{"id":655,"date":"2010-12-22T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2010\/12\/22\/the-great-helmet-debate\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T16:00:00","slug":"the-great-helmet-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/22\/the-great-helmet-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Helmet Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_9-coSRlRBkE\/TREYJCy46pI\/AAAAAAAAAY8\/TCJsD28k5I4\/s1600\/wi.madison.activestreet3-large.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_9-coSRlRBkE\/TREYJCy46pI\/AAAAAAAAAY8\/TCJsD28k5I4\/s320\/wi.madison.activestreet3-large.jpg\" width=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>pedbikeimages.org\/Dan Burden<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Do you wear a helmet when you ride? Should you wear a helmet when you ride? Should the government poke its nose in with helmet laws? Do helmets really improve safety or, more importantly, crash survival?<\/p>\n<p>The recent Grist article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-12-20-helmet-wars-a-gripping-account-of-the-great-bicycle-helmet-campa\">Helmet Wars: A gripping account of the great bicycle helmet campaigns<\/a>&#8221; begins to explore some of the sides of this issue, and provides a number of links to excellent resources on both sides. Check it out, and tell us where you land on the helmet issue.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you think bicyclists should or shouldn&#8217;t wear helmets, make sure to follow the law in your area. Washington has spotty mandatory helmet laws, which vary by region. Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsdot.wa.gov\/bike\/helmets.htm\">this WSDOT list<\/a> if you aren&#8217;t sure whether you&#8217;re in a mandatory helmet region or not. And if helmets strike you as oh-so-uncool, you can always follow <a href=\"http:\/\/momentumplanet.com\/articles\/diy-project-helmet-hairdos-in-ten-minutes\">Momentum Magazine<\/a>&#8216;s instructions for how to turn your helmet into two different kinds of mohawks (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Helmet-Mohawks-in-10-Minutes\/step2\/The-Cable-Tie-Helmet-Hairdo\/\">zip tie<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Helmet-Mohawks-in-10-Minutes\/\">fuzzy<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pedbikeimages.org\/Dan Burden Do you wear a helmet when you ride? 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