On 20/03/17 16:54, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 06:59:40 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:
Check this out: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/arti...enting-bicycle
Don't ride in Auckland, even with a blinky.
-- Jay Beattie.
187 accidents among 162 participants in 6.4 years? The carnage in the
streets must be awful. I would expect all cyclists to be exterminated
within their expected lifetimes. If I ride for 64 years of my life, I
would expect to get hit about 10 times.
Maybe bicycle fashion is the problem?
https://www.google.com/search?q=dazzle+camouflage+bicycle+jacket&tbm=isch
They won't hold off a New York SUV, but they may stop you getting
torpedoed by a German submarine :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle...1)_cropped.jpg