Welcome

Welcome to nohelmetlaw.org.uk, a site which exists to promote one of the most controversial ideas in modern Britain: that cycling is a safe and healthy activity.

How can I help you?

Maybe you have a question in mind?  Perhaps you heard some really vivid soundbyte?

Or maybe you are here to find something out:

Perhaps we could start with roughly where you stand on the issue right now:

If you click the link that most closely approximates to your position you should find some information which is addressed mainly to you.  Or maybe you haven't yet formed a view and are reading up first?  That's good, by the way.

Topics

Resources

Quality polemic

Why care?

I believe that few things in life are entirely straightforward.  Admittedly when I was younger I was prone to certainty, but age and experience has pretty much cured me of that.  I now see the wisdom of Bertrand Russell's saying: "The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser men so full of doubts."  Some people have decided that cycling is dangerous, and that cycle helmets are the way to fix this, and in some cases the reasoning has gone the other way, trying to prove cycling is dangerous in order to boost cycle helmets, but the more I read about it the more convinced I become that the evidence is weak, conflicting and often equivocal.

One of the most important things to know about helmet laws is that they have already been tried and we know they do not work - in fact they sometimes make things worse.  This is an amazingly difficult concept to get across.  I have a kind of walk-through tour of why they fail, but I'd encourage you first to look at the links above.

Finally, you might have decided to take some action based on what you know or have read:

Thanks for visiting, and remember:

open-quote To every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong   close-quote    H. L. Mencken


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