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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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Research that has looked at child bicycle-related injury rates (head and other) in Canada over the past decade has found that head injury rates are declining. However, this is not consistent across the country, nor is it attributable to cycle helmet legislation as some provinces with legislation experienced a decline while others did not.
During the 10 years there were 23,685 hospital admissions due to bicycle-related injuries among Canadian children age 5–19 (76% boys and 24% girls). A total of 22% of the children sustained a head injury while 78% had other injuries due to a bicycle incident. 22% of boys and 21% of grils incurred a head injury. The injury rate varied by age group and by provincial legislation status.
Childhood bicycle related injuries were extracted from the Canadian Institute for Health Information hospital admissions database. Injury rates were calculated for each province for children aged 5–19 using 2001 census data.
The outcome of the research is significant as one of the authors is Alison Macpherson who has previously been an author of much pro-helmet research and an active campaigner for helmet laws.
Wed 23 Nov 2011