Originally Posted by
elvez
Yep I am. It's not a crippling fear but it's the activity I perform everyday that has the greatest potential to kill me. I see it as a forgone conclusion so Its not really a big fear anymore. I imagine when it happens and as I lay passing I will think..F*ck, a Smart Car?
OF course one should have just as many negative thoughts while in the car but, north american culture has billed the bicycle as exceedingly dangerous and a car as safe. This lack of social normalization and cultural internalization of risk has a lot todo with your original worries and the worries of the OP that they are doing something reckless