Compulsory helmets

With the compulsory helmets law recently making the news again http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/16/2983587.htm I thought it would be interesting to set up a poll to capture people’s attitudes to helmets and if you think they should be compulsory And if you have any thoughts on the law please feel free to leave a comment
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Canberra’s Hill Climb Guide

Welcome to my King of the Mountains V2.0, now with improved elevation calculations thanks to some good folk on the Vikings cycling forums I discovered how extract the data from Garmin TCX files so I could graph the actual data and not rely on the rather clumsy screen grabs. In addition I have used Tableau to graph the data, which allows you to select and...
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The Garmin Edge series 305, 705 and 500

This is not meant to be a thorough review of the Garmin Edge series, if you want specific reviews there are plenty of them out there and you can compare the specifications directly on the Garmin website. What you will find here is images of all three units side by side so you can see the size difference and get my valuable insights into the...
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Security concerns with Garmin Connect

OK this might be me being paranoid but I started playing with Garmin Connect last night and noticed a real issue with privacy and security with the service. To start with, when you upload your ride data by default Garmin Connect shares your data with the world unless you specifically change the privacy settings. So all things being equal the average user wont give this...
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