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No, I think just America. Europe isn't so safety crazed. For instance, it's common for Europeans not to wear bicycle helmets. That doesn't hold for the UK. Ma
by cs02rm0 6y ago
No, I think just America. Europe isn't so safety crazed.
For instance, it's common for Europeans not to wear bicycle helmets.
That doesn't hold for the UK. Maybe it's spreading.
- Thlom 6y agoIt's common to ride without a helmet in countries where cycling is a normal activity. Basically Netherlands, Denmark, parts of Belgium, Germany and France. Where cycling is mostly a leisure activity on the weekends and for enthusiasts, helmet usage is much higher.
- toyg 6y agoI never considered the possibility of wearing a helmet on a bike in non-competitive settings in Italy. Only after I moved to the UK (and had children), did I start using it regularly. To this day I’m not sure whether it’s compulsory or not, but most people have it, so...
- pja 6y agoIt's not compulsory in the UK to wear cycle helmets. There has been the occasional attempt to pass such a law in the past, but none were successful. Cyclist organisations are very averse to helmet laws, seeing them as marking cycling out as some unusually dangerous activity, which in turn has an inevitable negative effect on cyclist numbers.