Originally Posted by
axolotl
I'm experienced and I dispute what you wrote. My close calls have typically been within an hour's cycling distance from my home. I've found that there are a lot more aggressive drivers in my own urban backyard than in the typically quiet rural roads I deliberately seek out when touring.
How can you dispute what I wrote when choose to miss the obvious point of my post.
Touring forces one to take roads of a sort that can be avoided around home. If you disagree with that, then you don't have as much experience as you think you do...