Wow. TOm, you should send this to the UCI, and/or all the professional cyclists that are pressing the UCI to not rule the Helmet as compulsory.

They claim that they are big enough to make decisions regarding their own health, your editorial clearly explains why such a decision doesn't only include themselves, it has effects on many other people, including and firstly their family, but also official race doctors, teammates, spectators, ... Not mentioning the fact that they have a lot of influence on young (and less young) riders throughout the world.