Four pieces for June 2026, two of them on AI-based rider assistance — a vision-language hazard-scoring system and an interpretable pipeline aimed at newly licensed riders — plus machine-learning work on injury severity on rural undivided roads and the passenger effect in single-vehicle crashes.
Three recent items in motorcycle culture: a Tokyo bōsōzoku exhibition, the 2026 Bike Shed Moto Show, and the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride.
Three for May 2026: the 15th Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride on 17 May, Bike Shed Moto Show’s 15th edition at Tobacco Dock, and Paul d’Orleans named IJMS 2026 keynote.
May 2026: motorcycle sales in the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union are contracting unevenly. Royal Enfield is the conspicuous exception. The deeper problem is cultural — an ageing rider base, a federation of demographically narrowing sub-tribes (Maffesoli’s neo-tribalism), and a regulatory environment in Europe that is tightening while the United States continues to do almost nothing.
A May 2026 survey of motorcycle safety legislation across British Columbia, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia — and an argument for why the United States remains the outlier by policy choice rather than by accident.
Three for March 2026: Daytona Bike Week’s record-breaking 33rd edition, The Vintagent on Wendy Pojmann’s USA/Italy motorcycle book, and IJMS’s 2026 call for papers.
One central piece this month: Steven Burr’s IJMS essay on the motorcycle as aesthetic and ontological vehicle, working through Keats, Heidegger and Pirsig.
Three from IJMS Vol 22’s January launch: Wragg on European biker comics, Hoiland on The Bikeriders, and Stanley & Bridge on UK transport policy.
A quiet December: PetaPixel’s photographic-criticism pickup of Jack Lueders-Booth’s American Motorcycling Culture is the standout.
Two for November 2025: EICMA broke attendance records in Milan, and D’Orazio & Mambelli’s ethnography of Thailand’s “Vanz Boys” landed.
