I LOVE that video! I've watched it a bunch of times, and there's so much to love in it: the nice clothes, the Dutch bikes, the relative quiet of the commute, the simple, sort of businesslike riding...and of course the fantastic infrastructure.
They don't wear helmets in the Netherlands (or Denmark for that matter) because they see no evidence that riding a bike is a dangerous sport, and from all I can gather, would see a helmet on a bike rider as silly, much like a helmet on a pedestrian.
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Date: 2010-05-22 10:37 pm (UTC)They don't wear helmets in the Netherlands (or Denmark for that matter) because they see no evidence that riding a bike is a dangerous sport, and from all I can gather, would see a helmet on a bike rider as silly, much like a helmet on a pedestrian.