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I'm not sure if there is a big cultural divided regarding wearing helmets for safety reasons. Anecdotally it's most strongly driven by "competition" with cars:
by hobofan 6y ago
I'm not sure if there is a big cultural divided regarding wearing helmets for safety reasons.
Anecdotally it's most strongly driven by "competition" with cars:
- Small city -> Not that much traffic -> No helments
- Big city with lacking bike infrastructure/no strong biking culture -> A lot of close encounters with cars -> Helmets
- Big city with established biking culture -> No helmets
- IncRnd 6y agoI think you have an inherent bias in your examples. There are bike riders outside of cities.
- hobofan 6y agoIf you mean rural travel between small cities/towns, that's what I head in mind too with the first example (as that's the setting I grew up in). If you mean sport biking (race, mountainbike, long distance), then you are right that I didn't consider those.