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Looking back on it now, I would say that the criterion for a safe flight (any flight which didn't involve an injury indicating the need for treatment by a licensed medical professional) was too lenient. Today I would say it shouldn't count as a safe flight if, for example, you broke a downtube. A few years ago (or maybe it was 10 or 12--when you get to be my age it's hard to tell) we had a short--lived controversy over "dangerous bars." The idea was that manufacturers were making dangerous control bars, because when smaller pilots with smaller bones crashed, their bones broke before the downtubes did. (Today, most of the complaints I hear are from the other side, pilots who would rather have stronger downtubes even if their bones break before the downtubes, because they're tired of buying $65 downtubes, which they're doing with some regularity.) I have a different suggestion for both of these problems. Why don't we just stop crashing?