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Motorcycle Registration Numbers

Postby starcain » Fri Sep 08, 2017 8:15 am

This is not K or Sportster specific but thought maybe some of you guys that may have never seen these numbers might find them interesting. This was published in September, 1958 in Cycle.
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Re: Motorcycle Registration Numbers

Postby EKHKHK56 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 8:38 am

Calif wins! Alaska doesn't exist! As usual...cant even fo cencus because the igloos all melt in spring. :lol:
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Re: Motorcycle Registration Numbers

Postby EKHKHK56 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 8:39 am

EKHKHK56 wrote:Calif wins! Alaska doesn't exist! As usual...cant even do cencus because the igloos all melt in spring. :lol:
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Re: Motorcycle Registration Numbers

Postby EKHKHK56 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 8:39 am

EKHKHK56 wrote:Calif wins! Alaska doesn't exist! As usual...cant even do cencus because the igloos all melt in spring. :lol:
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Re: Motorcycle Registration Numbers

Postby Mayday53 » Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:42 pm

Alaska was not a state until 1959........
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Re: Motorcycle Registration Numbers

Postby jOe » Fri Sep 22, 2017 7:45 pm

I wonder how many were police bikes.
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Numbers Never Lie ???

Postby hennesse » Sun Sep 24, 2017 11:09 am

I suspect there are some nit-pickers out there who are into meaningless manual labor. If that describes you, grab your calculator, and add up the numbers for a particular year, and see if you get the same total that is shown in the document. My preliminary results show that the totals for 1948, 1953, 1954, and 1955 are different that what is shown.

I OCR'd the document with the wonderful ABBYY that Sportster Paul provided (thank you Paul!), and imported into Excel. I created a calculated set of totals. For the years noted, the calculated totals are different that what's shown in the document. OCR errors, right? Wrong! I used my trusty hand calculator to add the 1948, and then the 1955 columns from the original document. In both cases, the hand calculator agreed with the Excel, which did NOT agree with the total in the document. I didn't bother with the other years. Woo-hoo.

What's really interesting to me is the big increases and decreases in neighboring states.
NV increased by 217% over the 10 years. Neighboring NM increased by 142%
MD decreased by 39% over the 10 years. VA decreased by 22% NC decreased by 48%
NY decreased by 50% Neighboring NJ stayed almost steady with a 4% decrease.

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Re: Motorcycle Registration Numbers

Postby jOe » Sun Sep 24, 2017 1:14 pm

No real big surprise about the percentage increase in Nevada vs. New Mexico. It coincides with the population increase during that era. Reno more or less doubled in population and Las Vegas went from basically nothing in '48 to almost an equal sized city.
Unless the radioactive fallout mutated things.
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Re: Motorcycle Registration Numbers

Postby starcain » Sun Sep 24, 2017 5:08 pm

Dave, Were the numbers off by a lot or not to much. Goes to show you, you just can't trust shit. LOL BTW, maybe you got to much time on your hands !!!
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Re: Motorcycle Registration Numbers

Postby hennesse » Sun Sep 24, 2017 7:52 pm

Here's the file with the %change for each state. Some states went up every year, some went down, and some bounced back and forth a bit. I manually added up the 1953 and 1954 columns from the original, and the "Calc Totals" are correct. They're not too far off - I'll bet some dyslexic typist typed 1432 instead of 1234 in a couple of places. But it just goes to show you can't believe everything you read on the Internet ;->
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