Testing the Limits of Yourself & Your Bike Survey

[mcbcatherine]

Hi,

My name is Catherine and I'm currently looking for people to participate in my research project. This project is part of my Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology degree at Deakin University.

The project follows up a study conducted in 2008, which found that people high in psychological need for control (people who like a lot of control over their lives - if you like, ‘control freaks’!) were generally safer riders. However, we unexpectedly also found that these riders reported more performance of stunts (wheelies and wheel spins).

This study therefore aims to further explore the relationship between safety and stunting. Are those high in need for control seeking to test the limits of themselves and their bikes? Can stunting help you become a safer rider?

We are therefore looking for licenced on-road motorcycle riders, who have ridden within the last 24 months, to complete the confidential questionnaire that makes up this project.

If you're interested in participating, or just want to find out more, then please follow the link below:

http://www.deakin.edu.au/psychology/res ... clingstudy

[tim]

What's a stunt?

I hear MrWasabi is into them now

[DMonkey]

I think a stunt when you do fully sick tricks like standing up on my pegs while riding... or if i take 1 hand off the handle bars?

[MrWasabi]

What's a stunt?

I hear MrWasabi is into them now

Ill show you how to correctly shit your pants

[Smitty]

....done

bit annoying the site is a bit slow reacting to ones selections

[Lone Wolf]

Done

Agree with above, very slow

[Stereo]

42. Wear a leather one-piece suit. (I wonder if a 2piece ziptogether counts?.... I said no)

[Stereo]

56. Intentionally do a donut. (I would if tires were free! but I dont, because they are expensive)

[Stereo]

1. I can see how it would be interesting to marry someone from a foreign country. ............. Now we are getting to the important questions... lol

15. I often like to have the radio or TV on while I'm doing something else, such as reading or cleaning up. (hmmm a conundrum... When I am reading I like silence... when I am cleaning I like very lound music)

[Stereo]

Done...

[smithy5]

Done...

I like to turn the TV or Radio on when I want to go to sleep I can't sleep if it's too quiet.

[Damon Z1000]

I haven't looked yet and don't think I'm going to. If I wasn't warey enough I would pin this as a goverment survey First post Chick

Or is it a site piss take

I'm gona give it a miss I think.

Good luck the rest of ya

[Ratmick]

Done, it looked pretty harmless to me although it did have more than a sniff of Myer-Briggs about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myer_Briggs if you're interested. They normally pop-up during team-building exercises and are a bit of an eye-opener.

I've done a few of these over the years and they are pretty interesting. Funny enough they've all been roughly the same outcome.

You would have thought that you would change/mellow as you get older, but your basic behaviour doesn't. Maybe I was just born old...my mum thinks so.

In essence:

1. My personality group doesn't like, do or condone overt risk-taking behaviour. This makes us safe and a good insurance risk but we're probably as boring as monkey shit.
2. We tend to over-analyse things. This drives some people of the other groups nuts as it can take us a while to make important decisions. The other side of it is that our choice of solution for the important decision is normally the right choice .
3. We don't generally make good sales people or customer liason staff, but we make a bloody good engineers, accountants, programmers or analysts (just as well given my job).
4. Loud and extremely outgoing people that make good salesman tend to irritate the shit out of us (if we let them). Funny enough my personality type would tend to shit them to tears as well. However when you have a few years under your belt both groups come to appreciate the traits of the other group, you find common ground and you make a good team.

As I said, interesting stuff. The actual Myer-Briggs tests I have done are really long. When I joined the NAB I had to do about six or seven tests, the Myer-Briggs type were a couple of them. At the end of the four to five hours you are completely and utterly shagged and THEN you have to chat to a psychologist. They employed me anyway .

Mick

[Saki]

i do wheelstands on my 500hp turbo ZX10 in my sleep, i can also jump off my bike and land on my feet and the bike will stop and do a few flips then land on the side stand!

Risky i know, but its a risk i am whilling to take

[Ratmick]

i do wheelstands on my 500hp turbo ZX10 in my sleep, i can also jump off my bike and land on my feet and the bike will stop and do a few flips then land on the side stand!

Risky i know, but its a risk i am whilling to take

I don't like or condone your overt risk-taking behaviour but I respect you right as an individual to participate in whatever behaviour as you see fit...

...as long as it's not my bike.

Mick