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I'm not sure if there is a big cultural divided regarding wearing helmets for safety reasons.

Anecdotally it's most strongly driven by "competition" with cars:

- Small city -> Not that much traffic -> No helments

- Big city with lacking bike infrastructure/no strong biking culture -> A lot of close encounters with cars -> Helmets

- Big city with established biking culture -> No helmets



I think you have an inherent bias in your examples. There are bike riders outside of cities.


If you mean rural travel between small cities/towns, that's what I head in mind too with the first example (as that's the setting I grew up in).

If you mean sport biking (race, mountainbike, long distance), then you are right that I didn't consider those.




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