My USUAL reply to a comment that riding my bike is DANGEROUS is that life is dangerous and I won't consider living in a bubble to be safe. I know that in an altercation with a car or truck on the road, I will be on the receiving end. I told my wife the other day that I probably will get hit by a car eventually, how badly I am hurt is the question. She doesn't like to hear it, but it's the same as my feelings about commuting on a motorcycle, something that I did for a lot of years. It's not if you are going down, it's when. I still carry the scars of some down time on a motorcycle, and have dropped my bicycle a couple times in the last few months, but the drops are slower and less damage ensues. I prefer to commute on the bicycle and will continue to do the DANGEROUS thing twice a day across this little South Florida town where I live. I guess I just had to take a moment to vent, and see what the consensus was...