Once the trip starts taking more than half an hour each way, the number of participants falls off dramatically. Therefore, although you may go faster and farther in a car, you will spend about the same amount of time doing it. Your risk for the period you spend in a car is twice as high as the same period you spend on a bike. How Safe is Winter Cycling Winter cyclist report few serious accicents. There are the occasional crashes but because of extra clothing and a slippery surface to land on, these usually result in less injury than would be sustained by a bare limbed cyclist on dry pavement.
Road rash is just about unheard of.
One of the questions asked concerned the worst accident that respondents had experienced while cycling in winter. The results were surprising. These results are replicated below and on the full result page . Only slightly over 4 percent had ever required medical attention for a winter cycling accident. Yet this is not to say that winter cycling is uneventful.