When friends and family fear for your life, reassure them with these links. All based on solid research, not hysterical headlines.

Safety quiz

This quiz assesses your perception of risks on the road, but the link is broken at present (July 2011) - trying to find the new address.

Good News about Bicycling

A website for everyday cycling folk, but the link is broken at present (July 2011) - trying to find new details.

Although a U.S.A. site, the tips and info are just as useful on this side of the pond.

Bicycle Helmet Research Foundation

To wear a helmet or not? Read the facts here and make up your own mind. Pros and cons based on solid well designed research rather than emotive opinion, anecdotal evidence or skewed statistics.

The Bicycle Helmet Research Foundation (BHRF) states on its website that it is 'an incorporated body with an international membership, to undertake, encourage, and spread the scientific study of the use of bicycle helmets.'

It continues with 'The purpose of cyclehelmets.org [ie BHRF's website] is to provide a resource of best-available factual information to assist the understanding of a complex subject, and one where some of the reasoning may conflict with received opinion. In particular we seek to provide access to a wider range of information than is commonly made available by some governments and other bodies ... It is hoped that this will assist informed judgements about the pros and cons of cycle helmets.'