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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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As London's 'Boris Bikes' bicycle rental scheme approaches its first anniversary of operation, its success has clearly proved the safeness of cycling even in some of the world's busiest urban traffic and confounded those who had predicted that a hire scheme without helmets would be suicidal.
In the first year there were 6 million journeys by nearly 1 million people. In making these journeys there were fewer than 100 casualties of any kind, none of which involved serious injury.
There have been some operational problems, largely due to the fact that there are only 6,000 bikes, a number which is due to grow. On the other hand, only 12 bikes were stolen.
Other rental schemes have also proved to be safe without helmets. In the first 20 months of Dublin's scheme, over 2 million rentals took place with no serious injuries.
Mon 11 Jul 2011
