Random Data Wrote:
Peter Wilson wrote

Showed that in London bike sales have gone through the roof since th
terro
attacks, however they said that a cyclist has an 85% more chance o
bein
killed riding a bike on the road, than from a terrorist attack
ahhhhhh w
just can't win can we

Lets see. There've been of the order of 20 people out of a populatio
of around 50 million (I'm too lazy to look up exact figures) in th
last 5 years in the UK. So over 5 years the odds are around 1 in 2.
million you'll be killed by a terrorist. At the same time we los
around 20 cyclists a year out of a population of 20 million, or 1 in
million per year. So I'd say it's more like 1000% more likely to be hi
by a car, and both are rather unlikely

Dave - who knows those are dodgy statistics, but don't be alarmed.
anyone know the stats for the odds on bike-more-friendly countries lik
Holland & Belgium.....are they best practice that the rest of the U
centric speaking world choses to ignore , for oil's sake....

that is the bottom line to me..Oil and Oil standard ( once the Gol
Standard) but since that was dropped its the oil standard as oi
contracts are in the main written in USD and you need USD to buy them
so the US economy and treasury thrives on increased oil prices, that
why the US is so up the nose of France and Russia as Iran and Ira
started to sell oil for Euros...the Yanks were threatened, the Oi
standard they had set was threatened and hence Saddam had to go...an
the French and Russian contracts with Iraq cancelled......not fo
WMD.... not for the **** he (Saddam) dished out to his own people, bu
for the OIL STANDARD and the USD...meanwhile we mere cyclists i
country's that have a high preponderance of oil dependancy fo
transport are at the mercy of the Oil agenda...there will really neve
be serious heed paid to cycling and its benefits beyond token politica
necessity from time to time whilst we demand Oil as we do...th
Netherlands and Belgium arent so worried and any way the Netherland
has Royal Dutch Shell, so the rest of the world is paying them to rid
bikes...the ultimate irony..

well thats MHO anyway..

* here endeth lesson #2 for tonight, brethren

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rooman