Sport Riding Techniques: How To Develop Real World Skills for Speed, Safety, and Confidence on the Street and Track
by Nick Ienatsch
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Author: Nick IenatschForeword: Kenny Roberts
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03-01
ISBN: 1893618072
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: David Bull Publishing
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Book Review: If you buy only one motorcycle skills book -this is the one to buy
Summary: 5 Stars
I own a variety of sport and general riding technique books. I started with the horribly-written Keith Code books which I thought were the greatest thing since sliced bread when they first came out (because there was nothing else that I could find like them at the time). I have the David Hough books and a smattering of other motorcycle skill-enhancing books by other authors. Nothing compares to "Sport Riding Techniques."
Nick Ienatsch is a top-notch motorcycle racer, and track-school coach who knows what he is talking about when it comes to technique -but so was Keith Code and his books, while full of sage advice, were pedantic at best. Code's "Twist of the Wrist" can be literally painful to read. Ienatsch, in addition to being a highly skilled racer, rider, and top instructor at the Freddie Spencer Superbike School, is also a highly skilled writer and moto-journalist who has been writing about motorcycles professionally for decades. Writing for a motorcycle magazine has taught him how to write in an entertaining but down-to-earth manner which makes him the ideal person to write a book detailing just exactly what is going on when a rider has mastered the techniques that not only allow you to go fast on a racetrack, but keep you alive on the street.
Ienatsch separates the track from the street in his writing. He plainly tells it like it is that certain techniques are best left to the safety of a track and not for the everyday world of gravel in the corners, wildlife on the road, and cell-phone talking teenagers driving daddy's car the other way. While these skills are very useful to master, he explains that hanging off and other racetrack techniques will only get you going way too fast for street conditions and draw attention to you from the constabulary. They are best reserved for the track, or when needed in an emergency when you need to draw from your safety margin when things go completely toes-up on the street. Nick is the author of the highly-acclaimed motorcycle magazine article "The Pace" in which he details the way to treat riding on the street in a responsible and fun manner and stay alive. He has ridden with many other moto-journalists and seen many of them crash and get seriously hurt -even killed. He knows that one needs to ride "The Pace" to stay alive on the street. He is down to earth when telling which techniques are for the track, and what lessons we can learn from that and apply to the public roads.
The book is not only superbly written and detail a step-by-step approach to understanding what makes a motorcycle turn, stop and accelerate right to the theoretical limits, but it does it in a beautifully presented coffee table worthy book with tons of very high quality photos and prints inside. All the pages throughout are glossy and the text is immaculately laid out and printed. Even if this book were like the fluff that most other motorcycle self-help/technique books are, it would still be beautiful and worthy of collecting just to page through the pictures and feel the wonderful glossy pages turn under your fingers. It's that nice of a book.
The fact that it is so much more than just a pretty coffee table book is almost gravy. For $25 you can't buy anything else for your bike or your gearbag that will give such a return on its investment. There are no go-fast farkles or safety gadgets that will yield such a benifit for your riding and safety as this book. It should be in every rider's library. Get it and read it. It might just save your life, or at least make it that much more enjoyable when you are out on two wheels.
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Summary of Sport Riding Techniques: How To Develop Real World Skills for Speed, Safety, and Confidence on the Street and Track
Contemporary sport bikes accelerate faster, brake harder, and cut through corners deeper than ever before. These technologically advanced motorcycles are exhilarating to ride, but to really get the most out of a motorcycle?s performance capabilities a rider must develop his or her own personal performance. Riders need to take their skills to the next level. Now, in this book written specifically for sport riders, well-known journalist, racer, and riding school instructor Nick Ienatsch provides the tools and techniques to help riders analyze and develop that personal performance. If you?re an experienced rider, Nick will help you hone and perfect your skills, operate controls with even greater finesse, and apply race-proven techniques on the track?as well as on the street. If you?re a beginning rider, Nick will show you how to develop proper skills and safety habits that will add to your motorcycling enjoyment and build your confidence. Whatever your current riding ability, Nick will teach you to safely find the absolute limit of bike and rider.Motorcycles Books
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