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To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Sep 30, 2012.

  1. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Ok, two questions for my Yankee friends

    1) Are there cities or states that have mandatory bike helmet laws?
    2) What's the best city in the US for cyclists? My gut tells me Portland

    We (Toronto) have a mandatory helmet law for anyone under 18 (16, maybe)
     
  2. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    In the history of human skulls-vs-concrete roadway collisions, the score currently stands at Concrete Roadways 289,345,326,437, Human Skulls 6.
     
  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Haven't been there, but I think this has to be the answer.
     
  4. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    I'm all for whatever discourages people from riding bicycles in the middle of the fucking road. Put on a helmet, don't put on a helmet, just stay in your damn lane/on the sidewalk.
     
  5. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Portland is definitely the city whose bicyclists annoy the bejesus out of motorists the most. Never seen another place where cyclists are so happy to ride down the middle of the street and so oblivious to the fact that a one-ton piece of machinery that is obeying all laws of traffic could nonetheless run them over.
     
  6. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    It's the heroin.
     
  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    It's a sidewalk, not a sideride.
     
  8. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Some, not many.

    http://www.helmets.org/mandator.htm
     
  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    And Portland finished second in a recent ranking of bike-friendly cities.

    http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/bicyclings-top-50
     
  10. J-School Blue

    J-School Blue Member

    In cities that have been engineered to be cyclist-friendly I can see this argument, but this applies to...what? Zero U.S. cities?

    I see bicyclists pretty frequently in traffic and it seems like suicide to ride around here (and I live in Tempe, which apparently made the list) without a helmet. I see a lot of people doing it, mind, and it makes me cringe.
     
  11. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    And if there's no bike lane, you're an idiot to ride in the road.
     
  12. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Depends on the road.
     
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