Originally Posted by
Cyclesafe
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...
IMO, if you choose your touring regions and roads intelligently, you greatly reduce your risk. I have found that in urban areas, you are much more exposed to aggressive drivers, people talking on cell phones, clueless teenagers, and the like. As for experience, I've toured in over 30 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. Collectively, my tours have added up to several years of my life, including one tour which lasted 14 months. My close calls have mostly come on the urban roads near my home on the east coast of the US. FWIW, when I lived in northern California I found that drivers there are both more competent and more polite than drivers on the east coast.
You seem to have a serious issue if someone reaches a different conclusion from your own.