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The Case for Not Wearing a Bike Helmet
Helmets have been mandatory in the pro peloton for well over a decade. Where’s the data that it’s helping?
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Bicycle Network campaigns for helmet law reform
Australia's Bicycle Network has come out in favour of reforming Australia's mandatory bicycle helmet law.
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Cycling Tips: Commentary
Commentary: Why I stopped wearing a bike helmet
by Peter Flax
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Bicycling Magazine
It’s Okay If You Don’t Wear a Bike Helmet
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Carlton Reid, transport writer
I Do Not Wear A Bicycle Helmet
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More on Why We Shouldn't Have Mandatory Helmet Laws
Over on VOX, Joseph Stromberg rounds up the studies about bike helmets and concludes that if you want to get more people to ride bikes, then you shoul
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Give Kids Bikes, Not Helmets
Why helmet giveaways are an act of surrender
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Enough with the Smashed Watermelons! Helmet Mania Is Scaring Kids Away from Biking
Free Range Kids
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A proposed citywide bicycle network in Gold Coast, Australia, could be derailed after it emerged that there was no system on the market providing both bikes and helmets.
The bike exchanges used in European cities including Paris, Lyon and Barcelona, do not require helmets. But in Queensland, all cyclists must wear helmets.
Gold Coast Tourism CEO Martin Winter told The Bulletin he would oversee a study into the feasibility of the bike exchanges. Mr Winter said the helmet oversight would have to be sorted out.
"I think helmets is the big issue here and we'll have to try and find a way to work through it," said Mr Winter. "I'm not sure what specific systems there are out there but we'll see how we can get around it.
Sat 1 Nov 2008
