Oh, god, not this again.
Does anyone remember the first incarnation of the bike helmet ordinance in Austin? And how everyone bitched and bitched and bitched, and it was finally repealed, and then we all took our sweaty, smelly helmets off and pedaled away happily with the breeze blowing through our hair? I know helmets are safer. I just find them cumbersome and hot and hateful, and I don't want to wear one, especially since most of my riding is limited to a route down side streets to the damn grocery store.