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More dangerous than riding a bike? I exceedingly doubt that, could you link those statistics?

• askmike 9y ago
  Not sure about how unsafe offices are but here is a paper showing statistics about how it is safer to ride a bike than to not ride one. As in "[cycling has] shown beneficial effects on population risk of all-cause mortality (ACM)": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25344355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25344355/
  • larkeith 9y ago
    Huh, that's an interesting result, though perhaps not entirely unexpected. Another aggregate study can be found at [1]. I still suspect that the difference in risk between biking without a helmet and with a helmet is significant, and that the studies aggregated likely had a majority of riders using helmets (this is entirely based on subjective experience of US cyclist helmet-wearing probabilities, so let me know if that's wrong).
    • askmike 9y ago
      I'm not sure, but I do know that in the Netherlands no one bikes with a helmet, and it's considered very safe: I took the bicycle to school ever since mid primary school (we don't have school busses or anythig like that.) The only people that I ever see wearing helmets on bicycles are North American tourists.
      • larkeith 9y ago
        I guess it depends heavily on the locale - I live in Portland, and while we're one of the most bike-friendly cities in the US, going helmetless would be risky at best, though outside city limits wouldn't be as concerning.