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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2275
EAN num: 9780760314036
ISBN number: 0760314039
Label: Motorbooks
Manufacturer: Motorbooks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: July 12, 2003
Publishing house: Motorbooks
Sale Popularity Level: 28063
Studio: Motorbooks
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Today's super high-performance bikes are the most potent vehicles ever sold to the public and they demand advanced riding skills. This is the perfect book for riders who want to take their street riding skills to a higher level. Total Control explains the ins and outs of high-performance street riding. Lee Parks, one of the most accomplished riders, racers, authors and instructors in the world, helps riders master the awe-inspiring performance potential of modern motorcycles.This book gives riders everything they need to develop the techniques and survival skills necessary to become a proficient, accomplished, and safer street rider. High quality photos, detailed instructions, and professional diagrams highlight the intricacies and proper techniques of street riding. Readers will come away with a better understanding of everything from braking and cornering to proper throttle control, resulting in a more exciting yet safer ride.
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Whether you are into sport bikes, racing, cruising, or whatever. If its on the street with 2 wheels and a motor, you need to get this book! The closest you'll come to having a one on one coach. Practice sessions are all worked out. Shows you how to critique your own performance. Skills on turning, body position, shifting, braking, and how to get the most efficiency out of your riding. How to go faster safely, and handling your bike on the road. It is ALL in here!
Think you know how to ride? Ready for that track day? Grab this book very first and show yourself a few MORE new things you never knew. Though this book is for more advanced riders, newer riders will benefit by learning better habits, and breaking bad ones.
Get it, get it, get it!!
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If you ride a sport bike and want to learn to lean it correctly/safely around curves, fast without jerks and changes in the arch, this is the best specialized book for you! Learn about the common reasons people crash like you have never heard it before--why we panic and what that causes, which ultimately results in a crash. And how to overcome it! Great book.
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Purchased the book for my son whose passion is riding his sportbike on the track and hopefully race in the future. Read portions of the book myself and I have to recommend it to all who are sportbike aficionados. The book is to the point - dead center. Gives great pointers, helps you understand what you may be unable to articulate. Great read!
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I very first read "A Twist of the Wrist 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding", then I read this book. I greatly appreciated Twist of the Wrist for providing the geeky details and well-written descriptions of what was happening to the bike and rider when everything is working correctly (or not), but this book was able to add some more pictures that helped to clarify things which weren't clear to me from Twist of the Wrist.
There were some descriptions in Total Control that resonated better with me than what was in Twist of the Wrist, and vice versa. The same thing can be said for the drawings and pictures.
My recommendation: buy both books. If you don't like reading very much and want better step-by-step pictures, then Total Control is probably the better book for you. Once again, I strongly recommend buying both books - Total Control and Twist of the Wrist 2.
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"Total Control" isn't the pinnacle of riding techniques. Hough's "Proficient Motorcycling," (both of them) and Ienatsch's "Sport Bike Ridng Techniques" are the hands-down winners in that respect. However, the book has some worthwhile content that other books don't cover. As a secondary source, it is well worth price. Some of his scrunched-up portrait photos would have a buzzard turn around and fly the other way.
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