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Motorcycle
Riding Skills Books
Allan Kirk has been working in
the motorcycle safety/rider training field for over 30 years.
In that time he has gained an encyclopaedic knowledge of the
subject and has written many internationally-acclaimed motorcycle
riding skills books.
A few of the titles are listed
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- Paper books
- US$20 each
Braking - The Motorcyclist's No 1 Survival
Skills.
This book contains an in-depth look at the most difficult of
all motorcycle riding skills - high level brake use. Internationally
praised, it is probably the most comprehnsive book ever written
about the most essential survive skill of motorcycling.
How To Get Off Speeding Tickets.
A light but telling look at Police operational procedures and
equipment in speed law enforcement and the loopholes that may
mean the difference between paying the Government a large amount
of fine money or spending that money on more worthwhile things
like fallen women, wine, and song...
Cornering - Going Around The Bend On A
Motorcycle.
Safe, quick cornering requires considerable riding skills knowledge,
the understanding and application of some quite complex cornering
rules, a cool head, sharp eyesight, trained reflexes, a well-maintained
motorcycle, and an ever alert and working brain.
This book will help you gain the mental skills needed to corner
well. The physical skills will come with practice.
Mental Control - Motorcycling's Hidden
Skill
The experts say that over 90% of motorcycle riding skills are
mental skills. Mental Control is both a skill and a frame of
mind that separates the professional motorcyclist from the amateur.
This book is aimed at helping the average motorcyclist gain Mental
Control skills.
Ride Like An Expert - The Basis Of Professional
Riding.
This popular book is a book covering the core motorcycle riding
skills. As such, the book will be found useful by both the newcomer
to riding and the experienced rider who wishes to brush up on
his skills.
Crashes and Crises - Learning From Other's
Mistakes
An often hilarious book containing riders' descriptions of motorcycle
crashes they have had. The intent of the book is to provide the
reader with an idea of the things that can go wrong while riding
and to pre-plan appropriate strategies to counter these problems.
- The Megarider Crash Survival System deluxe
When it comes to the crunch and there seems to be no way to avoid
a crash, all is not lost. At worst, using the Megarider Crash
Survival System you can reduce the crunch to a survivable impact
while, at the best, you can avoid the crash altogether.
The Megarider Crash Survival System has been developed over the
past decade based on the New Zealand Motorcycle Safety Consultants'
experience in practical riding tuition, examination of local
and international crash statistics, and the study of hundreds
of motorcycle crash reports.
- (Available in a New Zeaand, US, or Euro version)
- You Are As Good A Rider As You Think -
The Psychology and Attitudes of the Megarider
- Ninety percent of motorcycle riding skills are mental and
it's the riders with the best mental skills who constantly out-ride
other riders.
- The book "You're As Good A Rider As You Think - The
Psychology and Attitudes of The Megarider" looks at
the deeper aspects of how the megarider uses his brain on a motorcycle.
- It covers things like the psychological control of other
road users, the use of Transactional Transfers to instantly change
your style of riding for the better, and how you must do an about-face
in attitude to achieve true control over other road users. This
book is quite unique and is the result of 30 years of in-depth
rider training study and a hundred or so years of combined riding
experience in the NZMSC team.
- We recommend this book to you. It will open up areas of riding
skills you've never even thought about.
- The Megarider's Guide To Motorcycle Tyres
- Tyres are not just simple round rings of rubber.
- They are a remarkably complex product and have a huge impact
on the performance of a motorcycle.
- This book looks at all aspects of tyres - their history,
how they are made, how they actually work, the different types
there are, how to intepret tyre markings, how retread motorcycle
tyres are made, how to choose tyres for your bike, special factors
such as aquaplaning, plus there is a whole range of additional
information about tyres that the experienced rider must know
to ensure his bike is shod with the best rubber for his bike
and his riding style.
- To the best of our knowledge this is the only book that looks
at this subject in detail from the motorcyclist's view point.
- It's a must for any megarider.
Street Chess - The Survival Game
- Ask any experienced rider and he or she will tell you that
to survive out on the roads you have to know all the moves.
- You have to be able to read a situation way in advance and
have your reactions to that and any possible situations that
may arise from the approaching situation all lined up and ready
to go.
- Sounds like a chess game, doesn't it?
- Indeed, sometimes staying safe on a motorcycle is just like
a chess game and this book looks at motorcycle riding from that
novel perspective.
