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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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Re-analysis challenges key helmet research
A peer-reviewed paper accepted for publication in Accident Analysis & Prevention
read more ... 12 Feb 2011
High School students graduating to be cancer and cardiovascular patients
Cancer Council Australia and the Heart Foundation say their national diet and phy
read more ... 9 Feb 2011
Doctors draw attention to helmet hanging risk
Four pathologists have written to The Medical Journal of Australia about their in
read more ... 3 Jan 2011
Helmet Wars: A gripping account of the great bicycle helmet campaigns
Grist.org
read more ... 20 Dec 2010
TEDxCopenhagen - Mikael Colville-Andersen - Why We Shouldn't Bike with a Helmet
Copenhagen's bicycle ambassador talks about how important the bicycle is for liveable cities and how bicycle helmets are threatening bicycle culture.
read more ... 15 Dec 2010
Australian standards chaos
Australia's new standard for bike helmets has been delayed for six months after t
read more ... 9 Dec 2010
Cyclists find way around Dubai law
On the highways and byways of Dubai's bustling Al Satwa district, cycle helmets a
read more ... 4 Dec 2010
Brisbane bikes off to slow start
Bike hire in Brisbane started on October 1 and in the first month and a half (to
read more ... 1 Dec 2010
Fear, risk and helmets
International cycling advocate Mikael Colville-Andersen has given a presentation
read more ... 1 Dec 2010
Melbourne bikes still plagued by helmet law
Despite the Victoria State Government subsidising the sale of helmets from city c
read more ... 29 Nov 2010
Auckland bike hire folds
NextBike, a city bike hire scheme operating in Auckland, New Zealand has folded,
read more ... 15 Nov 2010
Child cycling continues to decline in Australia
The Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday released a report titled Children's
read more ... 12 Nov 2010
Dublin bike scheme set for tenfold expansion
So successful has been the Dublin bike hire scheme that it is to be expanded from
read more ... 12 Nov 2010
Slovenia drops plans for adult helmet law
This week the Ministry of Transport in Ljubliana announced that proposals to make
read more ... 10 Nov 2010
Boy left stranded by police as punishment for not wearing a helmet
Police on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia deflated the tyres of a bike
read more ... 8 Nov 2010