study has found the design and the sitting position leading to pelvic injury

[Biga]

Good read

https://motoridersuniverse.com/news...cycles-linked-to-risk-of-pelvic-injuries.html

 

[greenmonster]

This is amazing. This ties in with my thread about head on collisions recently. So sportbikes are safer than cruisers? Who would have thought

 

[dravnx]

A bit confusing. The first sentence "one of the most common forms of injury among motorcyclists."
And then "About 15 per cent of injuries involving motorcyclists are pelvic injuries."
That doesn't sound like the most common injury.

 

[Gary856]

So sportbikes are safer than cruisers? Who would have thought

If you fly over the tank head first and ram something with your head, you're less likely to get pelvic injury, but is it safer?

A bit confusing. The first sentence "one of the most common forms of injury among motorcyclists."
And then "About 15 per cent of injuries involving motorcyclists are pelvic injuries."
That doesn't sound like the most common injury.

"One of the most common" does not mean "the most common".

 

[DannoXYZ]

I wonder how your legs hooking under handlebars as you fly forward contribute to butterfly pelvic injury.

 

[Gary856]

I wonder how your legs hooking under handlebars as you fly forward contribute to butterfly pelvic injury.

The femurs break in that situation (so the pelvis will be fine). After that the rider and the bike do a forward summersault and the bike lands on top of the rider.

 

[anytwowilldo]

I was at a party years ago where I met a Urologist. After a few cocktails, no pun intended:teeth, motorcycles came up. He mentioned that his most common surgery is reattaching men's testes Be careful out there guys.

 

[ilikefood]

A bit confusing. The first sentence "one of the most common forms of injury among motorcyclists."
And then "About 15 per cent of injuries involving motorcyclists are pelvic injuries."
That doesn't sound like the most common injury.

Why couldn’t it be the most common injury?

 

[1962siia]

In 1997 on future mrs1962's bday, I abruptly came to stop and put a nice dent in the tank of my VFR with my manly bits. I then proceeded to superman off the bike and landed on my head and then my back.

I ended up in the ER (thanks Rich from Cycletow! for scraping me up). Everything healed up and works fine but man that wasn't much fun. My right hip joint works differently from the left side though. Not surprised this is common. Afterward people asked about the dent in the tank, and it was always a "fun" story to tell. :teeth

 

[Johndicezx9]

I would think the most common injuries would be hands/arms and knees as even a low impact thump would send a rider to the ground....

 

[Blankpage]

I read an article years ago by an emergency room surgeon who said the most common motorcycle injury he saw was to feet and ankles. He suggested boots being the second most important safety gear after a helmet.

 

[DataDan]

In Hurt's 1981 report on 900 motorcycle crashes his team investigated in the LA area, 117 riders--13%--suffered groin injuries. He devoted 9 pages to them, almost as much as the 12 pages on head injuries. I'm going to post his introductory paragraphs, a table or two, and a few bullet points. There's more on these and other kinds of injuries in the report. You can download it as a scanned PDF from here (this is the best scan I've found; I'm able to copy and paste mostly accurate text from it).

8.9 Groin Injuries

Early in the course of data collection, it became apparent that a substantial number of riders (and some passengers) complained of injury to the groin and often diffuse abdominal pain. In most instances this was associated with a characteristic pattern of damage to the motorcycle in which the top and sides at the back of the fuel tank was deformed inwards. Indeed, it was often possible to tell the type of cloth of the rider's pants (such as corduroy) from the cloth marks left on the paint. Handlebars typically showed signs of rider contact such as bending or forward rotation in the clamps.

A total of 117 riders sustained groin injuries (13% of the 900 cases) which ranged from simple complaints of pain to rupture of the urinary and severe lacerations of the penis. Basic information defining the injury is shown in Table8.9.1, which shows the distribution of lesion type and the system or organ involved. The large majority of groin injuries involved no external bleeding; contusion of the genitals accounted for 87.2% of the groin injuries. The lack of external trauma often led treating physicians to overlook the groin injury. Many of the riders were hospitalized for testing for internal injuries (testing was usually negative) when they were simply suffering referred pain from groin impact.


TABLE 8.9.1--Groin Injury Lesion Type

[table=head]Lesion Type | Frequency | Adjusted %
--------------------|--------------------|--------------
contusion | 102 | 87.2
laceration | 12 | 10.3
pain | 1 | 0.9
rupture | 1 | 0.9
avulsion | 1 | 0.9
[/table]


TABLE 8.9.2--Groin Injury Severity

[table=head]Severity | Frequency | Adjusted %
--------------------|--------------------|--------------
minor | 92 | 78.6
moderate | 17 | 14.5
serious | 2 | 1.7
severe | 6 | 5.1
[/table]
​

Some other noteworthy findings:

• 89.8% of the crashes that resulted in groin injuries were frontal impacts, either dead-on or offset to either side.
  
  
• Those crashes were overwhelmingly multiple-vehicle--91.5%
  
  
• In 52.6% of crashes resulting in groin injury, impact point was the fuel tank, in 29.1% it was the handlebars

 

[gixxerjeff]

I read an article years ago by an emergency room surgeon who said the most common motorcycle injury he saw was to feet and ankles. He suggested boots being the second most important safety gear after a helmet.

I would think that broken wrists and forearms would be pretty high on that list too.

 

[DesiDucati]

I would think that broken wrists and forearms would be pretty high on that list too.

The most common motorcycle injuries I gotten and I’ve seen others get are fingers, toes, wrist, elbow, knee and ankle injuries. Wearing protection makes a big difference. I like the ATGAT tradition here. But it doesn’t exist in other places like India and even places in the USA like Texas, NY, and LA.

 

[HarleyonaHonda]

Gary856 is exactly right. Avoiding a pelvic injury in lieu of a TBI may not be a desired trade off.

 

[vizcarmb]

Just another thread to hate on cruiser riders