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Summary: The best motorcycle tutorial book around.
Review: ...and I've read them all. The one from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation pales in comparison to this one. The technical information is in both of them, but this one is easy to read. The other one will put you to sleep right quick. David Hough also has many interesting anecdotes from his 30+ years of motorcycling that you don't get in a sanitary book like the one from the MSF. I'm sorry to crack on it so much, but that book reads like an Algebra text. With this book and some practice, you will do very well in your motorcycling career. Just make sure you take it seriously, practice, and keep it in the bathroom to be reread frequently. There are very few books out there that have within them the capability to save your life. This is one of them.
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Summary: A must read for new motorcycle riders
Review: This book is full of information useful to motorcycle riders, expecially beginners. Hopefully it will make the risk of riding my bike less due to my inexperience. It closely follows the information gained by taking the MSF rider safety course.
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Summary: A rider's must !
Review: This is probably the best book about riding motorcycles and safety. It covers many topics ranging from helmet wearing to trajectories, rain,... and tries, with success, to put into the reader's mind good automatism and habits. It avoids the simple aproaches found in other books and gives smart and technical advices on riding safely. If there is one motorcycling book a rider should read, it is this one.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: Outstanding..... this pretty much sums up "Proficient Motorcycling". This book should be read by EVERYONE who operates a motorcycle. In fact, it should probably be reread at least once a year to reinforce the ideas presented here.Keith
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Summary: Essential Reading
Review: Simply put, if you ride or want to be a motorcyclist, you MUST read this book. It explains so many of the mysterious things about why a motorcycle does what it does when under many different circumstances. If you want to understand your bike and improve your skills and style, don't miss this well-written and edited manual.
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Summary: This is the ultimate guide
Review: Whether you are a rank beginner or have experience riding, you will find a lot of useful information in this book. It is well organized and offers a lot of examples to make the information relative to the real world. It gives good practice techniques for learning and improving your riding ability. The information in this book enabled me to go from novice to passing my license on the first try. If you want to become a good, safe, proficient rider, this is the book that will do it.
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Summary: The Best Book on Motorcycling I've Read!
Review: I've read a number of books on Motorcycling including the Idiot's Guide, the Motorcycle Safetys book on Motorcycling Excellence, etc. Mr. Hough's book is, in my opinion, the best written and has the most useful information. He gives some exercises to improve skills and he cites studies to back up his recommendations to reduce the risks inherent in motorcycle riding. I've reread his book several times and always learn something new. When anyone asks me for a reference book on motorcylcing this is the one I suggest first!
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Summary: Survival Manual for Beginner or Expert
Review: For a moment let's assume you've been told tomorrow you'll have to jump out of an airplane. Would you be interested in a book on skydiving? I'm not a skydiver, but I am a motorcyclist. I'm willing to bet that staying alive on a motorcycle is considerably more challenging than surviving a parachute jump. Yet for some reason many people think of skydiving as serious, dangerous stuff but motorcycling as bicycling without having to peddle. Funny thing, you can die just as dead from a misadventure motorcycling as one skydiving. So here is your survival manual. Want to read it? "Proficient Motorcycling" is written from the viewpoint of a veteran motorcyclist who has seen most of it, and heard about the rest from fellow survivors. It is a thoughtful treatise on how you can get off your motorcycle with the same number of arms and legs as when you got on it. It isn't just "do this -- don't do that". The book gets into the meat of what makes a motorcycle work, and how you can make it do what you want - and need - to do. The advice is clearly stated, but also explained. Simply understanding how a motorcycle steers and goes around a corner is vitally important. It is not at all a simple subject, but the key points are explored here, and that knowledge is tied back to the practicalities of keeping the rubber side down. Brakes - what's to understand about brakes? You put on the brakes - you stop! Nope, not that easy. If a half-second is the difference between living and dying, you need to know a LOT more about brakes. Maneuvering in traffic, highway strategies, riding in the rain, traveling in groups, contending with kamikaze dogs - there is a lot of ground to cover, and "Proficient Motorcycling" manages to do it and do it well. This is more than a beginners' book. Understand, it is a GREAT beginners' book. It should come with every new motorcycle sold. But the veteran rider will find it even more fascinating than the beginner. Having been in the war zone, the experienced rider will relate to the story being told here. Few riders will come away without new insight. As with any complex topic, there are areas where experts disagree. The author points out where there are disagreements, and why, and then gives his take on the issue. You may or may not agree with his reasoning, but you will definitely think about it, and come away better informed. Good book. Could save your life. Buy it. Ed Bianchi
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Summary: Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well
Review: This book is the next best thing...if you haven't had the opportunity to experience the MSF Class! And even if you have taken the MSF class...this book is a must read! Excellent!
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Summary: Perfect for those returning to cycling
Review: Having recently returned to motorcycling after many years, this book was a perfect review of safety and proper riding techniques. Very easy to read and understand. Excellent!
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