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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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Bike hire in Brisbane started on October 1 and in the first month and a half (to November 17) there have been 2,516 subscriptions, including 478 Casual or Daily ones. That implies that a few more than 2000 ‘serious intent’ users have subscribed, some of whom may have tested the water with a day’s subscription to start with. They have used the scheme 10,569 times, or nearly 225 times per day.
With about 60 of the planned 150 hire stations open by this date, and about 10 bikes per station, each bike was used more than once every three days. This compares with much higher average usage rates for cities without helmet laws, for example in Dublin each bike has been used on average more than 6 times per day.
Brisbane Council has provided for sale or hire of 1635 helmets, 300 to retailers, the remainder to corporate supporters.
Wed 1 Dec 2010
