"American cycling opinion is reduced to having a single source: a fear of motor traffic from behind. There is no other consideration for the rest of the article for what American cycling opinion (whatever the heck that really is) actually might be.

Dot #2
Quote:Is fear of motor traffic from behind a "persistent fear of a circumscribed stimulus?" Yes, it is. The victim fears a specific situation, motor traffic from behind while riding a bicycle.

Now these poor souls are victims of an illness.


Dot #3
Quoteoes exposure to motor traffic from behind, while riding a bicycle, almost invariably provoke an immediate anxiety response. Certainly it does, and even contemplating the exposure of others to the stimulus causes anxiety response, as when people organize political committees to obtain protection from the condition that they fear.

Basically here he is saying that bicycle advocates, the victims above, are just sick phobics and their advocacy is just an anxiety response."



Hey man, I'm not afraid of just traffic from behind. I'm afraid of dying because some jerk isn't paying attention. front, side, back, wherever. I use less-travelled roads to increase my chances of not getting smushed. you think I'm phobic, so what. I do what I feel is right for my personal safety. I like riding but I am not dying for it.