Tyler Shaw, MSBE
As a forensic engineer and licensed motorcycle road racer with over 20 years of riding experience, Tyler has a firsthand understanding of motorcycle dynamics, rider behavior, and the demands of operating a motorcycle at the limits of its capability. His forensic work combines this rider's-eye perspective with deep technical expertise in motorcycle collision reconstruction and helmet performance.
He holds competition licenses with multiple road racing organizations and currently chairs the Motorcycle Safety Special Interest Group of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM).
Tyler is also one of the few forensic engineers in the country with deep technical expertise in motorcycle helmet performance and head injury biomechanics. He is an
ISO-accredited helmet testing technician under the DOT standard and has tested hundreds of motorcycle and bicycle helmets for both regulatory certification and forensic investigation. He serves on the ASTM F08.53 Headgear Subcommittee and has presented helmet research to the American Society for Testing and Materials, the AAAM Annual Conference, and the Los Angeles Police Department's Multidisciplinary Collision Investigation Team. This combined expertise allows Tyler to evaluate not only how a motorcycle collision occurred, but how and why the resulting injuries were sustained.
He has performed and supported instrumented motorcycle crash testing, and authored and contributed to peer-reviewed publications on motorcycle reconstruction and rider safety, including:
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Quantifying Engine Braking for Various Common Street Motorcycles
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The Effects of Power Interruption on Electronic Needle-Display Motorcycle Speedometers
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An Analysis of EDR Data in Kawasaki Ninja 300 (EX300) Motorcycles
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Biomechanic Analysis of Injury Mitigation Performance for Novel Helmet Design
Tyler holds a Master of Science in Bioengineering with a Biomechanics emphasis and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, both from San Diego State University.
