Cycling community, policy experts call recent bike safety report ‘misleading’ and ‘baloney’


[B'Spokes: To many think that cycling is dangerous and go out of their way to look for things to back up their point of view (conformation bias). This is even more disturbing from "professionals".]
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By Shaun Courtney, Urbanful

A new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), Spotlight on Highway Safety: Bicyclist Safety , raised the specter of an upward trend in the number of bicycle fatalities in the U.S. But critics have been quick to note that the report fails to consider the overall increase in cycling and the downward trend in the rate of fatalities.

Cycling advocates and academic experts in urban planning and policy quickly heaped criticism on the GHSA report, calling it everything from “baloney” to “junk science” to “deliberately misleading.” Ouch.
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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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