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Volvo Netherlands is issuing schoolchildren with cycle helmets. Dear Volvo, you are issuing children with equipment to protect against what, precisely? It isn’t the effects of crashing into cars, is it? Aha, you produce those cars, don’t you! Tell me, once you’ve got all the children wearing big orange headwear, will you move onto the [...]

When you need a policeman but can’t find one, where’s he likely to be? Stopping cyclists to evangelise the wearing of helmets, or so it seems if you live in Edinburgh. Recently they stopped Andrew Burns, the chief of Labour on Edinburgh City Concil, who wasn’t too happy about it. (Edinburgh Evening news) Later, he [...]

A couple of weeks ago, this story hit the Lancashire Evening Press, the Daily Express and road.cc. Some postmen are facing the sack for doing their rounds without cycle helmets – those vital pieces of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). This is an ill-researched, ill thought-out piece of totalitarianism by the Royal Mail, and one might [...]