TEXMOTO
Dealership showroom floor shot straight on, a row of five motorcycles of mixed displacement parked at an angle, a single adult salesperson standing at the far end

Machines · Drawing 01

A Million Units and What They Are

Eicher Motors reports Royal Enfield wholesales of approximately one million units a year. Harley-Davidson reported roughly 150,000 globally in 2023. Almost everything about the decade sits inside that ratio.

A dealership floor carrying machines of mixed displacement.Photo: Gustavo Fring / Pexels

1,000,000

Royal Enfield · reported units a year

Drawing 02 · the volume gap

THE GAP, AT TRUE PROPORTION

1,000,000Royal Enfield · reported units a year
6.7×the gap, as a multiple of the smaller figure
150,000Harley-Davidson · reported units a year
0250,000500,000750,0001,000,000

Both bars share one scale; the shorter is fifteen per cent of the longer. Each maker's own reported annual volumes. Read the piece

Three of the four sections

Aerial view of a switchback road winding across dry, hilly terrain
Ranch Road 337 between Medina and Leakey; the loop's traffic is counted by TxDOT at the county line.Photo: K / Pexels

Ranch Roads

Texas roads as geography, traffic record and enforcement subject — Hill Country, Big Bend, the Twisted Sisters and the data TxDOT keeps.

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Adult mechanic's hands working on an opened parallel-twin engine on a workshop bench, overhead fluorescent light, tools laid on a cloth, oil on metal
An engine opened on the bench; the 650 twin platform is air- and oil-cooled with fuel injection.Photo: cottonbro studio / Pexels

Machines

Displacement segments, manufacturer volumes and the market arithmetic behind who sells what and to whom.

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Motorcycle racers lean through a curve in a pack during a track race
A Grand Prix field on track — the commercial rights Liberty Media agreed to buy from Dorna in 2024.Photo: Aditya Addanki / Pexels

Racing

MotoGP under Liberty Media, the Isle of Man's published fatality record, COTA's calendar position, and flat track in Texas.

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Supporters

SUPPORTERS OF TEX MOTO

Rules & Data · 6 pieces

TWENTY-FOUR TIMES, AND THE PAPERWORK THAT FOLLOWS IT

24×

24 Times: What NHTSA's Exposure Data Shows

NHTSA reports motorcyclist deaths against vehicle miles travelled rather than registrations, which is what makes the comparison with car occupants mean anything.

22.06

What Changed Between 22.05 and 22.06

The ECE certification printed inside a shell changed, and with it the test: 22.06 added an oblique-impact measurement 22.05 never ran.

1997

Texas's Partial Repeal and the Data That Followed

Texas removed universal helmet coverage and replaced it with an age and insurance exemption. TxDOT's tables record what followed.

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Drawing 03 · at true coordinates

State of Texas · 254 counties

12345678TEXAS — ROUGHLY 1,240 KM EAST TO WEST
Texas, with every place these pieces keep returning to. The Twisted Sisters loop sits in the Hill Country west of San Antonio; the River Road runs along the Rio Grande at the state's south-western corner, below Big Bend; the racing and the rallies sit in Austin, Fort Worth and Galveston.Geometry: map kit, projected

Legend · eight places, west to east

  1. 1LeakeyReal County · Hill CountryThree Ranch Roads, One Traffic ProblemRanch Roads
  2. 2VanderpoolBandera County · Hill CountryThree Ranch Roads, One Traffic ProblemRanch Roads
  3. 3LajitasBrewster County · Big BendFM 170 and the River Road It FollowsRanch Roads
  4. 4TerlinguaBrewster County · Big BendFM 170 and the River Road It FollowsRanch Roads
  5. 5COTATravis County · AustinCOTA and Its Place on the CalendarRacing
  6. 6AustinTravis County · Central TexasGalveston in November, Austin in JuneRanch Roads
  7. 7GalvestonGalveston County · Gulf coastGalveston in November, Austin in JuneRanch Roads
  8. 8Fort WorthTarrant County · North TexasTexas Rounds, Both KindsRacing