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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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Some neurosurgeons have been keen advocates of cycle helmet wearing and have sometimes campaigned for helmet laws. On the other hand, other neurosurgeons have testified on oath that they believe that cycle helmets have little potential for protecting against serious head injury.
This conflict of attitudes towards helmets is reflected in a survey of neurosurgeons in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 465 neurosurgeons returned questionnaires that asked them about their own helmet wearing habits when they cycle. Only 49.7 percent said that they wore a helmet. This compares with 44.5% of a control group comprising members of the public with no neurosurgical or trauma experience.
The wearing of helmets by children reflects the habits of the parents. Only half of neurosurgeons' children wear helmets when cycling.
In response to a question about compulsory helmet use, one-half of neurosurgeons are in support and the other half opposed.
Mon 4 Jul 2011