It'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 or

It'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.