Here's everything you need to successfully improve your riding, 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. Notes and comments by Eddie Lawson. Foreword by Wayne Rainey.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Gary Hayes
Format:Paperback
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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book puts many techniques familiar to experienced riders in a technical context such that it becomes easier to improve your riding and analyse and change bad habits. New riders will gain an enormity from reading it too. It is highly recommended to take the knowledge learned from these pages to a track and apply the techniques in a safe yet challenging environment.
If you have the patience to stay with Mr. Code's oblique approach to the subject you will learn not only a treasure trove of techniques but also the fundamental tools of analysis to be able to continue improving on your own.
If you have the patience to stay with Mr. Code's oblique approach to the subject you will learn not only a treasure trove of techniques but also the fundamental tools of analysis to be able to continue improving on your own.
Get this book (or Twist II) and revisit it again and again, you will probably never need another text on riding.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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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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2.0 out of 5 stars
The book that should be a 10 page pamphlet
Keith Code, I am sure, is as great as everyone says he is, and I am sure training with him would be a top shelf experience. But "A Twist of the Wrist" is not a good book. Read more
Published 1 day ago by M. E. Drummond
2.0 out of 5 stars
not for street riders
I bought this book hoping it would give me some skills for sport touring but found it only benefits track riders unless you ride the same roads and canyons where you can pick none... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Don B
2.0 out of 5 stars
Really not worth buying if been riding for over 3 months
For people who have no experience in riding, reading this book may be helpful since it shows the basic ideas of riding with pictures. Read more
Published on Sep 18 2002
3.0 out of 5 stars
For Novice and Intermediate Racers
This race-oriented book focuses on providing a methodology to analyse any racetrack allowing you to select and ride the lines that best suit you and your bike. Read more
Published on July 13 2000 by Phil Kelsey
2.0 out of 5 stars
A real mixed bag
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... Read more
Published on Jan 14 2000
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is an excellent source of information for all riders
As an experiance rider, I found the information contained in this book to be excellent. From braking, steering, handling curves, attention span... Read more
Published on Jan 1 2000 by D. Levy
4.0 out of 5 stars
The bible of motorcycle racing.
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... Read more
Published on Oct 5 1999
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book for Racing, Ok for Real World Application
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. Read more
Published on Mar 25 1999
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good basic racetrack stuff, but a bit too "Cosmic" in areas
The book does a decent job of introducing the starting racetrack pilot to the basic concepts of corner types, throttle application, etc. Read more
Published on Mar 24 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent guide to motorcycle riding technique.
Keith Code teaches you to read the road. He explains camber, radius, series of turns, elevation (uphill, downhill, crested track) and straight sections. Read more
Published on Jan 8 1999 by roadieroger@earthlink.net
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