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.
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Research roundups and academic posts.
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.
Events, Research
Recent research into motorcycle culture — June 2026
Three recent items in motorcycle culture: a Tokyo bōsōzoku exhibition, the 2026 Bike Shed Moto Show, and the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride.
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Recent research into motorcycle culture — May 2026
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.
Culture, Motorcycle Safety, Research
Has Motorcycling Lost Its Cool? Sales, Regulation, and the Subcultural Problem, May 2026
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.