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https://cyclingtips.com/2018/11/commentary-why-i-stopped-wearing-a-bike-helmet/ "The loudest voices in that latter group have a consistent tactic to try to marginalize the pleas of cyclists, and helmets have sadly become part of that conversation. In 2018, riding without a helmet has become the...

Here's a 2020 article- Berliners where a helmet around 20% of the time.... but I love how Forbes feels the need to add "but wearing them saves lives" https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyamohn/2021/12/29/in-european-cities-bicycle-helmet-use-differs-but-wearing-them-saves-lives/?sh=7a7f09a0436d

It took me a full to minutes to find that interesting quote. You'd think you'd already have your own by now. But in the meantime, here's getty images of berlin bicycle riders... https://www.gettyimages.in/photos/berlin-bike It's a sea of helmets.

I was responding to "Bikers with helmets have more accidents because more bikers wear helmets." But if that was true, Amsterdam would have more accidents. They don't. Why? Because they see cycling as a norm, and we don't. So it's not the helmet that reduces accidents, it is infrastructure.

Oh, so this article that states "Helmets are not compulsory in Germany and only 15 percent of cyclists wear them." is simply wrong- the author must not know that "all German cyclists wear helmets."...

Because it's a commercial.

But there are more cyclists in Amsterdam and they have lower collisions.

You really think that a little piece of styrofoam is improving odds? The safety test for a bicycle helmet is to drop it and see what happens. So a helmet only protects yourself from when you fall down. The number of drivers who sustain brain injuries are higher in proportion than cyclists...

If a worker was expecting rogue beams or electricity they'd be required to wear appropriate protection. Here the issue is not rogue beams or electricity but distracted speeding drivers who kill 6,000 pedestrians and cyclists every year in the US, in areas that lack even a modicum of...

Drivers and journalists think this exact thing. Headline: "Cyclist without helmet crushed by 18 wheeler". Like that piece of styrofoam would have done anything to protect a cyclist from a multi-ton big truck. But it's included in the article everytime, the police include it in their report...

I'm not disagreeing or defending anything here, but this comment is confusing. I just bought a bike that had it and I originally wanted the Rohloff but then I would have had to wait and I needed a bike ASAP. I'm not going to die on your hill because you want to make it seem like that's the...

But a majority of people outside bike forums do think helmets protect against everything. In fact, drivers tend to drive more recklessly when a cyclist they pass is wearing a helmet. PS: I always wear one. I'm not saying don't. But I am saying that a majority of injuries in the US occur...

Yeah, this is not a problem or nuisance. You don't start off in the bottom gear and you aren't really hitting the highest gear in 2 blocks and then stopping. Maybe if you are going past block 2 and you know you are staying at that speed for more blocks. In a 2 block stop/go you aren't getting...

It's actually a proven argument. Absurdity is ignoring the fact that car drivers get more brain injuries than cyclists do and yet we obsess over the cyclists.... and cyclists buy into it. Will you now be arguing it is absurd not to have drivers where helmets?

@pushkar and everyone - questions for you: So a few things kind of happened at once and I'm going to work on it this weekend, but thought I'd share to get any advice and be sure I'm not overlooking any problems. I could maintain just about everything on an analog bike unless I needed special...