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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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Research for the Transportøkonomisk institutt (TØI)in Norway finds that helmets have failed to prove themselves in real world settings, and the scientific evidence is inconclusive. In Norway there has been a shift towards more severe injuries among cyclists at the same time that cycle helmet use has increased.
One hypothesis is that helmets make people ride less carefully; another is that helmet use can be correlated in part with usage of cycling jerseys, cycling computers and such, which in turn is correlated with higher speeds and more risky styles of riding. In Norway, competitive-style cyclists now make up a larger proportion of the cycling population.
It is suggested that helmet laws and promotion discourage the everyday and more cautious cyclists who quit cycling, while encouraging those who take more risks.
Thu 6 Aug 2009
