[url= http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/volvo-promotes-cycle-helmets-for-children-26625 ]Swedish car company Volvo have teamed up with the country's top sports protection specialists, POC, to develop a new children's cycle helmet.[/url]
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This from the comments;
This argument always seems to go the same way:A: I think helmets generally protect heads in an accident, and I prefer wearing one.
B: Why do you want to make it COMPULSORY for EVERYONE to wear a helmet?
A: Err... *gives up*
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Does tj hate volvos? I thought he liked mine.
POC have made kiddie helmets for a while in the ski market. Glad they are doing these.
However - most people struggle spending the £20 for a wee Met one with chickens on it... odd.
POC make some of the best designed helmets however from your link
Helmet use is not compulsory in the Netherlands, where town planners prefer to minimise the danger to cyclists from motor vehicles by separating the two. Dutch cycling conditions are some of the safest in the world.
Almost no one in Holland wears helmets but they have much lower rates of head injury than the UK
Almost no one in Holland wears helmets but they have much lower rates of head injury than the UK
Uh huh, and they also have the best cycle provision in society and on the roads than most other countries.
You have to move fast when they are near you - even pedestrians are fair game to the bikes.
Its an intersting one that - the higher the rates of helmet wearing in a county the higher the rates of head injury. Even in the same country as helmet wearing rates increase so does the head injury rate - this has been seen in NZ, Aus and in some states in the USA
A part of the conundrum
Just a branding opportunity.
So, loss making Chinese car company gets into bike helmets. I assume it's an opportunity to make the balance sheet look better.
Do they come with integral helmet torches that are permanently turned on?