the FACTS:
>studies PROVE that helmet laws DISCOURAGE bicycle users.
>wearing a helmet does NOT reduce the rate of head injuries (magic hat fallacy)
>drivers behave MORE erratically and aggressively around bicyclists wearing helmets, because they are perceived as less vurrnerable
HELMETFAGS BTFO
>no sources
OP is a fag
wsj.com
howiechong.com
also talk to the guys over at
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new zealand's helmet laws did NOTHING for head injury rates, they were dropping slowly already for many years
Unless you live in a socialist hell hole only children are required to wear helmets
>canada
Oh
Bicycle riders belong on bicycle tracks, not roads.
Helmet laws are just a hand-out for helmet manufacturers, and one more hoop to jump through for people just trying to make good decisions about transportation. The real way to make cycling safe is by creating a CRITICAL MASS of them.
YES - let's build bicycle trails everywhere so that you don't need a car to get around.
FREE ENERGY
HEALTHIER CITIZENS
LESS CARS
i've never understood helmet laws. you don't wear a helmet walking down the street, you don't wear a helmet taking a bath, etc. although i'm sure it would save a few lives if people did. there would literally be riots in the streets if a helmet law was ever instated in the netherlands.
I bet your gay ass countries won't even implement feminist snow plowing, which prioritizes pedestrian and bicycle tracks over roads
>a healthy thin white person
OY VEY WE GODDA STOP DIS!! REMOVE DA INSURANCE AND HELMETS SO DEY DIE IN MY CROOKED HOSPITAL!!
The tracks are usually just around ovals, m8, not trails. Just asphalt around an oval.
>wear a helmet walking down the street, you don't wear a helmet taking a bath, etc
In any of these activities, you aren't traveling at velocities where should you fall or have an accident, you'll crack your fucking noggin.
Maybe if you didn't have a bunch of retards with brain damage from not wearing bicycle helmets in the Netherlands, Geert would have won.
Every kid in our country over the age of six can ride a bike. Every adult can ride it blackout drunk or high as fuck without falling. Get on our level losers.
Helmets are for pussies
Actually slip and falls in the bathtub crack open thousands of noggins every year.
>studies PROVE that helmet laws DISCOURAGE bicycle users.
For this reason alone, I'm for helmet laws
Get off the fucking road bikefags.
>In any of these activities
both activities are associated with head injury. many people die every year from slipping in the bath or hitting their head on street furniture or curbs after a fall. should they have been wearing a helmet?
You can get a DUI/DWI charge here, in some parts. Bike regulations are left up to the individual cities.
As for helmets it depends on the rider preference. I wear one because I ride over 20mph and it has saved me twice.
That's because you all cycle on these town bikes, at very slow speeds, on designated cycle roads, where the drivers respect cyclists.
I used to live in and cycle around London. Very different. Yes there are some designated cycle "superhighways" (such a fucking stupid name), but a lot of the time you're just cycling on the normal road with all the cars.
I've been nudged by a garbage truck before - only very lightly from behind, while going slowly through traffic lights. Nearly fell off but not quite - but still disconcerting. And people get killed all the time in London from getting hit by trucks.
I didn't used to wear a helmet, but if I moved back to the city (which I might), then I might well use a helmet, because if I got nudged off my bike by a car and my head smacked the concrete, I'd be pretty fucked. Sure, a helmet can't stop many, many types of accidents - most deaths in London involve a truck squeezing a cyclist up against a barrier, or a cyclist going under a truck's wheels. But it can save your head in the event that it smacks on the concrete.
This.
More people die from cycling, because as he said, you're travelling at higher velocities and you're on riding on a contraption that is inherently unstable.
That is hands down the faggiest webm I've ever seen. Holy shit
There are far many more variables behind riding bicycles from vehicle traffic to pedestrian traffic to weather conditions and even wind speed. You can be the most experienced bicyclist in the world and still get clipped by a car speeding by.
If you fall during a bathtub, you're not careful or you're old with a poor sense of balance, or just plain stupid.
The odds of a serious head injury whilst walking are very slim given the velocity at which you are typically traveling.
>check my state for helmet laws
>find article about it where it says they're only required for cyclists under 16
>get to the end of the article
>"There are also some bonuses for obeying the new law. Police officers will hand out gift certificates for a free hamburger at Burger King or McDonald's."
the timeline switch is starting to cause ripples in the past
The thing that kills people who ride bikes is the fact they underestimate their abilities. People don't realize riding a bike as a kid is different than as an adult. Adults are much stronger and ride much faster than any kid can plus there is the weight difference between kids and adults. The only difference is that adults don't have the pliability that kids have so when they crash it usually becomes much worse and even life threatening.
no one is arguing that wearing a helmet isn't safer. the argument is that helmet laws restrict cycling to enthusiasts and prohibit large scale uptake of cycling as a mode of transport. wear a helmet if you like, it just shouldn't be a matter of law, if you have any interest in cycling taking of beyond the lycra road bike crowd.
never knew cycling could be so depressing
I thought the Aussies were the only ones with mandatory helmets?
What state user I may have to move.
>wearing a helmet does NOT reduce the rate of head injuries
I'm a cyclist and can say that helmets have saved my head more than once.
Okay well then yes I agree with you, particularly in the Netherlands, a helmet shouldn't be required
And even here, yeah I probably wouldn't legally require one. I dunno though. I'd consider it. As I say our roads can be pretty dangerous for cycling, much more so than yours I would think.
Why is it depressing? It's a very good way for getting around in the Netherlands. The whole country is flat. Bike paths are literally everywhere - every single road has a bike path. It's a small country so distances of travel are very short. For making these short journeys, a bike is the quickest and easiest way of getting around.
OP for years I've been arguing about motorcycle helmet laws. You're more likely to have an accident with a helmet on, more likely to have a neck or spinal injury with a helmet....
People don't care. Logic and facts don't matter to people, people are idiots. It's all about how it "seems" or how something makes them feel.
Just idiots.
I'm still going to wear mine,i also have protection gloves with hard knuckles on it, elbow pads and hardened soccer like shoes made for bikes.
It's also a good way to have legal protection if you get attacked.
Here in the US your health insurance provider can deny you coverage if you get injured on a bike and not wearing a helmet, it is part of preventative care measures.
Sounds like it's mostly an attitude problem, what you can fix if you feel like it.
Helmets probably still are a good idea in some situation, especially when cycling fast.
stories beat facts especially in the minds of many, Mark Antony vs Brutus
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How exactly is having helmet on more dangerous then not?
