Originally Posted by
RobertHurst
Veteran messengers are the most experienced bicyclists in the world, and achieve accident rates far lower than those recorded for "club cyclists." How is that possible. Messengers may not be "normal" but you can and should learn from their experience.
Claims about the "safety record" of vehicular cyclists, or cyclists who have been trained in so-called vehicular cycling techniques, are fabricated from whole cloth. No one has figured out if messengers, club riders or any other group of cyclists are any more or less so-called "vehicular cyclists." There are no safety studies of any kind of cyclists who can be identified as "vehicular cyclists."
For some schemers all cyclists are vehicular cyclists, until they have an accident, then they are not, since a "vehicular cyclist" would never be involved in such accidents.