The thesis is divided into three major sections. Section One is devoted to a discussion of the motives and assumptions behind this particular study and of the problems involved in formulating a research procedure. The general intent is to generate an account of some important facets of the North American motorcycling boom. The basic method is to ask approximately fifteen hundred cyclists, "What do you get out of it?" in a series of separate motorcycle -situated encounters. It is assumed that this procedure elicits subject accounts of what motorcycling means. A schemata is developed to explain the process by which a single account of these many participant explications may be created. The result is a thematization of recurrent elements of responses. In addition, the further procedure of consultative feedback is employed in a series of one hundred second-order encounters. Section two contains a discussion of the nine major themes which are redacted as an account of the fifteen hundred encounters. Each theme is discussed at length, and the schematized relations between them are explained in terms of the clustering of concurrent response elements. In addition, two findings which do not fit the schema are presented: one is the adamant refusal to respond, the other is the invocation of a form of communality / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2009. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2008. / Adviser: Janan Smither. Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-165).

To determine the differences between the control strategies of skilled and less-skilled riders as they control the lateral and longitudinal motion of a motorcycle, a study of motorcycle handling skills and their assessment was carried out. For the experiments, an instrumented motorcycle was developed which allowed the recording of the various rider/cycle control and response variables while skill tests were being conducted. Riders with a range of riding skills performed a standard skill test and an alternative skill test on the instrumented motorcycle. The experimental data were extensively examined and differences in the control behaviour over the range of riding skills were identified and quantified. A theoretical model was developed describing how less-skilled riders may control the lateral motion of their motorcycle.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of British Columbia, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 261-268). Also issued online.

Thesis (M.S. in Manpower Systems Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2010. / Thesis Advisor: Henderson, David R. ; Hatch, William D. "March 2010." Author(s) subject terms: Motorcycle safety training, motorcycle accident, motorcycle fatality, motorcycle injury, motorcycle life insurance cost, motorcycle hospitalization cost, military occupational specialty cost. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-70). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 107 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. WVU users: Also available in print for a fee.

Thesis (M.Pub.Health) - University of Queensland, 2006. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1985. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-171). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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