The safety organisation VeiligheidNL estimates that 5,000 fatbike riders are treated in A&E [ i.e Accident & Emergency] departments each year, on the basis of a recent sample of hospitals. “And we also see that especially these young people aged from 12 to 15 have the most accidents,” said the spokesperson Tom de Beus.
Now Amsterdam’s head of transport, Melanie van der Horst, has said “unorthodox measures” are needed and has announced that she will ban these heavy electric bikes from city parks, starting in the Vondelpark. Like the city of Enschede, which is also drawing up a city centre ban, she is acting on a stream of requests “begging me to ban the fatbikes”.
No we don’t need helmets. Cars must be kicked out of the bicycle’s areas instead. Fuck that carbrained propaganda.
It was not a car that made me slip on an invisible icy spot on a bridge and bang my head against the railing, resulting in a concussion. Without a helmet I’d be dead. Or worse.
Wear a fucking helmet.
No thanks. I’m not gonna help the car lobby create arguments to limit our freedom and shove off the ‘guilt’ of accidents on us.
This reads like you fell on your head without wearing a helmet a few times too often.
Never fell, the single most common cause of bicycle accidents are car drivers – especially drunk ones who speed. You ain’t gonna protect against that with a helmet.