Bulk homopolymerizations of vinyl acetate and vinyl pivalate are studied by EPR experiments between −65 °C and 60 °C with dicumyl peroxide acting as the photoinitiator. No midchain radicals are seen, which demonstrates that backbiting plays no role. The chain-length dependence of the termination rate coeffi cients measured up to 13% monomer conversion is adequately represented by the composite model. The power-law exponents α s and α l for short-chain and long-chain radicals are: α s (VAc) = 0.57 ± 0.05, α s (VPi) = 0.67 ± 0.15, α l (VAc) = 0.16 ± 0.07, and α l (VPi) = 0.16 ± 0.07. The crossover chain lengths differ largely: i c (VAc) = 20 ± 10 and i c (VPi) = 110 ± 30. The rate coeffi cient for termination of two radicals of chain length unity, k t 1,1 , which is the fourth composite-model parameter, depends on temperature, as does the monomer fl uidity.