Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons

Re:Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safet... by gorgoiler on Sunday May 22, 2022 @01:30PM (#31470618)

With that level of violence it is the same scenario and the same outcome for a car.

If we insist that cyclists protect themselves against multiple tonnes of kinetic energy impact, we should insist on the same protection for car drivers.

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Re:Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safet... by GVIrish on Sunday May 22, 2022 @03:10PM (#31471627)

We already do. Crash safety standards, seatbelts, and mandatory air bags dramatically decrease injury and death in crashes, and numerous other safety mandates reduce the chance of a crash in the first place.

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Re:Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safet... by gorgoiler on Sunday May 22, 2022 @03:22PM (#31471738)

Thanks for the reply. I hadn’t thought of airbags-as-helmet-substitutes in that way.

Are helmets the bicycle equivalent of air bags then? Isn’t that quite a third rate equivalent?

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