"If it is a question of making helmets mandatory, I will side with people having the right to choose.  Like our no helmet laws for motorcycles, it is a law for people with nothing to lose.  People with sense will realize that it doesn't take a vehicle involved to have a life altering crash.  Other cyclists, inattentive pedestrians and one's own carelessness can cause a crash just as easily.  As for me and my brain, we like a good, sturdy helmet."