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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you probably know better than anyone here how much risk is involved in the route home from school. Is he right alongside traffic on a narrow road, in a bike lane, on a sidewalk, on a wide street with little traffic? I'm assuming that it's likely a fairly safe route or else your 14 year old would be taking the bus or walking. He could always walk the bike across busy streets. I wouldn't allow my DS to ride his bike to school (with a helmet) based on the traffic patterns and bike-unfriendliness of the route, but I don't freak out if he takes his bike on a two minute ride to a friend's house in the neighborhood without a helmet. I feel it's unlikely he's going to get hit by a car when there simply aren't any cars around and he's not going to just randomly fall off the bike. In fact, he has a healthy fear of trying to ride near cars. I worry more about the longboard and snowboard than the bike. [/quote]
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