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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 long article in the June 2013 edition of Bicycling Magazine says that current bicycle helmets haven't been designed to prevent injuries like concussions and other brain injuries. It states that "none of us – not you, not me, not the helmet manufacturers or even the testing agencies – know for certain whether your helmet will prevent you from getting hurt".
The article exposes what are claimed to be serious shortcomings in the design of current bicycle helmets along with the political and commercial interests preventing change. Bicycling Magazine has previously been uncritical of bicycle helmet use, but now says that bicycle helmets are not all they are cracked up to be.
A shortened version of the full article can be found on the magazine's website
Sat 1 Jun 2013
