Cycling, Safety & Health


by Thomas Krag (just highlights)

Thomas' Cycling, Safety and Health article discusses risk perception and how we (often wrongly) measure risk and goes on to highlight how safe cycling is as well as showing the health benefits of having high numbers of bicycle users/Citizen Cyclists in a city or country.

image image image image image PDF http://www.ecf.com/files/2/26/60/050207_Cycling_safety_ecf_Thomas_Krag_1.pdf
http://www.copenhagenize.com/2011/04/cycling-safety-health-by-thomas-krag.html

by B' Spokes

Like most people I live a hectic life and who has the time for much exercise? Thanks to xtracycle now I do. By using my bike for daily activities I can get things done and get an hour plus work out in 15 minutes extra of my time, not a bad deal and beats taking the extra time going to the gym. In case you are still having trouble being motivated; the National Center of Disease Control says that inactivity is the #2 killer in the United States just behind smoking. ( http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/bb_nutrition/ ) Get out there and start living life! I can carry home a full shopping cart of groceries, car pool two kids or just get lost in the great outdoors camping for a week. Well I got go, another outing this weekend.
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bottom two graphs are misleading, in a fairly hilarious way; small amounts of cycling corresponds with a 100% risk?? 100% of people who don't cycle to work will die, whereas only 70% of people who cycle to work will die?!
It's RELATIVE risk, given that behavior has a risk of 1 (100%) other behaviors have a risk lower then 1. Similarly, If gas is $4 a gallon now (1 or 100%) when it was $2 a gallon it was 50% of what it is now. This does not imply gas will never go higher or lower it's just a comparison or what the prises are RELATIVE to each other. I hope this helps.
still looks pretty risky...especially when they define something as 100% risk...
Agreed it should be a risk of 1 and .7, not 100% and 70%