- Yet again, from the Megarider Organisation comes a riding
skills book that will make you think about your riding in a new
way, learning more and improving your survival skills in the
process.
Riding To The Vanishing Point
- It started off as the system the Police in England use for
fast safe cornering.
- Now, after international development, Riding To The Vanishing
Point has become a riding system that automatically enables you
to adjust your speed for any situation where your vision is blocked
or where you encounter what may be a hazardous surface.
- The Riding To The Vanishing Point system employs a simple
technique as its basis, a technique able to be implemented by
any rider, novice or experienced. The the system is intuitive
and adapts for such a wide range of situations that you will
find that the system applies to most of your riding.
- Riding To The Vanishing Point allows you to ride roads you've
never been on before at speeds that are likely to severely embarrass
most of the locals; all the while doing it in perfect safety.
What more could you want?
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The Megarider Guide To Riding Pillion
- Motorcycles carrying pillions are over-represented in motorcycle
crashes. Part of the problem is that too many pillions do not
know what to do when riding on the back, yet their untrained
actions can cause the bike to go out of control.
- Riders tell us ruefully of pillions who refuse to hold on
unless you are damn near popping a wheelie. Then, everytime you
open the throttle a little, there is a massive grab at your midsection
and their weight shifts waaay back.
- Some pillions also won't look over the rider's shoulder because
that's too close to hugging. So, instead, you get to be head-butted
umpteen million times.
- Most new pillions also try and stay perpendicular to the
road. There's nothing more exciting than having somebody try
to straighten up when you're lining up for a corner or trying
to hold a line in a corner.
- And on and on rider's go with horror stories of what bad
pillions have done to them.
- This book is an attempt to redress that problem. It tells
the prospective or practicing pillion rider in detail what to
do and what not to do when on the back, and how they can make
the rider so much better and safer for everyone.
- If you ride on the back of a motorcycle at all regularly,
you NEED to read this book.
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Riding
- Zen Riding, it's called amongst experienced riders.
- It's where things seem to act mystically when you are riding,
where your actions are made without conscious thought, where
the rider seems to be immersed in and part of everything in the
roading environment.
- There is, of course, a logical explanation for it, and of
course the MegaRider organisation explains it in this book.
- But the MegaRider people go one step further in this book.
In an intriguing approach to rider training, they use Zen-like
stories and sayings to bring a deeper understanding and appreciation
of high level riding motorcycle skills to the reader.
- As always with MegaRider publications, this book is thought-provoking,
educational, and contains information that will, if you make
a point of remembering it, probably save your life out there
on the roads, sooner or later.
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E-Books
The Secret Skills of Motorcycle Riding,
Level One
This e-book, with well over 100 A4 pages, contains a solid core
of information on the things all riders need to know. Covered
in detail in the book are such things as essential riding and
survival skills; what to look for and how to go about buying
a motorcycle, the things you need to know when looking to buy
riding gear, such as leathers, helmets, rainsuits, gloves etc;
learning to ride, cornering skills; crash survival; and even
how to pick up your bike if it falls over.
"The Secret Skills of Motorcycle Riding, Level One"
US$15.00
- The Secret Skills of Motorcycle Riding,
Level Two
- The sequel to the much-acclaimed Level One book, this book
contains more advanced tip, techniques and information on riding
and owning a motorcycle.
- "The Secret Skills of Motorcycle Riding, Level Two"
US$15.00
- Golden Rules and Riding Tips
Books One and Two
Each of these books of Golden Rules and Riding Tips contains
scores of skill-enhancing tips and golden rules that can save
your life or, at least, make you a better, smoother, and thus
faster rider. They are the result of years of riding experience
and knowledge and include tips on everything from how to handle
stray dogs through how to handle a mechanical crisis to tips
on ways to train yourself in various high level riding skills.
Use the book as you wish. You can read each book in one sitting,
or just browse it. Or you can use the books as an invaluable
aid to increase your skills by choosing a new tip each day to
include out in your riding repertoire and, in this way, groove
your riding skills to a higher level.
- Golden Rules and Riding Tips
Book One Book Two
US$15.00 US$15.00
The Dimwit's Guide To Cornering
The Dimwit's Guide To Cornering contains an in-depth look at
the complex skills involved in fast, safe cornering.
It looks at the anatomy of corners, the various sectors in corners
and the requirements on the rider in each of these segments.
It talks about power steering and the pertinence of this technique
for road riders, at the visual processes involved in cornering,
about how your don't learn corners but plan for them, and much,
much more.
