These arguments just get more and more silly. As a utility cyclist I don't cycle in the woods so forget the wire. And as for badly driven vehicles forcing into me, I'm in London for goodness sake, don't you think that's happened to me, often? I just make sure that doesn't affect me, it's easy to do but perhaps that's beyond your conception with your different riding type.
For starters I won't ride without a mirror and use it all the time with good effect. That's why I don't get caught out by the nutters who make close last minute passes in dangerous spots, since I see their likely intention and let them have precedence. That's easy to do at moderate speeds, but not at the daft speeds so many now cycle at in potentially dangerous circumstances. Like Wheeler who posted above, I'm as safe with my type of cycling as I am walking, and I don't wear a helmet for walking.
I've had a long lifetime of cycling and motorcycling with not a mark on me from that. It proves my point about my knowing best about my own safety, certainly better than anyone else can know.
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Your right this is getting silly! But I like silly on a Sunday morning so lets get more silly.
Do you believe that you are totally in control of your life and your actions alone determine how you navigate your way through the world and there is no such thing as fate or that someone could be lucky/unlucky?
Years ago I had a car crash, the detail isnt important but the basics are that I stopped at a red light, the bus behind me didn't and hit me hard enough to write off the car. The driver accepted full responsibility on the spot, but the reality is that at that point in space and time he was too close and couldn't stop.
So lets go back an hour and 10 miles down the road when his journey started and imagine the chain of events that led to that point in time, again the detail isn't important.. He had travelled 10 miles, passed about 30 stops and picked up or dropped off around 100 passengers with each pickup/drop-off time being determined by the number of passengers at the stop which in turn determines how many cars pass while its stationary or whether or not it gets to the next set of lights at green or red. Now lets look at just one of those passengers.. who could have been delayed for a number of reasons, perhaps the dog shat on the carpet which had to be cleaned up ending with this passenger missing an earlier bus. If this dog hadn't shat on the carpet this passenger would have boarded the earlier bus and my bus's journey would have changed ever so slightly so that at "the point in time" of my accident it could have been slightly further up or down the road resulting in a different outcome.
So does that mean that a dog pooping on a carpet 10 miles away and an hour before I even started my journey initiated a chain of events that resulted in me getting my car squished?
And that's only one passenger, what about the other 99?
Is that's what's referred to as the butterfly effect?
Did I mention silly?
