Here’s my 20th or so….the correlation between being a boring person and a triathlete is .999999
Hi viz is also a waste of time or worse, its security theatre.
I look so good in yellow tho
There’s risks whether you wear a helmet or not and a helmet. The risk of a serious head injury are about the same as walking. Pretty dam low.
If a vehicle is involved, well helmet design and testing standards don’t cover such situations where the energies involved far exceed by orders of magnitude what a cycle helmet can absorb.
As an unpopular opinion post, you have my sympathy! 
There is a study where the only thing it showed was that if you wire high viz you were more likely to be involved in an accident. Plus you have to ask if there is a universal high viz for all situations. For instance is yellow high viz against a setting sun or a field of sun flowers?
If you want to look for solutions reduce the speed and weight of motor vehicles.
I’ve been on this forum for years, I think I just found my soul mate.
I’ve done presentations using this as an example of how people can’t understand risk.
…it’s not very popular! Which is partly why I use it.
Interesting. I avoid black. Just doesn’t look right. White goes with everything but I also like yellow, blue, and red.
I guess more options for me then
This is also a useful one from our health safety executive in the UK. The Local traffic neighbourhood (LTNs) is about physically removing the hazard (rat running drivers).
I mean, that’s just saying that telling people to wear helmets doesn’t prevent head injuries. A handful of links up above provide a pretty good counterpoint that I’m not sure you’ve addressed.
That said, I’m 100% with you on making cars slower and smaller to save lives. Ever since I watched this video:
I can’t stop seeing how many stupid big trucks are out there and thinking about the relationship between size and speed in car vs. pedestrian/bike collisions.
Yeah, sorry…that reads like someone that worked really hard to make a point. Whole lotta qualifiers in there.
I’ll stick with the multiple studies I cited.
Today’s trucks are roughly the same LxW dimensions of a WWII Sherman tank.
Generally speaking, pickup trucks in the U.S. are about the same length as a Sherman tank, give or take a few inches, and less than two feet narrower. The biggest difference is in height. The Sherman was 108 inches tall, whereas trucks tend to have a cab height of about 76 inches.
Think about that for a hot second. Insane.
And we sell them to the some of the worst humans in the population. We need to tax the hell out of large vehicles in cities.
Assuming same weight, a vehicle traveling at 40mph has 4x the kinetic energy as a vehicle at 20mph.
If a vehicle traveling at 20mph can just barely stop for a pedestrian/cyclist, the same vehicle traveling at 40mph will be doing 34mph after the same braking distance.
Speed can be scary.
Maybe not unpopular here but
Giant trucks are obvious phallic symbols.
Also
The ultimate in automotive design is clearly the minivan.
Joe
+1 on minivans.
And some mountain bikers give crap to others for being “over biked” yet drive big ass trucks around the city. 
There it is, the real unpopular opinion
I get the pushback on always having pink jerseys/bikes for women, but I’d vastly prefer a good strong pink to the wimpy pastel lilac/mint/floral nonsense that seems to have replaced it. Also ‘women’s specific’ bikes/saddles/whatever seem to only cater to one body type, and you’re better off just doing a bit of research and buying stuff that fits your proportions.
Most cyclists who participate in volunteer-supported events don’t volunteer halfway enough.
I have never understood why the default approach to getting more youth into cycling seems to be some combination of ‘cater sport entirely to wealthy middle-aged professionals because money’ and ‘sh*t on the kids.’