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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Richard230 on September 15, 2019, 02:55:10 AM
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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
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Thanks! Good reading, even if three years old ^-^
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100 riders covering 360,000 miles had 30 crashes???
That's averaging one crash per oil change.
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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.
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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. ::)
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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?