Here's a good question. Do you base how you live your life on statistics? Surely you only eat the most healthy foods and never indulge in the consumption of alcohol beyond the optimum number of milligrams of red wine per day?

If you are that kind of a sad person, be sure to calculate the expected lifespan of a regular bicycle commuter versus a full-time car commuter. Yes, include death due to accident, which may or may not be higher for the cyclist than for the driver. But then also include the significantly increased risk of heart disease and a whole range of cancers that increases due to a more sedentary lifestyle.

This calculation has been done by others in the past and the result was that the added years of life due to being less likely to come down with fatal diseases earlier in life outweigh the risk of death by traffic accident by a factor of TWENTY.

This doesn't even count the fact that the last few years of your life are likely to be of higher quality if you were fit throughout your life than if not.