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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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Three decades ago most children rode bikes to school or walked — now only 5 per cent do, according to research compiled by Bicycle Victoria in a study of statistics from Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria over eight years to 2006.
Bicycle Victoria said its research indicated that three decades ago, 80 per cent of children rode or walked to school. Now just 5 per cent do.
"Since then, childhood obesity has ballooned to the point where it is an extremely serious problem," Bicycle Victoria program manager Leigh Snelling, said. "Kids aren't getting the hour-a-day's exercise they need just to stay healthy, let alone get fit."
During the morning rush hour, 17 per cent of traffic was children being driven to school, even when living within two kilometres.
The Age
Mon 26 Mar 2007
