Well, I'm one Tipster who rides. I have two bikes: a Kawasaki Concours 1000cc and a BMW R 1200RT. At 67 I probably fall into the "older rider" category. What was disturbing about the article was not that older riders are more likely to sustain serious injury when they fall, that seems obvious. More worrisome is the appalling lack of date on older riders:
"Specifically, authors were unable to determine how many people in each age group were riding each year, and were therefore unable to determine if the jump in injuries was due to an increase in the rate of crashes among older riders, or if it was simply due to an increase in the number of older motorcyclists on the road." Without that kind of basic data it is pretty hard to draw any meaningful conclusions. -Don. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> Cc: "Michael Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 7:01:11 AM Subject: [tips] Are Any Tipsters Bikers? For our international readers, a "biker" is someone who rides a motorcycle and not one of those "girly-man" Lance Armstrong bicycles. ;-) Given the impression that Tipsters tends to skew old, agewise, there is some published research that they might be interested in. One popular media outlet report is the following: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-motorcycle-injuries-older-riders-20130205,0,3484740.story And the original research article is accessible here: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2013/01/24/injuryprev-2012-040619 What's the bottom line? Quoting from the abstract: |Conclusions Older adults involved in motorcycle crashes are |prone to more severe injuries than younger adults. The |increased number of older adults riding motorcycles should |put further focus on risk of injury to this population. And maybe you shouldn't overdo it drinking Ensure before you get on your bike/hog. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: dap...@shaw.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13157.966b795bc7f3ccb35e3da08aebe98f18&n=T&l=tips&o=23528 or send a blank email to leave-23528-13157.966b795bc7f3ccb35e3da08aebe98...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=23530 or send a blank email to leave-23530-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
