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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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The Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg has come up with a helmet that emits a smell when it is damaged. The strength of the smell varies with the amount of damage.
IWM notes that the smallest crack can significantly weaken a helmet’s structural integrity. On the other hand, people often replace their helmets unnecessarily after dropping them on the ground, because they cannot tell whether they are damaged or not.
The smell comes from odoriferous oils enclosed in microcapsules, which are inserted in a thick foil made of polypropylene, fastened to the head gear.
The helmet is still in the testing phase, with no word yet on a commercial release.
Thu 21 Oct 2010
