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Why I Am Opposed to Mandatory Helmet Laws
This is an article from Ken Kifer's biking web pages. "Mandatory helmet laws for bicyclists, although advocated by many physicians, medical researchers, helmet designers, and cyclists, do not promote the public health." A helpful summary of the arguments for and against mandatory bicylce helmet laws.

cyclehelmets.org
Cyclehelmets.org is the website of an international coalition of people with a special interest in cycling and cycle helmets.

Why a bicycle helmet law would be absurd (45 kB rtf file)
by Patrick Gunkel

European Cyclists Federation
Improving bicycle safety without making helmet-use compulsory.
The European Cyclists' Federation believes that, instead of making it compulsory for cyclists to wear helmets, the authorities should concentrate on preventing accidents. Promoting the wearing of helmets by cyclists is not an effective way of improving safety for cyclists.

cycle-helmets.com
Australia was the first country in the world to impose uniform national mandatory bicycle helmet legislation, beginning in 1990.

Objective analysis of the results in Western Australia shows the legislation has:

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