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> Bicycling, even with a helmet, strikes me as an irresponsibly risky activity. The evidence does not support your intuition. Even after controlling for the ri

• saalweachter 13y ago
  More healthy than the typical American lifestyle, certainly, but how does it compare against other lifestyles with similar levels of physical activity? For instance, running, walking, or swimming?
  • pbreit 13y ago
    Kind of a silly point. First, can you swim to work? But, really, you are suggesting that everything always be reduced to whatever is "the best".
    • saalweachter 13y ago
      Silly? I had a hard time tracking down good, comparable numbers, but here are some numbers I biasedly picked to support my question: * Cycling: 14 months (http://www.bikeradar.com/us/news/article/regular-cyclists-could-live-14-months-longer-than-car-drivers-28162/) * Jogging: 6.2 years (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/jogging-life-expectancy-_n_1472318.html) * Swimming: "longer than runners" (http://www.chatelaine.com/health/swimmers-live-longer-than-runners/) These numbers (which could be wrong, I didn't dig too far) say you have more to gain going from cycling to running than you do from driving to cycling. So why focus on getting people cycling instead of getting people jogging?
      • freiheit 13y ago
        Because you can use cycling as transportation better than you can jogging. That makes it easier to incorporate into a lifestyle, as opposed to an extra thing you add into your day.