Hey guys is there any good bike books out there that you just don't want to put down once you start reading? Like some sort of great sport bike ride or something....

Twist of the Wrist...Keith Code.I and II

* Last updated by: blue07 on 2/13/2011 @ 11:36 AM *

Agreed Blue, read alot of material over the years but I always go back to the Twist of the Wrist.........

Have not read but have been hearing about it for years before I got the Ninja. KC wrote the sport bike bible.

Nice! Thanks guys I'm all over it.....I need something to slide away and forget the BS for a while....I just took the family away some place warm and it's such a great change but now I'm wanting my baby bad seeing nothing but sun....:::::)

Total Control by Lee Parks

Yep...another good one.

sportbike riding techniques by nick ienatsch -the best sportbike primer on riding ever written.
David Hough wrote the 3 most read and respected street riding books- proficient motorcycling volume 1 and 2 and street strategies
sportbike performance handbook kevin cameron
Sportbike Suspension Tuning andrew trevitt
less techinal and just fun reads are:
leanings 1 and 2 peter egan
road tales by ClemSalvadori
one man caravan robert fultonJr.
top dead center kevin Cameron
all of these are great books.

* Last updated by: alaskarider on 2/14/2011 @ 3:38 PM *

http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html

Great post hub. ""IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME." says it all - for a lot of folks on this forum. I think you are in that group for sure.

A couple more good reads.

Smooth riding the Pridmore way by Reg Pridmore
The soft science of road racing motorcycles by Wayne Rainey
Sport Riding techniques by Nick Ienatsch

Twist of the wrist 1 and 2 and Total control as mentioned earlier are good reads as well.

http://www.webbikeworld.com/Motorcycle-books/Motorcycle-books.htm

I guess I clicked and bought a bathroom reader. Used, very good condition. Here in 4 to 7 days. I just want to scramble through it and then..... AND THEN!!!!!!!! LOL

Make haste slowly,the Mike Duff story by Michelle Duff,a great read about racing in the 60's with a strange end

* Last updated by: darryle on 2/16/2011 @ 4:09 PM *

I just ordered Twist the wrist and got sucked into the Ring of Fire a book about Rossi....Have them in 2 to 3 days...Hopfully they will help get me threw till this snow melts.

Somefun, I'm going to have some fun if that book does not hold true. Just like the dildough is payback time. Too many guys with too many stories. The stories I've heard, you'd be jaw dropping with eyes wide open the behind the book, magazine, video kind of stories.

The cheating that never happened because you hear the other side of the story/situation and the [politics] of it. I wish I could talk to the other guy about this memorable moment. I wasn't as hard a getaway as this guy. I mean, when I saw it on film and how I squirted away, it was even harder on the other guy because he would tap you in the weeds.

If mirror dot means anything, it was in the rain when there was more HP under the front runners and now the field is more even kind of. No shit that was some fast fill in the blank.

http://www.ttwebsite.com/features/0280.php Twisthishewristears

Received the book today. I really didn't know how many years this guy had been racing? He's raced for well over 30 years. I guess I heard of him like the other names. Heck, my racing was short compared to his. He seemed to follow in the same rain steps as I did. He crashed first time out in the rain and so did I. He was 14 or 15, I was 17. In 1955 he began racing and never stopped it seems.

WE were all even in the rain dance of it. I was 2 years green and in my late 20's when I tried racing. If you are not hitting the tracks at 3 or 4 years old and winning, you do not have a chance because those days are over you start out in your late teens. Lorenso is a perfect example like Rossi. Hayden's are in the same camp as kids growing up racing.

Freddie Spenser was the writing on the wall. No matter. I proved to myself I could run wit them there shewhackeyuck-yucks. Even seems we have some things in common where he came from the back to win. He said it was rewarding and say it was rewarding for me to Paz IS Azz like rained on his parade I wish I had the $$$ to front the same shit pile he was on. Either way, I was happy to shit on the pile he was on. Maybe it was something near and deer to him is dear oh dear if you only knew... Yuck-Yuck-Yuck!

got sucked into the Ring of Fire a book about Rossi

Got that one here too. Just haven't had a chance to set down and start reading it. I'm a big VR fan, been following him since the 250 days (have never watched the 125s much, too hard to keep trying to remember to record them at 1:00AM on Tuesday morning).

I have keith codes twist of the wrist I and II and The soft science of road racing motorcycles by Wayne Rainey. All great reading. Im reading Twist of the Wrist II now for the second time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiVCbMlXxNM&feature=related

* Last updated by: Hub on 2/28/2011 @ 2:53 AM *

heathun... Which book out of that list had decent info? Exclude Code's books, I should have added.

* Last updated by: Hub on 2/28/2011 @ 9:56 AM *

Well, it's no Mario Puzo book I can't put it down. More like put down. One exercise is to feel the brake pads hit the discs and now begin to brake? I would think it is more linear instead of two-stepping, but WOT do I know.

Physically, this guy got pretty beat up in his early days. Still, I think Rook runs zero throttle play and now this guy says to take up the play but have a little in it? WOTHE FUCK! I just don't know what other setting there is? LOL! I had that covered back in the day it's so old a trick play (pun) it forward? No, add some slack, I'll show you how it's done?

Gearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr HAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Great post hub. ""IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME." says it all - for a lot of folks on this forum. I think you are in that group for sure.

18-8-2 is my underground game history with this guy. I hear an excuse and a page full of history is gave the teacher a rain lesson LOL! I stared 18th, counted 8th and then count 10 riders behind me from there. I lay 2nd in the next few frame blips of the camera's old 8mm film. I added some music to it so I can just listen to the music loop(s) on the earphones.

So as racers rotate in and out of racing, they all see or stand in the winner's circle with those big names they read about growing up. Guy has a rich history of racing. I was just an also ran clubber more or less ran my own race that day.

* Last updated by: Hub on 3/3/2011 @ 9:44 AM *

Well I've been reading the Ring of Fire and so far not real thrilled.....I'm only 50 pages deep but its not doing it for me so far....May have to open twist the wrist instead...

HERE IN AUSTRALIA as all you know i've read all magazines in OZZ for a long time now for over 14 months edition i'm to so impressed of Road Rider I read nearly everything from the front to the back it's the best bike mag in OZZ for my first year of reading it it was one every two months there so great for "Normal" blokes but my wish has come there now releasing them every month now

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