Aside from the wildly different degrees of risk involved, most people biking are doing so to transport themselves from one place to a different location that they have some reason to want to be besides “because it’s there.” A person gets off a bike and is at work, or a grocery store, or daycare. A person gets to the top of a forbidding mountain and winds up… at the top of a forbidding mountain, which now has to be climbed down.
Everyone has the right to their own judgements regarding the value of their journeys and destinations, but I don’t think it’s all that hard to see the difference most perceive between buying groceries and enjoying the stirring view from a life-threatening windswept rock.
