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In article <1993Jan24.092227.10564@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> 
logier@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Rob Logie) writes:

>Wayne Goss, the Premier of Queensland Australia, has started to 
>commute to work on a regular basis by bike. ....Apparently, his 
>fellow politicians are very concerned about the risk to his health !!

You may wish to tell Mr. Goss -- and his concerned peers -- of a 
study published in the British Medical Journal concerning the 
lifetime benefits of cycling as compared to the added risk.  The 
conclusion was that the health and longevity benefits outweighed 
the lifetime risk by several times.  I don't have the reference handy 
(perhaps another reader can post it...)

Studies have also shown that cyclists that know and practice vehicular 
rules of the road have dramatically lower accident rates than less
experienced cyclists, so you can easily increase your benefit-to-risk
ratio even further.  

/John

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