{"id":1371,"date":"2012-09-27T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2012-09-27T20:16:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:16:49","slug":"compulsory-wearing-of-cycle-helmets-harbug-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"Compulsory Wearing of Cycle Helmets &#8211; HarBUG Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the introduction of the compulsory wearing of cycle helmets when cycling in the Harwell secure site there was a resolution at the A.G.M. for HarBUG to make a statement of the groups view on cycle helmets.<\/p>\n<p>The following statement on the use of cycle helmets was agreed:<\/p>\n<p><em>HarBUG does not support the compulsory use of cycle helmets and believes it must be left to the choice of the individual cyclist whether to wear a helmet or not<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was decided to keep the statement short and to the point and not to start putting any reasons into the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Full minutes of the A.G.M. will be published shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget if you want to comment on this statement or the compulsory use of cycle helmets a topic has been started in the website &#8216;latest news&#8217; forum.<\/p>\n<p>Also we are now on Twitter. We follow cycle related sites like; CTC, Sustrans, Cyclox, CTC Wantage an retweet interesting stuff so please follow us or check the website panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HarBUG has made a statement about the use of cycle helmets following the introduction of their compulsory use on the Harwell secure site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}