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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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Polls in the Sydney Morning Herald suggest that most people in this part of New South Wales would like to see the state's helmet law repealed.
In the first poll in September 2010, 53% of respondents voted to overturn the law with 47% for keeping it. There were 10,569 votes.
The second poll in November 2010 was smaller but produced a near-identical result. 54% of the 5,050 votes were cast to repeal the law, 46% to keep it.
In September, Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney, said that she thinks the time is right for a review of compulsory helmet legislation.
Wed 3 Nov 2010