Exactly. And, yet, we have a name for the fear that someone like that suffers from:
equinophobia.
Of course, the cyclist-inferiority phobia is different, since the source of the fear is not the bicycle, or riding the bicycle, but riding a bicycle in a certain context: in
motor traffic. In that sense the cyclist-inferiority phobia is more similar to
fear of flying, where of course, the victim does not fear airplanes, but airplanes in a certain context: in the air. Another similarity between
cyclist-inferiority phobia and
fear of flying is the element of feeling vulnerable to a threat over which the victim feels powerless.
Frankly, I don't understand why there is so much resistance to the theory that the cyclist-inferiority phobia exists. It seems pretty obvious to me. I wish we could just accept it, and move on to talk about what to do about it.