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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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Proposals for a cycle helmet law in Northern Ireland are not being revived.
A private member's bill to introduce a helmet law for all cyclists in the province went to committee stage earlier this year. The bill was unlikely to have become law before the Northern Ireland Assembly elections in May and would then need to have been reintroduced, but a committee hearing into evidence nevertheless took place.
Assembly members on the committee said that not only were they surprised by the breadth of opposition to a law – coming from doctors and health professionals as well as cyclists – but they were also taken aback by the weakness of the arguments that they heard in support of one.
The main political parties subsequently decided not to support a helmet law and the bill has not been reintroduced.
Sun 31 Jul 2011