Recent research into motorcycle culture — March 2026
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.
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Research
Research roundups and academic posts.
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Recent research into motorcycle culture — February 2026
One central piece this month: Steven Burr’s IJMS essay on the motorcycle as aesthetic and ontological vehicle, working through Keats, Heidegger and Pirsig.
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Recent research into motorcycle culture — January 2026
Three from IJMS Vol 22’s January launch: Wragg on European biker comics, Hoiland on The Bikeriders, and Stanley & Bridge on UK transport policy.
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Recent research into motorcycle culture — December 2025
A quiet December: PetaPixel’s photographic-criticism pickup of Jack Lueders-Booth’s American Motorcycling Culture is the standout.
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Recent research into motorcycle culture — November 2025
Two for November 2025: EICMA broke attendance records in Milan, and D’Orazio & Mambelli’s ethnography of Thailand’s “Vanz Boys” landed.
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Recent research into motorcycle culture — October 2025
Quiet October: only Daytona Biketoberfest worth flagging this month, with academic publishing in pre-EICMA holding pattern.
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Recent research into motorcycle culture — September 2025
A thinner September: European Bike Week at Faaker See and the Myrtle Beach Fall Bike Rally on the Atlantic seaboard. Light on academic publishing.
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Recent research into motorcycle culture — August 2025
Three for August 2025: the 85th Sturgis Rally, the Isle of Man Classic TT, and Helen Owton’s autoethnography on motorcycle maintenance.
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Recent research into motorcycle culture — July 2025
Three for July 2025: the Malle Mile in Lincolnshire, the 43rd Faro Rally in Portugal, and the 12th IJMS conference at Akureyri, Iceland.
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Recent research into motorcycle culture — June 2025
Three for June 2025: Wheels and Waves in Biarritz, Born Free 16 in Silverado, and a tourism study on rural motorcycling in Portugal.