I'm also a Dutchy and I'd like to clear something up. Biking in the Netherlands is not like biking almost anywhere in any other country. There are separate bike

I'm also a Dutchy and I'd like to clear something up. Biking in the Netherlands is not like biking almost anywhere in any other country. There are separate bike paths everywhere, cars drive slower in areas where bikes are also allowed. Bikes are first-class vehicles that cars often have to give the right of way for. People bike a lot slower at 7 to 10 mph. Drivers are accustomed to bikes being everywhere. We've also been biking our entire lives. You can see kids from the age of 4 participating in normal traffic (under parental supervision naturally). That's how safe biking in the Netherlands feels: parents let their 4 year olds bike on the same road (not a separated bike path) as cars. This is why, for Dutch people, wearing a helmet during normal daily biking instinctively feels like nonsense. And I don't know a single person from another country that, after having lived here for a bit longer, still wears their helmets here. I don't know of a single helmet study that takes such conditions into account. It's always "this many people died", but never do they mention if they were biking to the local supermarket or going 20 mph downhill in the forest on their mountainbikes without a helmet. I believe if you want to get people biking, you should invest in making biking feel as safe as it feels in the Netherlands. In the meantime, wear helmets.