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  • The surprising impact of helmets on safety

    Abstract Contrary to popular belief, helmets main impact on safety has not been the protection they provide, but the increased in the risk of accident associated with them. Helmets protect, but not enough to compensate for the increased risk of accident. Although the motivation for wearing a bicycle helmet is to reduce the risk of death &…

  • Misguided doctors or marketing agents?

    Abstract In the 1980′s, Bell, a helmet manufacturer, was keen to expand the market for bicycle helmets, its most profitable product. It approached the Snell foundation and offered funding for research on bicycle helmets. The Snell foundation chose avid helmet lobbyists to conduct this “research”. The helmet lobbyists initial “research” claimed that helmets reduce 85% of…

  • My helmet saved my life!

    Abstract After the helmet law, many cyclists insisted that their helmets had saved them. Yet cycling injuries tripled. Why? Because helmets increase the risk of accidents.  What the data tells us Here are some stats on cycling death & serious injury for children in NSW, before and after the helmet law. Two years after the…

  • Trying to deny that helmets can aggravate brain injury

    Abstract Several studies have reported that bicycle helmets can increase rotational acceleration. Rotational acceleration is the primary cause of brain injury. The Australian government commissioned a study to defend its controversial helmet law. The study set up unrealistic conditions fostering low rotational acceleration. The study claims that helmets do not increase brain injury. This is deceitful.…

  • Helmet believers doubtful after increase in injuries

    A helmet advocate researched Canadian provinces with a bicycle helmet law. What he found shocked him. Provinces with a helmet law experienced relatively more injuries. “A study that compared six-year periods on either side of the helmet laws in the four provinces that have them calculated a reduction in fatalities of 37 per cent and a reduction in…

  • Do helmets really protect racing cyclists?

    Most sport cyclists wear a helmet as it is “obvious” it protects.  Does it? Since mandatory helmets, deaths of professional cyclists while racing have doubled: “The helmet rule for professional cyclists was brought by the UCI in 2003 following the death of Andrei Kivlev during the Paris-Nice race. Since then deaths of professional cyclists while racing have…

  • Helmet Links

    A helmet saved my life! Contradictory evidence about the effectiveness of cycle helmets CTC position on Helmets Meta-analysis of bicycle helmet efficacy The efficacy of bicycle helmets against brain injury The effectiveness of cycle helmets Cycle Helmets and Road Casualties in the UK 1987 FORS report reporting bicycle helmets have high rotational acceleration

  • Review of Evidence of the Efficacy of Helmets for Cyclists

    Introduction That the wearing of a helmet can protect cyclists from head injury might seem obvious. Measurements in laboratories have shown that helmets have the potential to do this, but, as Davis (1993) noted, the issue is what happens when the devices promoted by such research are used and adapted by real people. Research into…