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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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Australia's new standard for bike helmets has been delayed for six months after the government was lobbied by the bike industry, which was concerned that a number of wholesalers and retailers had been caught overstocked in helmets of the previous standard.
Helmets labelled with the old standard can now be sold until 30 June 2011, provided they also comply with the new AS/NZS 2063:2008 standard, which was to have been introduced on 12 December, 2010.
This paradoxical situation has arisen because some helmets meet both the old and new standards. It seems that some suppliers of such helmets failed to obtain proper compliance with the 2008 standard.
Consumers will face uncertainty. It appears that some consumers will purchase helmets in the next six months with nothing more than the the good faith of the retailer to re-assure them that their new helmet meets the new standard.
Bicycle Victoria has confirmed that one distributor has been urging retailers to mislead customers in regard to the provenance of their company's helmets. In one case, only the colour of the helmet box can help the customer differentiate between a compliant and non-compliant version of a helmet.
Bicycle Victoria says it is a poor reflection on some sectors of the industry that they were ignorant of the coming regulation change.
Thu 9 Dec 2010
