helmets for pushbikes :-)

Heard an interesting item on ABC radio re compulsory helmets for
pushbikes. The statistics show a reduction for head injuries since the
compulsion to wear helmets BUT it is alleged that this is because the
number of cyclists has actually declined since the introduction of the
law. Anyone else know of this ?
Isaac.

 

Yup!

regards,
CrazyCam

 

No need 2 go to into so much detail. A brief answer would have been OK.
Isaac

 

I heard on the ABC a week or two ago, that pushbike sales are the highest
they've ever been.
Who's telling fibs?

 

And here's a link:

http://www.bikeoz.com/news.php/newsserial/39/command/display

 

And another:

http://www.bikeoz.com/news.php/newsserial/45/command/display

Sales increased 90% in 7 years.

 

I landed on my head and broke my bike helemt the other day. Wish I was
wearing an arse helemt as well.......

Andrew SV1000s

 

They make those?

GB

 

<bites tongue>

Clem! you want this one?

 

So helmets don't help? I don't get where you're headed...

 

I reckon car drivers should wear helmets. Seriously...Cars should also be
stripped of stereos and glass, have mobile phone jamming devices fitted and
no GPS allowed.

 

Amen.

Don't forget the steering wheel spike.

Moike

 

I had no idea how widespread GPS use had become until a friend of mine
last week admitted that she used a GPS to drive 2 blocks in Hobart.
Admittedly she is unfamiliar with Hobart and I've been in the car when
she is driving and she has no sense of direction at all. But two
blocks?

We were then talking about boats and light aircraft and I explained
that I did my flying training before GPSs were around (****,
calculators were too new and not allowed) and she found this hard to
believe. Kids these days.

I've started calling her Crunchie, because she is blonde on the inside
.. . .

 

.....and you would save about 1000 Australian lives per year!

 

the anit-helmet lobby

bunch of cocksockers...."but its my head" in a whiny petulant voice

"yes you selfish prick, be on burden on the medical system and tie up a bed,
all coz you are too cool to wear a helmet"

................as the ticket gets written ........

 

Except people with nasty injuries who ARE wearing a helmet tend to survive
and cost the taxpayer more than helmetless people who just quietly die.

 

Ok.I'll simplify. The number of bike sales last year has no connection
with the statement that after the introduction of bike helmet laws
people rode less often and therefore had less accidents.

paulh

 

But it's my head, tie up a bed, when I could be dead?

 

We should sent Corks around the hospitals. "Why tie up that bed, you
selfish prick! Come out of that coma with your hands up!"

-----sharks

 

"STOP!, Don't move!"