Originally Posted by
RobertHurst
The claim is false.
All that is shown by the studies is that more cycling experience corresponds to lower accident rates.
Forester would have us believe that club cycling and greater cycling experience in general corresponds to vehicular cycling. That's a bogus assumption. Not only is this assumption not supported, there is evidence to the contrary, in the Dennerlein study of Boston messengers.
For the times in which I, and others, developed the data that I have used, cyclists who cycled with clubs behaved much more in the vehicular manner than did the general cycling population. That difference had been measured. About the very different population of current bicycling enthusiasts, some being bicycle advocates and others being racer wannabes, I have no such data, but external evidence suggests a great difference from times past. And at no time have I ever considered the characteristics of bicycle messengers as a source of data.