Watch out for douchebags trying to clothes line you

I wasn't talking about overall violent crime.
The specific kind of attack mentioned in the OP is very very rare.How many miles a week, or a month, or a year, does the membership of LFGSS ride? And how many of those journeys ended in this kind of incident?

Right, so there's gangs who specialise in only mugging cyclists from this forum. That's good to know, seeing as it's so rare it should be easy to avoid.