I always wear a bike helmet but it seems inappropriate and invasive for cops to be pulling over cyclists to lecture them about their own safety.
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Wear a helmet, kids! Doesn't matter if you're riding an e-bike, a motorcycle, an e-scooter... if you're sharing the road with cars, vans, trolleys.. and your head is what's going to take the hit in case of an accident, wear a fucking helmet! (Some hi-viz, or light saturated colours, or anything that makes you more visible and stand out won't hurt either)
Or don't, idk, given the state of the world I think Darwin could use a bit of help, so if you don't feel like messing your hair, or you find it a bit uncomfortable, you do you. Thanks for the organs, btw.
Believe it or not, the helmet debate continues to rage on to this day (amongst cyclists anyways) with both sides making compelling arguments.
I think for those in the anti-helmet crowd, their strongest arguments are that helmets may disincentivize people from riding, and that resources and focus is better spent on improving infrastructure and lowering speed limits.
As for me, I've gotten a concussion even while wearing a helmet and I hate to think what the outcome would have been if I weren't in the pro-helmet crowd.
I wasn't talking really about the law, as long as they don't ban helmets I don't care. The anti-helmets might have a point tho, if the helmets are what's keeping these idiots from getting out of the car and onto a(n e-)bike just let them ride without it, it's a win-win-win situation and spending resources trying to avoid it doesn't seem very smart. In the other hand, where I live is the other way around, illegal for motorbikes and mopeds but legal for bikes and scooters, but we have a public health system and I think if everyone is gonna have to pay for either brain surgery or a pack of ibuprofen a dumb personal decision can become a collective burden, so mandating helmets can make more sense. Idrk.
Glad you listened to the calls of brain to protect it! Helmets are cool.
I was just shopping for one and was shocked about the price. Thought about it and realized, this is literally my brain, everything who is me and about me. Out of everything that I can cheap out on, this is not one of them.
If you need help picking out a good one Virginia tech does a bunch of testing and publishes the results here: https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/
Seems stupid not to wear a helmet on either IMO, but it's a weird discrepancy.
IMO its because Ebikes are an easy target for new laws and regulations.
Motorcycles you'll get a bunch of angry boomer Harley riders yelling at local politicians about freedom
Exactly, laws for ebikes don't really anger large groups.
Do ebikes require a special license like motorcycles do? Regardless of what you think of helmet laws, motorcycle riders have to prove a basic level of competency that isn't required for ebikes AFAIK.