In which year was the wearing of crash helmets for motor cycle riders made compulsory?
The Motor Cycle Classic Motor Cycle and other projects under IPC magazines. The two publications continued as one in the newspaper format, initially under the name "Motor Cycle Incorporating Motor Cycling" under Motor Cycle publishers Iliffe Specialist Publications Ltd. Stalwart 'Motor Cycle' staffman David Dixon (1933–2013) – a specialist road-race and road-test reporter and successful endurance racer – continued-on with the merged staff from 1967 bút left by 1971 to establish a road-race school – "Dixon Robb Racing" – in conjunction with successful 1950s and 1960s racer Tommy Robb. By 1973 Dixon had established his own retail concern – "Dixon Racing" – with
Bicycle helmets in Australia children aged five to seven years were in favour of wearing helmets, whereas older children were opposed. In 1987 the Victorian Parliamentary Road Safety Committee tabled a report in the Parliament of Victoria which included a recommendation for mandatory wearing of helmets. The terms of reference for the inquiry related to child pedestrians and child cyclists and to report on 'the use of safety helmets by child cyclists'. By 1989, just before the government decided to introduce compulsory wearing of bicycle helmets, an officially-commissioned survey showed that public support for it was 92% for children and 83% for all riders.