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"Cycling declined when the law was introduced while I was in primary school. It bounced back though and cycling is bigger than ever now."
Here you go . . . (graph shows hypothetical - time horizontal - cycling uptake vertical - illustrative only.)
Cycling is generally rising, which leads to an increase in cycle accidents.
Due to the increase in cycling accidents - a mandatory helmet use law is introduced [A].
Cycling uptake declines - but then from [B] onwards starts to recover (the 'bounce back') and then goes on to become bigger than ever (point [C] onwards).
You could read this as - an initial rejection of the mandatory helmet use law . . . then it's eventual acceptance, after which point it has no meaningful impact on cycling uptake - or even a positive effect ('bigger now than ever').