Reviews for A Twist of the Wrist: The Motorcycle Road Racers Handbook

The average rating for A Twist of the Wrist: The Motorcycle Road Racers Handbook based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-21 00:00:00 John Seebeck Two pieces of advice for anybody desiring to ride a motorcycle: take a Motorcycle Safety course and read this book. I acquired this book shortly after taking the Motorcycle Safety Program course in Pennsylvania. I wasn't interested in road racing or heading out to a track. I was looking for things that might be useful in gaining better control over my machine. What I found was a witty, entertaining and very helpful book. It has been thirty years since I read it, but that has not diminished the impact that it made on me. His chapter on Crashing had very useful information, and a catchy subtitle "Relax: Your Just Road Testing Your Leathers". This was the first good information about getting away from the bike I had ever seen or heard. Coupled with his earlier concept of Thinking It Through, it only made sense to get free of the bike so a bad situation doesn't become worse. Having laid a bike down at speed in my younger days, I can attest to the disorientation involved, so his advice about not trying to get up before you are sure you've stopped is very appropriate. All of the basic information about steering, braking, the situational awareness required in riding are explained well. His pivotal chapter about having only so much attention to give to anything contains excellent advice for many situations. If you have to devote too much attention to the dozens of operations involved in operating the machine, that cuts into the attention you can give to what you want to accomplish. In his case, that meant the race, in my case it meant paying more attention to traffic and potential threats to my continued well being.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-27 00:00:00 Dino Eleftheropoulos I was recommended this book by a friend before I started to ride motorcycles. He had said reading it changed the way he rode. When I bought my first bike, I decided to read it in hopes of having a good starting point for the base of knowledge. A lot of what it said came across as common sense and directed at racing more so then your average rider. I did find value in the writing, however I didn't see it as a game changer like my friend.