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Miss_Mouse
Possibly because cyclists are not cars?
There's a thread running on Pistonheads at the moment wherein the OP and his cohorts assert that speed has nothing to do with the danger potential of a vehicle.
A large part of this is the sincere belief on the behalf of most of the mega-Partridges who make up the Pistonheads membership that they are all better drivers than the past 50 years of F1 World champions combined, and that therefore they could drive at 4,000 mph, blindfold, on the telephone, drunk, in perfect safety.
Where it gets entertaining is when they try to deny things such as reaction time, thinking time etc actually exist.
The LOL's never stop, literally.
Anyway, maybe a way of thinking about these things would be to ascribe a value to a travelling object, some sort of combination of kinetic energy and inherant stability.
i.e. a train would have simply enormous KE, but a very low instability figure, and a very low collisison probability.
A car would have a high KE, low I, but high CP, and CP could be variable for time of day, lighting etc.
Bikes would have a very very low KE, moderate to high I, and a low CP.