A Twist of the Wrist 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding | 
 enlarge | Author: Keith Code
Publisher: Code Break
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 28212
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 117
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Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0965045021
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.750202
EAN: 9780965045025
ASIN: 0965045021
Publication Date: August 31, 1997
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Straight facts about riding! A Twist of the Wrist, the acknowledged number one book on rider improvement for ten years straight, brought riders worldwide to a new understanding of vital riding skills. Uncovers and traces, action by action, the direct links between man and machine.
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 Hmmm June 26, 2008
Now, this is an interesting book...
On one hand, it is packed with very useful information for both the street rider (the group of which I am a part of) and, I assume, the track rider. Code brings some interesting things to the table and makes these concepts pretty easy to understand even for the novice rider.
On the other hand, as has been mentioned in plenty of other reader reviews, this book is likely the most poorly written professionally published thing I've ever read. It is *filled* with errors, inconsistencies, howlers, and non sequiturs. Not only that, but words are seemingly randomly bolded and asterisked (sometimes both at the same time) and more random words are thrown into a glossary at the end of the chapter. In a lingo-centric sport like motorcycling, why not define more things like low-side, roll-on, contact patch...things like that? Instead, we get words like:
Sail: A Piece of canvas or cloth spread to the wind to cause a vessel to move
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Point: A particular spot
or
Dazzling: To Impress deeply. Brilliant
or
Wisdom: A wise saying or teaching
WTH? Very strange. All in all though, a good book that I, as an intermediate rider, was able to glean much useful information from. If you can get passed the irritating manner in which that information is presented, you'll probably find it helpful as well.
 Must Read! April 7, 2008
I thought I was a pretty good rider, 29 years of experience riding all kinds of bikes - but had never taken an advanced rider class. While reading this book, I quickly realized how many mistakes I had been making. E.g., over the years I had figured out most of the steps involved with making a turn as described in the book, but I did not have ALL the steps figured out - there were some CRUCIAL pieces I was missing.
My riding has improved dramatically since reading this book, and my enjoyment of riding is back to where it was when I first started riding!
I wish I had read this book when I first started riding and every year since. I wish someone had recommended that I read it. I am making sure that all my riding buddies read it if they haven't already. Don't be proud, get this book.
If we rode like Keith writes, we'd all be dead March 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Terribly written book. Has many ideas and concepts I've tried and haven't found viable for me. HOWEVER, two chapters in the book are very worthwhile: 1)The 7 deadly Survial Reactions and 2) the chapter on visual directional control--the "Two-Step." These alone make it worth the price of the book. There are many books that teach motorcycle riding techniques far better, that you can actually understand because they aren't written by someone who must have spent his high school career flunking English. Glad it's cheap.
Another racing book March 20, 2008
It is difficult not to like this book, Keith Code knows motorcycling. But if you are looking for street riding, there is little here to help you. Throttle control and bike balance was very good, so any understanding about motorcycles is important. I will always honor Keith Code since he was my first teacher with his first twist of the wrist. Thanks
Good but........... March 3, 2008
Not bad reading at all. Keith does a wonderful job of keeping the chapters to a reasonable number of pages. I would suggest Lee Parks, Total Control to be a better, more useful read.
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