Well, if you're right, then I guess a US bicycle rider's live in not worth a lot ! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

A very good friend of mine, who is a cyclo-tourist (?) since her teens (even before she was ten, as her whole familly spent all their vacations on the roads of Europe, bicycling ....) is presently recovering from a bad accident : she has been run over by a car, while bicycling on a straight road ...