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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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Opponents of a contentious new bike bylaw got their wish in September when the city council in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada unanimously voted it down. Citing the strong and clear message they'd heard from citizens, council members voted 7-0 to defeat the proposed bylaw, which would have made helmets compulsory for adult cyclists and given the green light for cyclists to ride on most sidewalks in the city.
Opponents of the bylaw jammed a public meeting at city hall Aug 30. When the bylaw came up for second reading, Ald. Rajko Dodic opened debate by promptly urging his fellow council members to defeat it. Adults should be able to make the decision whether they will wear a helmet or not, he said. Afterward, Dodic acknowledged the issue is now dead as far as the present council is concerned.
According to Kim Siever of the Bikebridge Cycling Association, instead of implementing new helmet requirements for cyclists, the city should focus on better educating cyclists and drivers about the rules of the road.
Lethbridge Herald
Mon 13 Sep 2010