On one of the helmet threads, training and bike maintenance has been excluded as an alternative to helmet use in reducing risk to cyclists.
Riding a bike is a complex task, and wearing a helmet may reduce injury, but is it really bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Preventing accidents is a basic ethos of any activity with protective euipment as a last, not first resort?
My personal feeling is that riding a well maintained bike in a responsible manner has an equal if not greater contribution to cyclist safety as helmets.
A holistic approach in which training, experience, a safe and well maintained bike are as (if not more) important.
What is the panel's opinion. Should we be looking at reducing risk by a single intervention such as helmets or a holistic approach to reducing risk altogether?
Riding a bike is a complex task, and wearing a helmet may reduce injury, but is it really bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Preventing accidents is a basic ethos of any activity with protective euipment as a last, not first resort?
My personal feeling is that riding a well maintained bike in a responsible manner has an equal if not greater contribution to cyclist safety as helmets.
A holistic approach in which training, experience, a safe and well maintained bike are as (if not more) important.
What is the panel's opinion. Should we be looking at reducing risk by a single intervention such as helmets or a holistic approach to reducing risk altogether?