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The sight of a massive amount of cyclists taking over a major highway may be enough to give any cycling advocate a heart attack, but the scene above is from 8:15 this morning during the Toronto’s Heart and Stroke Bike ride along the Gardiner and the DVP.<\/p>\n

Keeping with the cycling theme, an article in today’s Star<\/em><\/a> features a study which explores why Torontonians seem adverse to wearing helmets while riding a bike. In many places, like Halifax and Vancouver, it is mandatory to wear a helmet when riding on the road, but it Toronto once you are 18 years or older, you can choose to ditch the head protection.<\/p>\n

At various times over a period of three weeks this spring, they counted 1,446 cyclists and found that only 44 per cent of them wore helmets. Perhaps not surprisingly, women were more likely to don headgear, but even among them the number was only about 54 per cent. Among the guys: 40 per cent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks to Jacqueline Treloar for the image.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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