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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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On 16 February 2010 Mexico City scrapped its mandatory cycle helmet law that was only enacted in 2009.
The Government wants to boost cycling in the city from a modal share of 2% to 5% within 3 years and its Secretaria del Medio Ambiente (Department of Environment) realised that obliging cyclists to wear a helmet gave the impression that riding a bicycle was inherently dangerous and that wouldn't encourage people to cycle more in order to reach the 5% target.
There was also the fear that an unhelmeted cyclist would automatically be at fault in any crash even if the blame lay primarily with a motorist. In December 2008, 94% of cyclists did not wear a helmet.
On the same day as the repeal of the helmet law, the first public bicycle system, Ecobici, was launched, which is part of the Government's plan to increase the number of cycling commuters. The viability of the rental scheme was threatened if its users had to wear a helmet.
Tue 16 Feb 2010
