There are a lot of people that ride bicycles for sport, not for transportation. I suppose you could be right that most people ride for transportation and not recreation, but it would depend on the geographic area you are considering. The question I’d pose, ignoring the emotionally loaded “forbidding mountain” and “life-threatening windswept rock” is why do you feel safer on the road on a bicycle, if you do? Do accident statistics actually back up the assertion that you are safer on a bicycle, or is it just a matter of familiarity?
