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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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According to new research published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, New Zealand's 1994 cycle helmet law resulted in a 51 per cent drop in the average hours cycled and by 2003-7 cyclists had a 20 per cent higher crash rate compared with pre law. Comparing the ratio of cyclist to pedestrian injuries from 1988-91 to 2003-07 showed that cyclists' injuries more than doubled compared with pedestrians.
Moreover, by using the World Health Organisation HEAT tool that quantifies the health benefits of cycling and walking, the author concludes that around 53 additional premature deaths have occurred per year as a result of the cycling that has been deterred by helmet legislation.
Fri 10 Feb 2012
