{"id":977,"date":"2009-10-08T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=977"},"modified":"2009-10-08T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T18:45:17","slug":"new-motorcycle-safety-study-apparently-moving-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/new-motorcycle-safety-study-apparently-moving-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"New Motorcycle Safety Study Apparently Moving Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last I had heard, the new motorcycle safety study that had finally been authorized <a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/update-motorcycle-crash-study-in-jeopardy\/\" target=\"_blank\">was in jeopardy<\/a>. Apparently, in this case no news was good news because I see in a recent issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ama-cycle.org\/magazine\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">American Motorcyclist<\/a><\/em> that things are moving along.<\/p>\n<p>I knew that a pilot study had been set up and was functioning, with the intent of determining which factors the overall study should focus on, as well as helping determine methodology. The hang-up had been over costs. The amount originally projected was looking inadequate and there was reluctance to get started without full funding assured.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t know if full funding has been assured, but according to American Motorcyclist, &#8220;The full study is expected to begin soon and will take several years to complete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article also states that &#8220;The federal government earmarked up to $2.8 million for the research, provided that the motorcycling community came up with another $2.8 million. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ama-cycle.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">AMA<\/a> immediately pledged $100,000 for the effort and AMA members kicked in money. Also, the motorcycle industry committed to provide $2.8 million through the Motorcycle Safety Foundation, making the new study a reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So actually, I guess that&#8217;s it right there. The money may not all be in hand but someone, somewhere committed to getting the money one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>Great. Let the project begin. This can only do good for those of us who ride.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent from National Motorcycle Examiner<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2009m10d8-Planning-a-US-motorcycle-tour-A-Brits-recommendations\" target=\"_blank\">Planning a US motorcycle tour: A Brit&#8217;s recommendations<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last I had heard, the new motorcycle safety study that had finally been authorized was in jeopardy. Apparently, in this case no news was good news because I see in a recent issue of American Motorcyclist that things are moving along. I knew that a pilot study had been set up and was functioning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety","tag-motorcycle-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}