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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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Police on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia deflated the tyres of a bike belonging to a 15-year old boy and made him walk the 3km home as punishment for not wearing a cycle helmet.
Assistant Police Commissioner Ross Barnett said officers who found the boy riding without a helmet at Sippy Downs on Saturday could have handled the situation differently. He said the officers had been trying to avoid fining the boy, and at the time considered it appropriate to order him to deflate his tyres and make his own way home. "But on reflection they probably could have done something a little bit differently," Mr Barnett told ABC Radio.
However, many Queenslanders supported the police action.
Mon 8 Nov 2010