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A study in the news links casual bike riding to male infertility.

Answer: False. According to a much-publicized Austrian study, it’s extreme bikers who experience frequent jolts and vibrations that in turn might cause small scars within the scrotum and impair sperm production. Nearly 90 percent of avid mountain bikers studied had low sperm counts and scrotal abnormalities.