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I suppose where I am is that not many people die from riding a bike when tired; if you know what you are doing you can usually manage it / we all know when we really need to sleep; but it's not very elegant to glorify the sleep dep side of things.
Long thread on yacf at the moment which is about a guy who wrote off his car driving 10km home after riding a 400. He was fine while he was on his bike!
frank9755-
Driving is a whole other kettle of fish. Get me in a warm car after an event and it's the one time I can actually sleep in transport. Not great if you're driving home but that's why I normally would drive for 30-60min post event while adrenalin is high to a services and then kip in the car. Then I'm normally pretty good for the remainder of the trip depending how long it is. Now I don't have a car so I don't care. :)
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driving 10km home after riding a 400
Yeah I had a scary experience with this after doing a 400 as well that really taught me a lesson. Fell asleep at the wheel for a split second. Ended up sleeping in a lay-by for an hour before continuing. Always take sleeping bag now to longer Audaxes just in case.
hippy
jakemcree
cough RAAM cough
Yeah, it's supported but the sleep dep is mental and it's not always follow cars, there's leap frogging going on so your rider is still alone for large amounts of time having slept fuck all.
I don't know where I stand - I'm as bad as anyone else with the sleep dep riding but there's people doing the same thing in cars (as well as drunk and drugged and speeding) so in terms of risk, it's still pretty low for anyone other than the rider themselves when you think of overall traffic.