text: freeheels, you don't know me, so don't pretend you know what I do for recreation. 
  
  Before 2000 no cyclists had been killed, and only three cyclists had been injured in Canada and one in Alaska, all by grizzly bears. Since 2000 at least 18 cyclists have run into a bear or had a bear run into them. I'd call those maulings. Ten of the 18 encounters involved black bears.