Recent research into motorcycle culture — November 2026
A South African film festival, English transport plans, Italian Futurism, vintage MX tees and Rome’s custom show: this month’s reading.
Culture, Events, Research
Research
Research roundups and academic posts.
Culture, Events, Research
Recent research into motorcycle culture — October 2026
October 2026 motorcycle culture roundup: Eric Hendrikx’s Motorcycle Life, a photo study of the Grampian Motorcycle Club, and European Bike Week.
Motorcycle Safety, Research
Recent motorcycle safety research — September 2026
Six studies, and a note on widening these roundups to be as comprehensive as possible: US airbag-suit data linked to fewer racing injuries, a twenty-year Arkansas helmet-law-repeal study, hazard-perception training in Thailand, and Brazil’s mortality transition.
Events, Research
Recent research into motorcycle culture — September 2026
September 2026 roundup of new motorcycle culture research: women riders in Türkiye, adventure ethnography, the IJMS conference and Sturgis.
Motorcycle Safety, Research
Recent motorcycle safety research — August 2026
A quiet month for new peer-reviewed motorcycle safety research. One study this time: a survey of 2,910 active riders in Thailand testing how risky riding and protective habits each relate to crash involvement, and which of the two weighs more heavily.
Events, Research
Recent research into motorcycle culture — July 2026
July 2026 roundup: the 13th IJMS conference, a history of Leathertogs motorcycle leathers, Malle Mile’s rider demographics and the Faro rally.
Motorcycle Safety, Research
Recent motorcycle safety research — July 2026
A quiet month for new peer-reviewed work. Two pieces worth reading, both on the human-factors and data side: MOTOR, a large multimodal dataset built around powered two-wheelers in dense traffic, and a laboratory study of situation awareness among Indonesian riders.
Events, Research
Recent research into motorcycle culture — June 2026
Monthly links to motorcycle culture research and events for June 2026: Wheels and Waves, the DGR’s 15th year, and a Greek collector’s museum.
Events, Research
Recent research into motorcycle culture — June 2026
Monthly links to motorcycle culture research and events for June 2026: Wheels and Waves, the DGR’s 15th year, and a Greek collector’s museum.
Motorcycle Safety, Research
Recent motorcycle safety research — June 2026
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.