Total Control

Lee parks, racers, one of the most accomplished riders, authors and instructors in the world, helps riders master the awe-inspiring performance potential of modern motorcycles. Today's super high-performance bikes are the most potent vehicles ever sold to the public and they demand advanced riding skills.

Get it right, and a modern motorcycle will provide you with the thrill of a lifetime; get it wrong and you'll be carted off in a meat wagon. This is the perfect book for riders who want to take their street riding skills to a higher level. Total control provides you with the information you need to stay on the healthy side of that line, providing a training course developed and perfected through decades of professional training in Lee Parks' Total Control Advanced Riding Clinic.

A completely revised version of one of the best-selling motorcycle riding skills books of all time. High quality photos, and professional diagrams highlight the intricacies and proper techniques of street riding and the knowledge gained will apply to all brands of bikes from Harley-Davidson and Suzuki to Ducati and Kawaski to Honda and BMW and more! Readers will come away with a better understanding of everything from braking and cornering to proper throttle control, detailed instructions, resulting in a more exhilarating yet safer ride.

Total control explains the ins and outs of high-performance street riding. This book gives riders everything they need to develop the techniques and survival skills necessary to become a proficient, accomplished, and safer street rider. The line between ecstasy and agony is so thin that there is absolutely no margin for error.

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A Twist of the Wrist II: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding

Code lays out the seven knee jerk 'Survival Reactions' which every rider has experienced and clearly describes how they are, in every case, contrary to good technique. Keith code's a twist of the Wrist II describes with precision the essential riding techniques that all riders need to understand. Motorcycles weren't designed by opinions or good advice and riding them is the same.

His california superbike schools have run in seventeen countries at one hundred and eleven tracks and are the number one school in all of them. A world wide best-seller since its publication and translated into seven languages, this go-to book for all motorcyclists from weekend riders to racers is now available in eBook format for your convenience.

The book contains twenty-six chapters of exact procedures which address: Rider input, Steering, Body Position, Braking, Throttle Control, Precision Visual Skills, Lines, the different types of Traction and much more. A twist of the wrist ii is based on code's vast experience: acknowledged worldwide, Keith has trained and coached more riders and more champions than anyone else in the history of the sport.

. It is the first book to describe these and goes on to define, in step-by-step detail, the proper technical skills necessary to overcome them. Having good technical riding skills allows riders to conquer their fears and overcome their barriers to cornering.


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A Twist of the Wrist: The Motorcycle Road Racers Handbook

Notes and comments by Eddie Lawson. Translated into more than a dozen languages the demand for translation continues. Today, riders around the globe are riding faster, safer and with more confidence thanks to the step-by-step theory contained in this book. A world-wide best seller since it first year of publication, A Twist of the Wrist has been read and re-read by street riders, novice racers and national and world champions.

Here's everything you need to successfully improve your riding whether you are a novice or veteran, cruiser to sportbike rider. This book contains the very foundation skills for any rider looking for more confidence when cornering a motorcycle. Foreword by Wayne Rainey.


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Mastering the Ride: More Proficient Motorcycling, 2nd Edition

Best-selling author david hough is the anti-bad ass of motorcyclists, a serious down-to-earth master of two- and three- wheeled street rods who is interested in the safety and road smarts of his fellow motorcyclists. The book devotes two full chapters to the skills involved in mastering cornering, shifting, countersteering, braking, with specific advice about rolling on and off the throttle, body steering and positioning, and cornering lines.

In the chapter “mastering the art of conspicuity, that is understanding how motorcyclists and car drivers see their surroundings and getting others to see you on the road by use of hi-viz clothing, ” Hough recommends riders understand and employ conspicuity, LED lights, and other gear. As eric trow, a motorcycle safety journalist and instructor states on the back cover, “Mastering the Ride should be required reading for every road-going motorcyclist and become the companion of any rider serious about advancing his or her road craft.

Voni glaves, the record-setting million-mile bmw rider, is a long-time Hough fan who relied on Hough’s “wisdom” back in the 1970s when the author was a columnist. With instructional color photographs and drawings, from treacherous tar snakes to lane-weaving drivers; and learning the limits of sight distances, and city streets; anticipating and handling street and road hazards, the book covers improving the rider’s skills of speed and passing on superslabs, mountain roads, executing quick stops at sudden hazards as well as curves.

Mastering the ride is his follow-up book to one that put him on the map, Proficient Motorcycling, and it goes one better. Thanks to hough’s direct and specific instructions to riders for what they need to know, and to do every time they get on their bikes, to avoid, to improve, this chapter and the skills it describes are nothing short of life-saving.

In short, after all is read and done, mastering the Ride is a crash course in how not to crash—that is, what every motorcyclists must avoid for his own life and the lives of others on the road.


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Maximum Control

This book is aimed at helping owners of such motorcycles--bikes with big engines, long wheelbases, and a lot of weight--get the best ride out of them. Maximum control addresses every aspect of riding--steering, positioning, braking, and carrying a passenger or heavy load. They have different centers of gravity; they steer more slowly; they put you in a different riding positions; and riding one--especially riding it well--requires different skills.

As anyone who’s been on one knows, big bikes--Harleys, tourers, dressers, cruisers--handle differently than smaller bikes. The outcome will be, as promised, Maximum Control--and the ride of your life. With clear information on differences in equipment--brakes, even tires--this expert, drive system, engine, accessible guide provides everything you need to know to handle your bike like a pro.

