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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 Vancouver wants to roll out a bike-share scheme like others that have proved popular around the world, but its helmet law is giving it problems. Cities such as Melbourne that have laws have found it impossible to get sufficient people to use their hire bikes.
The Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition believes “the over-emphasis of helmet use is detrimental.” VACC vice-president Lori Kessler suggests the winning operator of a local bike sharing business could argue for an exemption to the mandatory use of helmets on business grounds. However, this is being resisted by city councillors.
The city council was expected to announce a winner before the end of September, but the selection process has been postponed without a clear timeline.
Thu 22 Sep 2011
