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[Richard230]

The Motorcycle Safety Foundation paid the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute several million dollars to perform a multi-year motorcycle riding and crash analysis in order to provide a more current study of motorcycle crashes than the one that was originally performed by Harry Hurt in 1981.  Here is a summary of the results of this 100-sample study: 
https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/what-virginia-tech-learned-about-how-and-why-we-crash-our-motorcycles

[Crissa]

Thanks!  Good reading, even if three years old

[Bill822]

100 riders covering 360,000 miles had 30 crashes???
That's averaging one crash per oil change.

[Crissa]

100 riders covering 360,000 miles had 30 crashes???
That's averaging one crash per oil change.

They called anything where the bike laid down but was powered and had moved as a crash.

[Richard230]

Thanks!  Good reading, even if three years old

True, but then the Hurt Report is 35 years old, so this latest study is very new by comparison.  And is likely to be the last one for another 30 years, I bet. 

[Crissa]

I was hoping for more than the summary by now; there's been time to drill into the numbers in different ways.  The meat of the summary is only a couple pages.

I wonder if anyone has?