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Motorcycle Roadcraft - The Police Rider's Handbook

It's essential reading if you want to develop your riding ability and safety to a more advanced level. This new edition has been revised, updated and redesigned to include best practice in police riding. It's been guided by a working group of experienced instructors from the police and other emergency services, who have consulted widely with civilian and academic experts.

Motorcycle roadcraft is packed with:• tips and techniques to help you reduce the risks that all riders face from the actions of other road users• advice on managing the personal tendencies, states of mind, emotions and sources of stress that could put you at risk even before you get on your machine• updated information on techniques for cornering safely• comprehensive explanations and advice to raise your riding abilities to a new level• eco-riding tips to reduce your fuel consumption• lively full colour illustrations and diagrams to explain the key principles and techniques for better riding.

The new edition features:• new chapters on slow speed manoeuvring and emergency response riding• learning points clearly set out for individual learning or formal instruction• self-assessment questions throughout to help you improve your riding safety. Motorcycle roadcraft is the police handbook for rider training, used by all the emergency services and a key reference for all riding instructors.

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Race Tech's Motorcycle Suspension Bible: Dirt, Street and Track Motorbooks Workshop

Thede gives a clear account of the three forces of suspension that you must understand to make accurate assessments of your suspension’s condition. Based on paul thede’s wildly popular race tech Suspension Seminars, or their kid’s, this step-by-step guide shows anyone how to make their bike, handle like a pro’s.

. He outlines testing procedures that will help you gauge how well you’re improving your suspension, along with your riding. Suspension is probably the most misunderstood aspect of motorcycle performance. Finally, step-by-step photos of suspension disassembly and assembly help you rebuild your forks and shocks for optimum performance.

This book, by america’s premier suspension specialist, makes the art and science of suspension tuning accessible to professional and backyard motorcycle mechanics alike. The book even provides detailed troubleshooting guides for dirt, street, and supermoto--promising a solution to virtually any handling problem.

And, if you’re inclined to perfect your bike’s handling, he even explains the black art of chassis geometry.


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Street Rider's Guide: Street Strategies for Motorcyclists Motorcycle Consumer News

Covering topics from a to z, street rider’s guide is the new go-to handbook for motorcyclists who want quick solutions to nearly 100 commonly encountered obstacles and road challenges, what safety experts like Hough call increasing a rider’s “situational awareness. As hough writes in the introduction, “…the most important way to avoiding crashes is to figure out what’s happening.

While many books exist on the market for riders looking to improve their ride or get better control of their bikes, no book out there is dedicated to helping riders develop their situational awareness, which is the most critical skill a rider can have. Inside street rider’s guidealphabetically arranged topics from “alley acumen” to “zone Woes”Short descriptions of over 80 critical situations selected by the authorExpert tips about how to recognize oncoming hazards and how to avoid themEach entry accompanied by a color photograph to illustrate real-life situation.

A completely revised and updated edition of david hough’s successful book Street Strategies, the all-new Street Rider’s Guide spells out safety tactics for motorcycle riders looking to get the most out of their favorite hobby…for as long as possible.


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How to Ride Off-Road Motorcycles

Chapters cover the basics, turning, such as body position, and throttle control, then proceed to advanced techniques, jumps, wheelies, hill-climbing, such as sliding, braking, and more. If you've ever wanted to try dirt riding or if you're an experienced rider looking to sharpen your skill set, How to Ride Off-Road Motorcycles is a perfect riding coach.

Off-road riding is one of motorcycling's most popular pursuits and also one of its best training grounds for improving street-riding skills. Off-road riding takes many forms, from motocross and enduro racing, to trail riding, to dual-sport day trips, to adventure tours. No matter the specific pursuit, all dirt riding and much street riding shares the same basic skill set.

How to ride off-road motorcycles schools the reader in all the skills necessary to ride safely and quickly off-road.


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How your motorcycle works

The text is accompanied by superb cutaway illustrations from the major motorcycle manufacturers, clearly showing how individual components and systems function. It assumes no prior mechanical knowledge, simply an interest in a motorcycle’s workings, and an open mind. In an ever more competitive market, manufacturers are looking for new solutions to old problems – what’s the most efficient transmission? How can emissions and fuel consumption be cut without affecting power? And how can new models be differentiated from one another?This book explains how the modern motorcycle works, in a straightforward style that’s jargon-free and easy to read.

No longer the simple machines they used to be, the modern motorcycle is as complex and diverse as the modern car. It covers the latest innovations, including traction control and pushbutton gear change, as well as long-established technologies, such as fuel injection and ABS. How your motorcycle works will not transform you into a motorcycle engineer or expert mechanic, and thus enjoyment, but in explaining precisely how everything works, it will increase your understanding, of the machine.

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Motorcycle Mastery: Advanced Techniques for the Smart Rider

Written by an advanced motorcycle instructor with thirty-five years of daily riding under his belt, Motorcycle Mastery is written for riders who would like to take their riding to the next level. It is a commonly-held belief that riding well begins and ends with control of your machine. Far more important are the skills necessary for truly being the master of our environment; for negotiating our way through the hazards we face every day out on the road in a safe, competent and masterly efficient manner.

It is these skills that are presented in Motorcycle Mastery. The author contends that mere control of your machine — while a necessary skill — is a small part of what it takes to be a competent, most importantly, well-rounded, and, a safe rider. Beginning with some basic control skills to lay the foundation, the author then takes us through more and more advanced techniques not taught in common motorcycle license courses with a view to really honing our skill level, and making us the very best riders we can be.

Observation•visibility•positioning•planning•observation links•The System for Safe Motorcycle Riding•Safe Passing•Group Riding•Road hazards•Riding in Hazardous Conditions•And more….


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