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Summary: A real mixed bag
Review: As an experiance rider, I found the information contained in this book to be excellent. From braking, steering, handling curves, attention span...I strongly recommend this book to all riders regardless of level.
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Summary: This is an excellent source of information for all riders
Review: As an experiance rider, I found the information contained in this book to be excellent. From braking, steering, handling curves, attention span... I strongly recommend this book to all riders regardless of level.
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Summary: Great teaching strategy
Review: Can you improve yer motorcycle riding skills by reading a book? No doubt about it. Keith Code is founder and director of California Superbike Cornering Schools and has published a number of books on the subject of racing motorcycles on speed tracks. Although most of this book's focus is on handling race bikes, only the last two of its sixteen chapters are exclusively dedicated to racing. The book concentrates mostly on better controlling your speed while maneuvering your bike over varying racetrack conditions. As you'd expect, there is a major emphasis on turning: getting through the turn with increased mph and decreased time spent in [the turn] and [maintaining] adequate control of the bike.
Code's overall approach to improving riding skills is to define the basics, and then to investigate the decisions you must make to ride well. He uses a great analogy: Each person has a fixed amount of attention while riding a motorcycle. This is represented as a $10 bill worth of attention. If you spend five dollars of it on one aspect of riding, you have only five dollars left for all the other aspects. Spend nine and you have only one dollar left, and so on. The aspects of riding he talks about are things like:
Road characteristics: Constant-, increasing-, and. decreasing-radius turns, crested turns, series turns, positive- and negative-camber turns, and road surfaces. What you do: Riding is one thing; riding plus being aware of what you are doing is quite another. Making an effort to look at what you are doing while you are doing it.
Your own evaluation of what you just did and what just happened: Things that can be thought over and changed if necessary. I like his teaching strategy. After isolating several specific principles, concepts, and techniques, each subsequent chapter effectively builds on what was previously presented to the point that if you didn't understand the concept and haven't yet experienced it,
you'll want to get back on the road and try it out, read the book some more, then evaluate what you understand. The books's worth buying.
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Summary: Really not worth buying if been riding for over 3 months
Review: For people who have no experience in riding, reading this book may be helpful since it shows the basic ideas of riding with pictures. However, once you started riding, almost all things mentioned in this book will be understood/felt via little experience. I will recommend saving your money and take your bike to the race track a couple times after you ride for 6 months. You will learn a lot on the race track in a safe manner; you also learn how well your bike can handle those turns you think it can never make.
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Summary: The bible of motorcycle racing.
Review: I am a new rider with only 600 miles of riding in me and on a 500cc sportbike. But several friends who have raced superbike told me this is the bible of racing and to read it soon so I learn the right things from the get go. I also bought the video. From a novice viewpoint the book reads well and the concepts make sense but only practice will make perfect. It is a pratice manual and I will no doubt read it several times before I ever upgrade to 600cc or 1000cc and go to the California Superbike School.
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Summary: A real mixed bag
Review: I was overall very disappointed with this book, allowing for some of the content to be for racers only I was surprised at seeing content most motorcyclists would be aware of from monthly bike magazines, i.e. counter steering, braking techniques etc. Keith Code is a very knowledgable man on this subject but his writing style is really dreadful, his use of BOLD text and regular underlining gets to be really annoying.I've now completed the book and as an average sports bike rider have learned absolutely nothing new. It may appeal to you but my advice would be to borrow a copy and read a few chapters before purchasing.
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Summary: A Twist Of The Wrist
Review: Keith Code's book A Twist Of The Wrist is the essential book for the motorcycle road racer, or a motocross racer. The indepth detail of the book is a big help. From counter steering to braking, the book is excellent. This book gets a 5 star! Recommended to any motorcycle road racer or motocrosser.
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Summary: Good basic racetrack stuff, but a bit too "Cosmic" in areas
Review: The book does a decent job of introducing the starting racetrack pilot to the basic concepts of corner types, throttle application, etc. Despite the fact that these topics are addressed, I felt there was a bit too much offbeat "Dianetics" style mentality references, and not enough specific "nuts and bolts" instruction on HOW to do the actual act of riding the motorcycle. Having read the Vol.I and II, I think a new racer would be best off saving their money on this book, and getting only the Vol. II version. This book is targeted primarily at the racetrack environment, and I've found that the book "Sportbiking: The Real World: The Advanced Riders Handbook", is better suited for true street going sportbikers.
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Summary: A Twist of the Wrist
Review: The book is simply fantastic! It presents sensational tactics and with an absolutely amazing clarity. I really recommend the reading of this wonderful book!
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Summary: Great book for Racing, Ok for Real World Application
Review: This book contained alot of great information for the Track. A lot of the information can be direclty applied to going fast on the street. However, this primarily deals with track condtions. It doesn't go into poor road conditions, like ripples and how to deal with them. If you're looking for a Book that teaches you how to go fast on Daytona tarmac, then this is your book. If you wanna learn racing technique to apply to street riding, it's all here. But for information about Street situations, get another book.
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