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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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The Dublin hire bike scheme has now clocked up 2 million rentals and it is becoming more popular than ever. The first million rentals took 11 months to achieve and the second million has taken only a further 9 months.
The scheme has proved very safe. Since it started, there have been just two injuries to cyclists using the bikes that have required hospital attention, and both of those people were out of hospital within 24 hours.
The increasing popularity of cycling in Dublin is making cycling in the city safer than ever before. In 1997, 24 cyclists died in Dublin; in 2009 only three. There are many more cyclists now than a decade ago.
Fri 13 May 2011