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From: rh@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Helmet Law Survey Results
Message-ID: <2843@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 23:24:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2843
Posted: Thu Aug  7 23:24:09 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 08:02:05 EDT
References: <2774@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <577@houem.UUCP>
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Summary: Clarification to Helmet Law Survey

In article <577@houem.UUCP>, ahn@houem.UUCP (Au H. Nguyen) writes:
> -
> > The long awaited ... helmet survey by "Road Rider" has come out.
> > ... they collected 11219. responses!
> 
> "Road Rider" is very heavily touring oriented, and touring riders tend to be
> quite conservative, which explains the 66% "always wear a helmet."
...
> I think if you survey the readership of a more main stream magazine
> (judging from their editorial content) like "Motorcyclist" you'll find
> different results, especially in helmet types.
> 
> 	Au	ihnp4!houem!ahn

I should have pointed out that the survey was a cooperative effort organized
by the magazine.   Of the 11219. bikers who responded, these are the numbers
for how many responses were received by each of the organizations involved:

1322	A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments (ABATE) 
3012	AMA
 955	BMW Motorcycle Owners of America
1738	Gold Wing Road Riders Association
  93	Motorcyclist's Post (New England)
  99	Nevada Association of concerned Motorcyclists
2951	Road Rider Magazine
 311	Venture Touring Society

GWRRA was actually the most "conservative" (favoring helmet law), as might
be expected, as was BMWMOA (also not suprising).  As the name might
indicate, ABATE was far and away the most "radical".  But there's
still a lot of data I just don't feel like typing in, so if anyone
is interested, picking up the mag is a good idea.

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