If you’re in Vancouver, I’d recommend picking it up at one of the stores listed.
If you really want it shipped within town, it’ll be about $5 or $6, just select that option when you place the order online.

Thanks!
Dustin

BTW, LOVE the calendar, it’s brilliant.

Keep up the great work!
Aynsley

Duncan from Biking Toronto replied to your similar comment on his site already, so I’ll just paste that here.

Duncan H said at 10:34 am on December 8th, 2010:

“Whoa there, Matthew. There is absolutely nothing “anti-cycling” about Prohab. They are based in a province where helmets are mandatory and where some people can’t afford either a helmet or the subsequent tickets that would result by their not owning one.”

Additionally, we have seen The TED video and respect Mikael Colville-Andersen’s opinion.

Start here, with this TED talk: http://video.tedxcopenhagen.dk/video/911034/mikael-colville-andersen

then move on to The Bicycle Helmet Research Foundation at http://www.cyclehelmets.org.

Happy journey to knowledge!

It’s a waste of time to censure anyhow. It’s never going to happen and efforts to attempt it are wasted. In fact, it simply makes those making the effort look one-sided, narrow minded, and untrustworthy.

If it is indeed important to educate the public, it’ll stick only if you present information that is honest and balanced. Something Prohab is not doing by attempting to present an image that does not exist in the real world .

Also, although there are definitely some safe locations to ride your bike in the world, it’s clear to BC/Vancouver/Canadian statistics that we are not at that standard yet. It will take a lot of work to educate people who not only cycle but use all sorts of transportation to work together in creating safe spaces. Until then, those who wish to prevent their friends and families from getting hurt in un-necessary bike accidents will continue to promote safety in their own ways, such as Prohab is doing.

I think that supplementing awareness with further education as to how to ride safely in addition to wearing a helmet would also be a positive. Mostly it sounds like you have an issue with some of the policies of pro-helmet organizations in the states. I hope you’re able to communicate your opinions to the places you’ve mentioned in addition to the comments on this blog post. As it’s clear you’ve thought a lot about it. Good luck!

This is not the first time this issue has been brought forth. The League of American Bicyclists had refused to link a promotional video of Mathew Modines, “Bicycle For a Day” movement because in the video, he was shown riding without a helmet. The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration printed a report entitled, Handy Lessons From Overseas on Walking and Bicycling, in which they photo-shopped helmets onto cyclists in Europe without the authors permission. Velo News was also chastised for including one picture of an elderly cyclist running an errand in an article that implored people to replace at least one car trip of a mile or less with a walk or bike ride on a weekly basis.

This is worse than simply burying your head in the sand and refusing to acknowledge the ways of the world, it’s promoting ignorance and disinformation.

It seems helmeteers are more concerned with having people wearing helmets than being safe, because it is very possible to be safe without a helmet. In fact, in the safest areas in the world for cyclists, virtually no one wears helmets.

But like I said, this is not a debate on the value of a helmet, just a wake up call that there is more than just one view of the world and to ignore or refuse to acknowledge any view you may not agree with simply makes things worse. We can learn from differences and tolerance. These differences make us stronger. Being ignorant and dismissive makes us weaker.