06-02-2016, 07:35 AM
I finally got around to reading through the research paper. I didn't understand some of the technical statistical stuff—sadly, numbers do my head in—but what I suspect can be taken from the work is that motorcycle ride training is a benefit in the period immediately after it's been taken. Over time, it appear, on-road experience means that skill levels equalise and the apparent difference between trained and untrained riders disappears.
Without any evidence, that's kind of what I would expect and gels with the work on drivers I mentioned earlier which suggests that the 3-6 months after getting a licence that allows a person to drive alone is a high risk period. The old adage that 'there's no substitute for experience' seems to hold good.
Taken together, the upshot of the research seems to me to be that training improves performance in a a critical risk period and that makes it worthwhile.
Without any evidence, that's kind of what I would expect and gels with the work on drivers I mentioned earlier which suggests that the 3-6 months after getting a licence that allows a person to drive alone is a high risk period. The old adage that 'there's no substitute for experience' seems to hold good.
Taken together, the upshot of the research seems to me to be that training improves performance in a a critical risk period and that makes it worthwhile.