Young Australian bicycle-user standing up for civil liberties

Come Monday 29th August, Baby no. 2 will head to a Sydney court to mention her matter for the crime of riding a bicycle without a helmet.

She too believes that civil liberties ought not to be so easily waived, and she too believes that an evidence based approach should always have primacy over commercial faith-based ones.

The obsolescent Australian mandatory bicycle helmet laws have done nothing for us in terms of health, safety, transport, congestion or tourism...

...& in terms of silliness, could even be said to rival the UK legislative prohibition of eating of Mince Pies on Christmas Day - though least the Brits recognise how daft that ban is!!!!!

Let me show you Sydney

Yesterday with Baby no. 1 et notre amie de Biarritz, we explored 'key' city spots;

♥ commencing with cafe lattes at Luxe to dodge playful Sydney shower

♥ coasting down Glebe Point Road dappled in beautiful winter sun with freshly washed look

♥ mozzying around Black Wattle Bay, Pirrama, the wharves, Darling Harbour, Sydney Theatre Company, the Rocks

♥ lunching at Circular Quay's Oyster Bar

♥ returning home via Macquarie Street, Hyde Park, College Street, Oxford Street, Taylor Square

♥ with quick little stop at Bourke Street Bakery for ginger brulee and coffee

...& brilliantly, our 'heaven on bicycles' was blissfully enhanced by friendly accommodating Sydney motorists!

Aaaahh oui! - la vie est belle!!!!

85,000 missed 'helmet' opportunities

(The '85,000')


(The 'watering-hole')


(The team)


(The lunch-spot)


(The ubiquitous 'bicycle-with-hint-of-helmet' display)


(The moment)


Stands to aussie reason that today's largest 'fun-run' ever will have to be a 'helmeted' one in the future for sure!

...surely (?)

The Nation that stopped being itself

And so it was in a faraway land called Oz, they continued upon their quest for the Total Safety Elixir with strategies that could only ever provide delusion & disappointment...

"Mandatory ski helmets coming to an Aussie Resort near you next season!"

WTF! I want to live in a 'grown-up' country' that steers clear of hysteria & doctors when making policy decisions!

Whilst Baby no. 1 might like to don a helmet on occasion, I certainly would not & I cannot for the life of me see why I should be coralled into a dress code that benefits corporations & defence contractors in the name of safety and so-called common sense grrrr!

Illegal 'aussie' wind in hair

(Photos: Rasmus Fielder, Melbourne)


Legally protesting the lack of legal opportunity for wind in hair whilst illegally enjoying the illegal opportunity anyway!!!

Com’on, aussie, com’on com’on

– Israel’s done it – what’s keeping us?

False, misleading & unsubstantiated: bicycle helmet laws

Bicycle helmets in Australia are regulated for safety but we all know that nothing can guarantee that they actually work. We also all know that our corporate watchdog, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), is supposed to prevent any unsubstantiated claims or implications that products boast about in terms of protection or prevention of serious injury if they can't actually provide them.

Therefore it is at precisely this juncture that our ridiculous helmet laws should have been revealed for what they are by now - false, misleading & unsubstantiated - instead of coasting on the 'do nothing' safety protection policy of the lat 20 years.

'Blind Freddy' can see that under the deliberate guise of 'distraction', bicycle helmet laws have cunningly diverted us away from the only effective protective formula around:

"SAFETY IN NUMBERS"

- which translated into 'strine' is:

"ONYA BIKES, MOWTRISTS"

Bicycle helmet laws slammed by UK doctors

In short according to BMJ survey, bicycle helmet law is insupportable stupidity...

...we are their case in point!