To our knowledge, it is the most comprehensive book on road motorcycle
cornering techniques available.
The Dimwit's Guide To Cornering
US$15 each
The Megarider's Guide To Motorcycle Tyres
Those simple round rings they call tyres are not so simple after
all. Even the way they work to grip the road is quite complex
involving molecular bonding, hysteresis, abrasian, and cutting
and tearing.
This book is, to our knowledge, the most comprehensive book available
on motorcycle tyres. It covers a large range of subjects including
how a tyre is made, how they work, tyre behaviour, types of tyres,
tyre tips, tyre markings, how to break in tyres, street versus
race tyres for road use, wear patterns, how to choose a tyre
and much, much more.
Any rider who wants to know more about those motorcycling essential,
tyres, will gain a huge amount of knowledge from this 116 page
book.
The Megarider's Guide To Motorcycle Tyres
US$15 each
The Secrets Of Smooth
This book could be called a Do-It-Yourself riding course in that
contains a series of exercises for the rider who wants to instil
megarider smoothness into his riding.
The description of each exercises is accompanied by a detailed
explanation of the philosophy behind the exercise.
An example is the exercise in which you are required to use sound
and sensation to enhance your riding. You are given an example
exercise to carry out and the ways sound and sensation can be
used are explained as is the philosophy that surrounds this subject.
This book and the exercises therein are essential for any rider
who wishes to shortcut his or her way to becoming a megarider.
Secrets of Smooth
US$15 each
Winter Riding Skills
Winter riding is so much more enjoyable when you know the tricks
and techniques of comfort and survival for winter riding.
This book from the New Zealand Motorcycle Safety Consultants
is probably the most comprehensive book you will ever find on
the skills and secrets of riding safely and comfortably in a
winter of hail, snow, rain, and ice.
Just a few of the subjects covered are handling fog and ice,
keeping warm on cold rides, handling wind, winter riding clothing,
and riding in the rain.
Winter Riding Skills
US$15 each
On Road Training Exercises, Level Two
This 44 page book contains foundation skill exercises plus detailed
explanations of the subjects covered by those exercises for the
rider who is beyond the basic newbie stage.
It covers such subjects as road positioning, riding to the vanishing
point, separation, lean types, countersteering, positioning your
aims, and numerous other things.
It is a must for experienced and not so experienced rider alike
who wants to get or keep the edge on his or her riding.
On Road Training Exercises, Level Two
US$15
- Megarider Parking Lot Exercises
- This book is the result of thirty years of NZMSC rider training
and contains a series of difficult riding exercises that the
NZMSC has developed over those decades.
These exercises, ranging from the Tight Turning Tango to the
Thoughtful Pause, are able to be carried out on any sealed parking
lot and are not dangerous to perform, but are very difficult
to carry out.
- Any rider who wants to spend many weekends fooling around
on his or her bike learning fine riding skills will get a lot
from this book and the exercises and explanations therein.
- Megarider Parking Lot Exercises
- US$15
The Secrets of Seeing Things - Visual Skills
Of The Megarider
- When we are riding we must make continual mental judgments.
We base these mental judgments on four things - information,
knowledge, skill, and experience. Of these, information is the
most essential factor - without information we have nothing to
make judgements upon.
Our most important source of information comes via the eyes,
through vision.
- This book looks at how we use our vision while we are riding,
and how we can improve it and get the most from it.
- The Secrets of Seeing Things - Visual Skills Of The Megarider
- US$15
Megarider's Bedside Book of Motorcycling
- A book covering a wide variety of motorcycling material,
including quizzes and entertaining articles. Great to kep beside
the bed and dip into just before you go to sleep.
- Megarider's Bedside Book of Motorcycling
- US$15
The Secrets of Braking
- The faster a motorcyclist can stop, the less chance he has
of having a serious crash. This is perhaps the most comprehensive
book ever on the skill of motorcycle braking. It contains virtually
all the information a motorcyclist will ever need to master one
of the most difficult of all motorcycle riding skills - high
level braking.
- The Secrets of Braking
- US$15
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The M/cycle Engine - It's Basic Operation
and Configurations
- US$15
Riding Courses Publications
Do-It-Yourself Riding Course. Level Two
Do-It-Yourself Riding Course. Level Three
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Foundation Riding Skills Riding Exercises
Megarider Parking Lot Exercises
All US$20
Order any of these books here
This links you to the Megarider website,
Allan Kirk's motorcycle safety/riding
skills website
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