Should bike shops include a free helmet with every bike they sell?

[Soup890]

To improve awareness for safety. I know it's personal choice (and yes you can quote this sentence) but it would encourage people to think safety

 

[marzjennings]

No.

A free copy of the Highway Code would be better.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Only if they threw it at you as you left the shop after a count of 10

 

[ianrauk]

Cycling is not dangerous.

 

[KneesUp]

Is that 'free' as in 'the bike is £20 more' or 'free' as in 'the bike shop make less profit on the bike and the helmets they no longer sell' or 'free' as in 'made out of materials that cost nothing by machines that cost nothing operated by people who work for nothing, and given to people who will still buy as many helmets as before'

There is no such thing as 'free'

Cycling has a pretty low environmental impact. I can't see giving people helmets they might not use or even need (e.g. people who already own one, people who got one free with their other bike ...) being good for the environment.

Sharing the road with big, heavy fast moving machinery often operated my myopic imbeciles makes me think about safety. I wear a helmet in case I make a mistake and lady luck forgets about me at the same moment.

 

[roadrash]

 

[Cuchilo]

If you where offered a free helmet would you take it even if you didn't want it ?

 

[Fab Foodie]

To improve awareness for safety. I know it's personal choice (and yes you can quote this sentence) but it would encourage people to think safety

No.
Cycling's not dangerous ... as some wise blueman said ....

 

[smokeysmoo]

As a helmet wearer of many years standing I'd have to say................NO!

 

[snorri]

but it would encourage people to think safety

Or it could encourage people to cycle recklessly, believing the headgear would provide a degree of invincibility.

 

[vorsprung]

Free love should be included. No, mandatory

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Nothing in life is free - if something should be included in a sale of a new bike, imo this should be a free complementary half hour demonstration on how to properly inflate tyres/ change inner tubes.

 

[Cuchilo]

Nothing in life is free - if something should be included in a sale of a new bike, imo this should be a free complementary half hour demonstration on how to properly inflate tyres/ change inner tubes.

My Dad showed me that when I was 6

 

[Pat "5mph"]

My Dad showed me that when I was 6

I did not have a bike till I was 46

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Why not save up all the money that would be used for these helmets and use it to fund some form of road law enforcement.
It would improve awareness of consequences.
That would be safer.