IME the chance of something happening to me on a bike I can’t do anything about is vanishingly small.
Negligible.
Except when I used to hang onto trucks; I was obviously living on borrowed time doing that…
But normally? Pff. You know how you don’t wear a bike helmet when you walk down the street, or ride in a car? Right, so given the risk of sustaining a serious head injury per million hours is pretty much the same for these three activities, believe it or not (it’s the drunk pedestrians getting hit by cars), and the fact you don’t hear people banging on about the ‘many external factors that can kill you’ if you’re riding in a car or walking down the street, it seems to me that most folks’ judgement of risk isn’t worth a pinch of shit.
Particularly if they’re total noobs at whatever they’re judging.
I worry more about my safety when I’m driving over 60km/h or so, as is actually appropriate.
