"Killer" bikes

[Bman]

Ni, I must have missed that.

I think the last Moyles parody I heard was Totally Addicted to Plaice as I'm just not a R1 type person since I grew an an extra decade.

There's the Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference again!

 

[Bollo]

I'm hoping the Telegraph have done the Prof an injustice with that article as it ludicrous in its current form.

I've pretty much stopped worrying about what our popular media decides to make up about cycling and cyclists. Most of the right-leaning press make their sales by feeding back their readership's prejudices in handy, pre-chewed boluses of petty small-mindedness.

 

[Crankarm]

A pic and a little about the author of the article in the Torygraph.

Kate Devlin

Kate Devlin is the Medical Correspondent for The Telegraph newspaper and website. She writes on everything from swine flu to the challenges facing the NHS, and was previously Scottish Political Correspondent.


One would have thought she would have some brains then. Obviously not, certainly no medical or scientific qualifications having written an article such as this. Or if she has she ought to know better.

Her article even got past an editor. Just shows standards at the Telegraph are slipping.

Actually she looks young and green enough to be the work placement temp .

 

[Davidc]

Do killer bikes hunt in packs?

If so its a good thing the 4 in my garage are all well chained to the floor and wall!

 

[Tynan]

a great deal of things kill more people than international terrorism

falling down the stairs
driving
bad food
trampolenes
broken paving stones
the common cold

you get the picture

 

[HJ]

Look like another one for More or Less, they enjoy debunking junk science reported in the press...

 

[dellzeqq]

A pic and a little about the author of the article in the Torygraph.

Kate Devlin

Kate Devlin is the Medical Correspondent for The Telegraph newspaper and website. She writes on everything from swine flu to the challenges facing the NHS, and was previously Scottish Political Correspondent.


One would have thought she would have some brains then. Obviously not, certainly no medical or scientific qualifications having written an article such as this. Or if she has she ought to know better.

Her article even got past an editor. Just shows standards at the Telegraph are slipping.

Actually she looks young and green enough to be the work placement temp .

I've been saying it for almost a year. The Barclay brothers are down to their last few billions and can't afford proper journalists. Hence the teenage scribblers.

 

[tordis]

Whoops, they finally figured it out: we're all suicides in disguise
(Blimey, that theory's better than the life-on-earth-came-from-aliens one )

 

[DJ]

The 7/7 London bombings may have resulted in a “second wave” of casualties on the roads as people switched from the tube to travelling by bicycle, psychiatrists believe.



There is possibly something in this (I seem to recall a similar case made after 9/11 when people switched to driving rather than taking domestic flights in the US). However the reporting is astoundingly bad. The comments are worth reading though.

Which has killed the most number of people? in ten years ,yes more people riding bikes have been killed in ten years than where killed in one day due to the 7/7 bombings!!!!!!!!!!!! The figures are not camparable and are not related to each other in any way!!!!

It's like me saying fishing is more dangerous than playing pool!!!!!!!! Why would anyone make the comparison?

Just the fact that people abandoned and are still abandoning the smelly sweaty tube for a greener more enjoyable form of transport does not mean the cause and the effect should be compared in a statistical view.!

 

[Lizban]

Quick question. Measured in deaths per mile travelled which is safer the Tube or cycling?

 

[Arch]

Look like another one for More or Less, they enjoy debunking junk science reported in the press...

or Bad Science...

http://www.badscience.net/

 

[manalog]

As someone already said Terrorism and Cycling deaths are incomparable, maybe if there is a Terrorist attack everyday maybe they are comparable. This is just sh!te Journalism and no scientific data to back it up. I think the Telegraph just want some controversy to be noticed.

 

[Origamist]

Quick question. Measured in deaths per mile travelled which is safer the Tube or cycling?

The Tube, but you already knew that Lizban...

 

[BentMikey]

The article is almost certainly incorrect, and looking at just transport related deaths. On average a regular UK cyclist will live for 2 years longer than the rest of the population. This implies the author has not taken into account health related deaths for tube users, or health improvements in those that now cycle regularly.

 

[Lizban]

The Tube, but you already knew that Lizban...

I would have guessed that but would have no way of proving it.

So let's assume that the TUBE is safer per mile traveled - any action that moves people from a safer to a more dangerous form of transport can be partially blamed for more deaths, but for the terrorist attack would that cyclist have been killed.

Before you all go nuts this is clearly a narrow minded view that looks at one element of cycling in isolation and fails to acknowledge the wider picture and benefits - speed, cost, enjoyment fitness greenness etc etc etc

Not the best article but I think it raises a valid discussion point but has been badly handled.