Testing the Limits of Yourself & Your Bike Survey

[Crane]

But you didn't participate in the survey. That's like not voting and them bitching about the government you get.

Yeah, for sure Heidi, I see your point about my non-participation and I wish I had been a part of the survey so I could've been informed of its content as well as its conclusion.

But my point is still the same. When an individual (or group) conducts a public examination of varying factors relating to any set of social circumstances they really are obligated to come up with a set of observations that are complete in themselves and provide, if not a direct answer, at least a deducible path to answer whatever question one could reasonably expect to be asked.

So, if not clear to the OP, I'm not condemming the survey. It's just that I finished reading the conclusions with more questions than when I started, the top two being the results in terms of rider age (there's no way I want to be lumped into a statistical box with the teenage idiot on an old RZ350 that nearly died under a truck right in front of me the other day) and a thorough qualification of what determines the very subjective issue of what parameters affect the determination of behaviour that could be classed as the "various motorcycle riding behaviours", including venue, age, experience, vehicle suitability, classification of "stunt" etc etc.

I'm all for public evaluation of social factors that affect everyone (eg. resultant medical costs that are shared by all from various personal behaviours) but the evaluation has to be conclusive to the point where it at least makes it difficult for someone with a personal or political axe to grind to grab the results under the auspises of "scientifically correct" and club the social group in question over the head with it.

More than one public examination of this type of a social group such as us has resulted in a public and media driven result that has horrified the originator of the study (the so called "supercar" scare of the early 70's being a prime example) but was a problem just waiting to happen because the "authoritive study" on which it was based was relatively incomplete and completely open to interpretation.

Anyway, I hope the study satisfied the purpose for which it was intended, which I assume was to contribute to the studies of Catherine010 and despite my opinion (or maybe because of it) I really enjoyed reading the results.

And besides which, Lol, what do I know, I dont even have a bike that can DO wheel spins!!