be rather ironic. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 22 2002 - 12:17:50 PDT
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