Originally Posted by
duckbill
To be fair, many world cyclists have traveled through Pakistan without incident. Rarely do we here the whole story, maybe the appointed guards drew attention to the cyclist who on his own may not have been in any danger.
To use common sense, as you mention, one should avoid traveling in Texas because of all the road deaths including the large number of hit and run incidents.
If I were told that a squad of armed guards would be required to escort me, I'd reconsider the route. Texas does rank around 4th in bicycle fatalities in number, but further down percentage wise when the state's population is considered. Texas' population is primarily in a handful of population centers
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811743.pdf . Ontario did better than Texas in total number of cyclist deaths
http://www.mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca/engli...view.html#data .
Brad