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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 Swiss Government has decisively thrown out a proposal to make it mandatory for children to wear bicycle helmets.
As part of a debate over road law revisions, MPs in the National Council voted 136 to 46 against the requirement for kids aged 14 and under. There was opposition from the entire political spectrum, with calls that the requirement would be counterproductive and something that should rely on personal responsibility.
The proposal then went back to the Council of States, which had previously supported a law. This time, however, the strength of the opposition was noted. The wider package of new laws was approved without any requirement to make cycle helmets compulsory.
Tue 12 Jun 2012
