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 Helmets - Frequently Asked Questions                            

A comprehensive and up to date list of questions and answers on the pros and cons of cycle helmets is to be found at the website of the Ontario organisation: The Vehicular Cyclist (formerly: The Ontario Coalition for Better Cycling).

The Vehicular Cyclist

Cycling Health is not opposed to the use of helmets, but merely to the element of compulsion. Our position is that individuals should have the right to choose whether or not to use a helmet, without interference by Governments. We believe that the role of Government should be limited to advising the public, without bias, of the pros and cons of helmet use.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man” George Bernard Shaw