Twist of the Wrist

by Keith Code

Book Overview

Here's everything you need to successfully improve your riding, novice or veteran, cruiser to sportbike rider. This book contains the very foundation skills for any rider looking for more confidence... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918226082
• ISBN13: 9780918226082
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Acrobat Books
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Something to think about

It seems like some reviewers have missed the point. It's the simple, fundamental things that a lot of seasoned riders get wrong. I know-I was one. Take the information and think about what you are reading. Analyse your own riding- see how much better you can do. I had been riding for 20 years when I came to this book. It made me a better rider for the price of 3 tanks of gas. It's that simple.

the bible of high-performance motrocycle riding

i read this book when i was just street riding, and the more i rode the more i learned and the more i re-read the book. when i started roadracing, i bought the second version and it took my riding and racing to new heights. if you ride a motorcycle, you should read this book, period.

A Twist Of The Wrist

Keith Code's book A Twist Of The Wrist is the essential book for the motorcycle road racer, or a motocross racer. The indepth detail of the book is a big help. From counter steering to braking, the book is excellent. This book gets a 5 star! Recommended to any motorcycle road racer or motocrosser.

Great teaching strategy

Can you improve yer motorcycle riding skills by reading a book? No doubt about it.Keith Code is founder and director of California Superbike Cornering Schools and has published a number of books on the subject of racing motorcycles on speed tracks. Although most of this book's focus is on handling race bikes, only the last two of its sixteen chapters are exclusively dedicated to racing.The book concentrates mostly on better controlling your speed while maneuvering your bike over varying racetrack conditions.As you'd expect, there is a major emphasis on turning: getting through the turn with increased mph and decreased time spent in [the turn] and [maintaining] adequate control of the bike. Code's overall approach to improving riding skills is to define the basics, and then to investigate the decisions you must make to ride well.He uses a great analogy: Each person has a fixed amount of attention while riding a motorcycle. This is represented as a $10 bill worth of attention. If you spend five dollars of it on one aspect of riding, you have only five dollars left for all the other aspects. Spend nine and you have only one dollar left, and so on.The aspects of riding he talks about are things like:Road characteristics: Constant-, increasing-, and. decreasing-radius turns, crested turns, series turns, positive- and negative-camber turns, and road surfaces.What you do: Riding is one thing; riding plus being aware of what you are doing is quite another. Making an effort to look at what you are doing while you are doing it.Your own evaluation of what you just did and what just happened: Things that can be thought over and changed if necessary.I like his teaching strategy. After isolating several specific principles, concepts, and techniques, each subsequent chapter effectively builds on what was previously presented to the point that if you didn't understand the concept and haven't yet experienced it, you'll want to get back on the road and try it out, read the book some more, then evaluate what you understand.The books's worth buying.

An excellent guide to motorcycle riding technique.

Keith Code teaches you to read the road. He explains camber, radius, series of turns, elevation (uphill, downhill, crested track) and straight sections. Observe your products (measureable events) such as speed, lean angle, gear and RPM. Understand you controls: brakes, throttle, handle bar movement and where your body exerts force on the motorcycle. His explanation of Reference Points is invaluable, even if you are a car enthusiast. At speed, location is a moment in time. You have to use the correct control and the correct place. He explains counter steering (push right to go right) in straight forward and easy to understand detail. For the adventurous he explains sliding, hanging off and (you may need this) falling off. My riding improved considerable after reading this book.