Vehicular Cycling (VC) - Can any Vehicular Cyclist show me where VC has increased uptake in cycling?

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genec
11-30-08, 10:42 AM
How about if you actually show the full studies rather than some abstract! I am sure JF and HH have already sighted the problems with these so called studies to you.

http://www.magma.ca/~ocbc/safeinnumbers.pdf

You have to register for the other one...

But the abstracts convey the information just fine...

GutterNinja!
11-30-08, 11:09 AM
Genec, though your study was obviously regarding Australia, it's interesting to see the same common thread and the same results repeated in various peer-reviewed research. I posted one in A&S that looked much the same and came to much the same conclusion, showing the same inverse correlation between number of cyclists and cycling's inherent safety.
gcottay
11-30-08, 11:15 AM
The only study I know has only two subjects. My spouse and I ride many more miles in many more places using VC strategies than we did when still harboring our childhood ideas that bikes do not really belong on the road. That we will both use bike lanes when they make sense and enjoy some separated paths renders the study suspect.

genec
11-30-08, 11:22 AM
Genec, though your study was obviously regarding Australia, it's interesting to see the same common thread and the same results repeated in various peer-reviewed research. I posted one in A&S that looked much the same and came to much the same conclusion, showing the same inverse correlation between number of cyclists and cycling's inherent safety.

Exactly... I originally cited that study also.


The only study I know has only two subjects. My spouse and I ride many more miles in many more places using VC strategies than we did when still harboring our childhood ideas that bikes do not really belong on the road. That we will both use bike lanes when they make sense and enjoy some separated paths renders the study suspect.

Of course you did, in an auto centric society you have to act like the driver of a vehicle to fit into that specific environment at some point... having to use that "coping technique" however hasn't done a thing to improve the numbers of cyclists... which would, according to the studies mentioned, improve the safety of all cyclists.