Originally Posted by
Rimmer
Sorry but I believe it's warranted. Something is almost always behind you. To me it seems comparable to a phobia. [SNIP]
Yes, chickened and that was a critique. I thought that particular statistical figure wasn’t uncommon knowledge at least for safety-oriented commuters, and several others here have acknowledged that fact
Ah, the the old "phobia" ploy. I thought your fear of the rear rhetoric sounded familiar. You wouldn't happen to have your copy of
Effective Cycling handy would you? You can probably find some more similar "stuff" with similar objectivity and similar analytic techniques about cycling risk.
Is the raw data of an 18 year old study without any methodology listed and Mr Bluejay's web site the source of all "common knowledge" about the relative risk encountered by cyclists in various environments? Or just your source?