Virginia Tech Study - Why we crash

[bigjohnsd]

https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/what-virginia-tech-learned-about-how-and-why-we-crash-our-motorcycles?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11%2F26%2F2016&utm_term=Common+Tread+%7C+Combined

Some good info, reinforces what many have said already - Keep your head up, look where you are going, Cagers are trying to kill you.

 

[its just rain]

And this posting is the reason I check in everyday. Thank you John, good information!

 

[Pterodactyl]

Very small sample. Too small to base any conclusions upon. If you subtract tip overs, there were 15 crashes in the study. Not enough from which to draw any conclusions.

 

[kyote]

Thanks for posting this information.

 

[bigjohnsd]

https://www.msf-usa.org/downloads/msf100_2016/Risk_Factors_From_MSF_100_Study_Paper.pdf

While 366,667 miles of riding sounds like a lot, this study still falls short of fulfilling the hopes we had a decade ago of a comprehensive national study. The telling statistic is that in the entire study there were 30 crashes and 122 near-crash events. There are far more than 30 ways to crash a motorcycle, so drawing conclusions from that sample size is tricky. The inclusion of near-crashes helps, however. Sometimes those events teach us just as much or more than a crash.

 

[steveoreno]

I would need to read the report but agree it was not a large enough sampling.

 

[Nanahanman]

If you’re looking at what’s right in front of you on the track (or street), you’re looking at the past, not the future.

This is a critical point that most drivers, of any vehicle, do not seem to understand.

 

[El Toro]

I don't need to do a study to know that the majority of crashes can be explained by one of the following.

1. Somebody's distracted, Possibly even two somebodys.

2. Somebody's in over their head. They may not know this until it's too late to fix.

Turn off the music. Heads up. Watch your back. Ride your own ride. Wear the gear. This won't fix everything, but it will save your sorry arse an awful lot of the time.

 

[HotRodZilla]

We crash because we run into something. Now, someone pay me for all that hard thinking.