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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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Since 2020-08-29 this website is an archive, to preserve links. Not much has been added since about 2016. Other sites which are currently active include http://www.cycle-helmets.com/ and https://www.freestylecyclists.org/ both Australian based but with some international content. Cutting through the controversy about helmet effectiveness Bias in older research, no net benefit from helmets in later studies Alberta law halves children's cycling but more than doubles the risk of injury Why are Dutch cyclists more likely to be injured if they wear helmets? Alcohol: obscuring the outcomes of helmet research? Bike hire schemes revisited The health benefits of cycling More information added on health benefits versus risks, citing latest research. Also our commentary on Health on the Move 2, a landmark report on transport and health that strongly promotes cycling as a low-risk activity that could do much to enhance public health. What is the relative risk of head injury when cycling compared with other everyday activities? UK law would lead to 253 more deaths according to assessment using WHO HEAT tool, while Government research finds no reliable evidence of helmet benefit. Recent additions and changes to cyclehelmets.org
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Risk and cycling
Is cycling risky? How does it compare with other activities? How common is head injury? Safety in Numbers.
Contradictory evidence about cycle helmets
Ambitious claims are made for cycle helmets, but how do they perform in the real world?
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"A helmet saved my life!"
A common claim by helmet wearers, but is the truth so simple?
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Helmet laws
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Why helmets don't prevent 85% of head injuries
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