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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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The City of Sydney is considering a bicycle hire scheme, but only if it wins an exemption from compulsory helmet laws. It also wants to finish its network of inner-city bike lanes first.
Sydney has plans for a 2,000 bike hire scheme with 3,500 docking stations. But as a consequence of the poor performance of Melbourne's scheme – in which only 20,600 bikes were hired in the first 4 months compared with over 1 million in a similar period in non-law Montreal – the city is holding off. It notes that successful schemes tend to be in cities without helmet laws.
"The city is considering options for addressing this issue, such as advocating a pilot scheme where helmets are not compulsory for adults in an approved area with low traffic speeds and separated cycleways,", a council spokesman said.
In 2010, Sydney called for a review of helmet legislation.
Mon 5 Mar 2012
