Mandatory Helmet Laws & stuff (MHL discussion)
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Mandatory Helmet Laws & stuff (MHL discussion)
Postby im_no_pro » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:02 pm
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby damhooligan » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:09 pm
I wil start .
Helmet use should not be mandatory.
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby }SkOrPn--7 » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:45 pm
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby damhooligan » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:53 pm
here is what a professor say about them mandatory laws..}SkOrPn--7 wrote:My parents took it upon them self so make Helmets Mandatory when I was born that was 50 years ago been wearing it since every day............................
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... site=emailProfessorChrisRissel wrote:I do not advocate for repealing seat-belt legislation, because the evidence is very, very strong that they reduced head injuries in the community.
This is not the case with bicycle helmets. I agree that no one study answers all the questions one might have about the legislation, and my study did not attempt to do this.
I agree helmets offer some protection to the head at an individual level, but the evidence indicates that the effects of legislation are not apparent at the community level over time. A policy that affects the entire community should show effects at that level.
At the time Professor McDermott was with the Victorian Road Trauma Committee there were many serious problems with road injuries, and the desire to improve bicyclist safety was admirable. However, with hindsight, we can see that there were many other strategies and programs that improved the injury rates, but the helmet legislation was a negligible contribution.
At that time we didn't have the enormous problems with obesity, diabetes and renal failure that we do now. We know that helmets represent a barrier to people cycling and the health effects of more people cycling and being active far outweigh the injury.
One final point is about the way we talk about risk. The case-control studies that indicate that cyclists with head injuries admitted to hospital without helmets might have an increased-odds ratio of likelihood of injury of 20 or 30 per cent compared to wearing helmets make the risk seem higher than they really are.
The absolute risk of any individual on a bicycle getting a head injury might be in the order of one in a million, and even doubling the risk (an odds ratio of 2.0) to two in a million, it is still tiny. The known risks of getting overweight or developing diabetes from inactivity are many times more significant that the injury risk.
If helmet legislation was such a good idea, why hasn't the rest of the world followed suit? The fact is that in the countries with high cycling rates, Australia's helmet legislation is a joke.
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby }SkOrPn--7 » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:04 pm
Damhool my comment was below the belt humour it was a surgical decision I had no control over..................damhooligan wrote:here is what a professor say about them mandatory laws..}SkOrPn--7 wrote:My parents took it upon them self so make Helmets Mandatory when I was born that was 50 years ago been wearing it since every day............................
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby damhooligan » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:19 pm
I understand, i was trying to start a serous discussion here, sorry won't happen again..}SkOrPn--7 wrote:Damhool my comment was below the belt humour it was a surgical decision I had no control over..................damhooligan wrote:here is what a professor say about them mandatory laws..}SkOrPn--7 wrote:My parents took it upon them self so make Helmets Mandatory when I was born that was 50 years ago been wearing it since every day............................
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Postby }SkOrPn--7 » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:28 pm
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby damhooligan » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:36 pm
nah it's ok i love humor....}SkOrPn--7 wrote:Don't be sorry Damhool it's cool............ IDGARA about helmet discussions so I was simply placing some of my poor humour into a thread I don't care about so it's me that needs to keep out allowing folks to continue with the pages of dribble.
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby open roader » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:44 pm
BUT
I also think people should take responsibilty for thier own actions - I don't want to see any more 'work' for the legal fraternity
I also want to see Australia's capital cities (and others) having successful on street rental bike cultures - mandatory helmet laws are a major hindrance to the uptake by tourists and other visitors to CBD areas who want to hire a bike on impulse.
I'm so indoctriated in helmet wearing now that I reckon I'd feel vulnerable on my bike/s without one..........
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby Spork! » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:45 pm
Hmmm....
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby mikesbytes » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:52 pm
I've ridden off and on with Chris over the last few years and I've never seen him ride a bike without a helmet on.damhooligan wrote:here is what a professor say about them mandatory laws..This is what Chris Rissel said earlier this year after trying to hold my wheel on the mad mile;ProfessorChrisRissel wrote:I do not advocate for repealing seat-belt legislation, because the evidence is very, very strong that they reduced head injuries in the community.
This is not the case with bicycle helmets.....ProfessorChrisRissel wrote:Boy can you sprint Mike
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby il padrone » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:57 pm
Well of course. I don't know him but he's a Professor and I'm sure is law-abiding. As it's been the law for 20 years you'd kind of expect that he does wear a helmet.mikesbytes wrote:I've ridden off and on with Chris over the last few years and I've never seen him ride a bike without a helmet on.
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby Zynster » Fri Aug 20, 2010 7:40 pm
I can't understand people who are pro-helmet laws though. A dead cyclist doesn't cost the gov as much as one who survived cause he was wearing a helmet. I'm all for Darwinian evolution doing it's job.
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby damonik » Fri Aug 20, 2010 7:41 pm
Stop looking at me like that, they're wearing helmet, it's topical!
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby Kalgrm » Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:34 pm
1 - Helmets protect the head during a fall and thus make riding safer.
2 - Helmets are a barrier which deters people from riding, and since cycling is good for general health, mandatory helmet laws are bad for people in general.
3 - Helmet threads make people angry.
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby Mulger bill » Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:38 pm
I would request that since this is serious thread for serious posters that only serious posts be posted, seriously.
Also, I doubt that many of the mod squad will spend much time here, therefore any participants should kindly self moderate and if anything should slip through that participants notify the moderators by means of the "report post" button.
Finally, who thinks this thread should be stickied?
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby Baldy » Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:13 pm
[flameproof helmet on]Kalgrm wrote: 2 - Helmets are a barrier which deters people from riding, and since cycling is good for general health, mandatory helmet laws are bad for people in general.
Is that a chicken or the egg kinda deal? What came first, the diabetes or the acquired brain injury.
I think the only way that argument would make sense would be if riding a bike was the only possible form of exercise available to the people who dont like wearing a helmet.
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby whitey » Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:14 pm
Oh yeah, I dont have an issue with helmets being mandatory. They keeps the brains in when you fall over. Massive win IMO.
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby drubie » Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:40 pm
How about this one? It has a safety light!
but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby msn » Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:46 pm
Fixed it for you ShaunMulger bill wrote:[Compulsory mod helmet]I'm ......
....stickied?
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby rustguard » Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:37 pm
you imply in this statement that cycling is only for exerciseBaldy wrote:I think the only way that argument would make sense would be if riding a bike was the only possible form of exercise available to the people who dont like wearing a helmet.
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Re: The one (and only) HELMET THREAD
Postby rustguard » Sat Aug 21, 2010 12:10 am
well if you left out the word primarily it would be no worse but as it stands it is worse.The Womble wrote:No worse than some implying that cycling is limited primarily to commuting
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