Can't find a reference now... but I read a while ago that you can count the risks of cycling differently, if you want. If you cycle to work, you get perhaps an

Can't find a reference now... but I read a while ago that you can count the risks of cycling differently, if you want. If you cycle to work, you get perhaps an extra hour's phyiscal activity compared to driving, and you get some risk of being squished to death by a car. An extra hour's moderate physical activity is good for you, being squished to death is absolutely awful for you, and the story I read said one of the German health insurers did a study and found that the former effect is the bigger for most of the German population. (Or put differently, most Germans don't exercise enough.)