Goodbye Toronto's Bike Culture

look at australia, cycling gone down the moment they introduced helmet law, and with licensing/regisation for your bike just to cycle, I highly doubt this will encourage people to cycle.

nah, it won't kill it, but severally hindered cycling in general.

as for helmet saving lives, I'll says this - safety in number, not equipment.

Australia: If you were a long-locked surfie, would you be seen dead with your hair all matted under a helmet? Different country, different response, just because they behave one way, doesn't mean Britain would follow the same way.

Registration for bikes: This one I'm in two minds about. Everyone complains that the police aren't interested in their stolen bike but when you break it down, expecting every Met copper to look for your bike because "it's the only Bert Scroggins track frame sprayed metallic purple in the whole of London" is actually a bit much. To most police, a bike is just a bike and they can't be stopping every purple bike for the next three weeks, hoping it's yours. Even if it's "really easy to tell a Bert Scroggins frame because of the line of the chain stays". If bikes had registration (depending on how they do it) then it might make the Five-0 more interested in tracking your ride down and make it harder to sell on stolen bikes. Downside: We'll have start paying road tax, to pay for the organisation that administrates our licences.