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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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Over the past 16 years, around 134,000 New Zealanders - about 3% of the population - have been fined for cycling without a helmet. In the context that fewer than 2% of road trips in New Zealand are by bike, that suggests that a high level of dislike for the law and one that is increasing.
In the 12 months to 30 June 2009, police issued almost 10,000 infringement notices to people cycling without a helmet. In the previous 12 months, 8,457 notices were issued and in the year before that 6,800.
Several New Zealand groups support a review of the helmet law, including the Cycling Advocates Network, which believes it puts people off using bikes.
A study from Macquarie University in Sydney found compulsory helmet use discouraged people from cycling. It said savings from treating fewer head injuries paled in comparison to costs incurred by decreases in cycling.
Based on Herald on Sunday, 17 January 2010
Sun 17 Jan 2010