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[TonyR]

The visibility of the cyclist is not really a factor

Clearly not. As the recent Nottingham research showed, despite conspicuity aids making cyclists much more visible, they had no effect on their accident rates with motorists.

[ferdinand]

Weirdly the areas with higher numbers of military personnel tend to link with higher cycling rates.

Bizarrely a lot of these cyclists are wearing camouflage gear

Yet the accident rate doesn't reflect this

There are two reasons.....

Either the MOD needs to rethink camouflage as it doesn't work

The visibility of the cyclist is not really a factor

Assuming that this isn't a satirical comment, I'd love to see a link to the study that supports this.

The active UK military are less than 0.5% of the population. A small proportion of these cycle, and a small proportion of this small proportion who cycle of the small proportion of the population who are in the military ignore the standard advice *not* to wear uniform off base, would be the ones who show up in *any* statistics. Arguing that the absence of impact by a tiny group on national statistics proves anything at all is quite ambitious imo .

@TonyR

Cunobelin wrote:

The visibility of the cyclist is not really a factor

Clearly not. As the recent Nottingham research showed, despite conspicuity aids making cyclists much more visible, they had no effect on their accident rates with motorists.

Can you point me to that study, please Tony? Do you mean the Phil Miller 2012 Thesis?

Ferdinand