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There's been an increase in motorcycling in the US over the past 20 years, and I think a decent amount of the newcomers have a disproportionate amount of respec
by kube-system 2y ago
There's been an increase in motorcycling in the US over the past 20 years, and I think a decent amount of the newcomers have a disproportionate amount of respect compared to the capabilities of the machine they're buying.
- dahart 2y agoOkay I can buy that and the IIHS report seems to back it up with “27% of the fatally injured motorcyclists in 2022 were younger than 30, compared with 80% in 1975.” https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/motorcycles-and-atvs#age-and-sex https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/motor... I think the stats I was thinking of might be the NHTSA crash stats, and they have a section on age correlations. If younger riders are getting safer, that would lead to higher percent of older riders having trouble. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813466.pdf https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
- Ekaros 2y agoAlternative that pops in my mind is that there is more older riders. That might be due to variance in disposable income. Or change in habits. I wonder how does this correlate with ownership. So is there more over 30 owners and by how much.
- kube-system 2y agoI think that a lot of people of multiple age groups are driving (and riding) more aggressively than in the past. But also there’s culturally a subset of people who have adopted motorcycling with more of an interest in the aesthetics of motorcycling rather than the practice of it. The show-offs, macho tough guy wannabes. Were middle age accountants trying to act tough on a straight piped motorcycle in the 70?