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Title: A Twist of the Wrist 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding by Keith Code ISBN: 0-9650450-2-1 Publisher: Code Break Books Pub. Date: July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (53 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth putting up with
Comment: There are some excellent ideas in here. Whether you've just started riding or have been doing it for years it will help you think objectively and scientifically about a motorcycle as a physical system. From this understanding of the dynamics of a motorcycle during cornering, acceleration and braking you will be able to better understand and manage manouvers on the road or track.
The downside of the book is a bizarre fascination with jargon, and annoying definitions of perfectly commonplace words. (I can only wonder if Code picked this up from Scientology, as L. Ron Hubbard is credited in the front matter.)
There is also a considerable emphasis in the examples and photographs on the track rather than the road, but all the lessons carry across well. None of the lessons will require you to have a race bike. All the necessary parts: braking, acceleration and cornering are covered, though you'll need to look to other books for discussion of road surface, traffic, street signs, weather, and so on.
Nevertheless. Ignore the annoying parts; buy it and read it. I'm pretty confident you will be a safer and (optionally) faster rider afterwards.
Rating: 5
Summary: Riding fast...simple!
Comment: I have applied Keith Code's riding technology successfully for over 16 years now and the more I read of it the more it makes sense, the faster I go and the more fun I have. Let's be honest, every motorcycle rider on the planet wants to go faster. Sure, we need to make sure that we all have control over our bikes and that the activity of riding motorcycles is as safe as possible, but the reality is that being safe never 'turned-on' anyone!
After reading Keiths' first book "A Twist of the Wrist" in 1984 it totally changed my life. I was at the time a struggling 'C' grade racer and really enjoyed my riding, but after crashing 13 times in my first 18 months of racing, my enthusiasm was beginning to wane. I wonder why! After reading that book, riding finally started to make sense to me. It seemed that Keith had read every thought in my mind and then written them down to present my errors to the world and use me as a personal example so he could show how to fix the problems. Of course I was imagining this...or was I?
I have since learned that almost every rider has the same basic questions and the same basic problems. In fact it is amazing how similar riders problems are, regardless of skill level or experience. So what was bugging me also bugged a lot of other riders too. To cut a long story short...after applying Keith's information religously and drilling it for the next year, I went back to racing and won in excess of 100 races in my career, including at Australian Championship level. I set 9 lap records in two classes, won three state championships and had only 7 crashes (including 2 mechanical failures, and two other riders hitting me) over the next 16 years. Some contrast hey!
When "A Twist of the Wrist II" came out, I bought it with high expectations and Keith delivered over and above those expectations once again. The text is clear and concise. It covers real world issues that every motorcycle rider faces. It presents the simplicity of riding a motorcycle well instead of shrouding it in the mystery of complex explainations. I wondered what benefit I could gain as a rider (after all...what's the point if it just makes you sound smarter...it's got to work on the bike too) and once again the information transferred into faster and safer riding.
There are not many 'sure things' in this world. For me, Keith Codes' books are one of those sure things. Read them. Ride using the information contained in them. And watch your riding improve!
Rating: 3
Summary: Code's most useful text for street riders
Comment: "Twist II" contains the most useful information to street riders, out of Code's three "twist"-series books. ("Twist of the Wrist" and "Soft Science" are decidedly more racetrack-oriented books and aren't really applicable for street riding, but if you race then those will be useful to you!) Code's discussion of Survival Reactions or "SR's", and his explanation of the results of applying certain inputs (brake, throttle, steering) to your motorcycle, in various situations, are the two most useful topics of this book, and are worth the price alone, whether you race on a track or ride on the street (and make sure you never confuse the two! ;-)
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Title: A Twist of the Wrist: The Motorcycle Road Racers Handbook by Keith Code, Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey ISBN: 0965045013 Publisher: Code Break Books Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Sport Riding Techniques: How To Develop Real World Skills for Speed, Safety, and Confidence on the Street and Track by Nick Ienatsch ISBN: 1893618072 Publisher: David Bull Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Total Control: High-Performance Street Riding Techniques by Lee Parks, Darwin Holmstrom ISBN: 0760314039 Publisher: MBI Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Soft Science of Road Racing Motorcycles by Keith Code ISBN: 096504503X Publisher: Code Break Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Proficient Motorcycling : The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well by David L. Hough ISBN: 1889540536 Publisher: Bowtie Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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