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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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Obesity deadlier than smoking
Obesity has overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature death and illness
read more ... 8 Apr 2010
US DoT restores unhelmeted European images
The US Public Roads has backed down after doctoring photos of European cyclists i
read more ... 28 Feb 2010
Mexico City helmet law repealed after less than a year
On 16 February 2010 Mexico City scrapped its mandatory cycle helmet law that was
read more ... 16 Feb 2010
New helmet designer claims unsafe deficiencies in standard designs
Blake Witherow of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology says that his new '
read more ... 15 Feb 2010
First step towards repealing Israeli helmet law for adults
The Knesset has passed on its first reading a bill that would exempt individuals
read more ... 9 Feb 2010
Fittest children cycle to school
Children who cycle to school are more physically active and fit than those who us
read more ... 28 Jan 2010
Compliance with West Australian helmet law declining
In 2009, 1913 adults and 446 youths were fined for not wearing cycle helmets in W
read more ... 21 Jan 2010
134,000 New Zealanders defy helmet law
Over the past 16 years, around 134,000 New Zealanders - about 3% of the populatio
read more ... 17 Jan 2010
Norwegian research finds no fewer accidents with helmet laws
Research by the Transport Economics Institute (TOI) in Norway has found no eviden
read more ... 15 Jan 2010
Alcohol more significant than helmets in determining head injury
A study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine has failed to "find signific
read more ... 3 Jan 2010
Do helmet laws make kids fatter?
The Orange County Social Services Agency released its 15th annual “Conditions of
read more ... 20 Oct 2009
Inconclusive evidence and more severe injuries
Research for the Transportøkonomisk institutt (TØI)in Norway finds that helmets h
read more ... 5 Aug 2009
Boy asphyxiated when helmet strap caught on clothes line
A six-year-old boy has died in a freak backyard accident involving a clothes line
read more ... 3 Jul 2009
More support for Safety in Numbers
The phenomenon whereby cycling gets safer the more people who cycle has received
read more ... 27 Jun 2009
Danish law proposal defeated
A proposal for a bike helmet law for children under 12 was roundly defeated in th
read more ... 20 Jun 2009