More Proficient Motorcycling: Mastering the Ride
  Following in the tracks of Proficient Motorcycling's tremendous success, comes More Proficient Motorcycling.
Offering new situations, entertaining anecdotes, practical instruction, and fresh photographs and diagrams, More Proficient Motorcycling teaches you how to keep yourself—and your bike—safe from hidden risks and potential harmful situations.
Author David Hough helps you negotiate the road better than you ever have before by covering a wider variety of motorcycling topics, from fine-tuning your skills to traveling tactics to safe motorcycle maintenance. He also details ways to control your machine as well as emphasizes how mental preparation can help you control the situation around you.
Without taking the pleasure and freedom out of biking, David's experience, talent, dedication, and plain talk make this one of the most accessible and practical guides available. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned campaigner, reading this book will kick-start your quest of mastering the ride.
Table of Contents
Foreword | Preface | Introduction
Chapter 1: Learning to Ride
Biker Bill's Last Ride | How to Become a Better Rider
Chapter 2: The Professional Attitude
Motorcycling as a Combat Mission | Wimp-o-phobia
Chapter 3: Road Rules
To Speed or Not to Speed | Alcohol
Chapter 4: Risky Business
Navigating the Road | Construction Ahead | Avoiding the Elephant
Chapter 5: Tuning up Your Skills
Spring Training | The Slow Ride | Move ir or Lose it | Quick, Stop
Chapter 6: Riding in the Real World
Sight Distance | Expert Eyeballs | Being Seen in All the Right Places
Chapter 7: Cornering
The "Trendy Delayed Apex Line" | Mastering the Throttle | Coming Unglued | Countersteering vs. Bodysteering | Feeling Your Bike
Chapter 8: Getting Your Head in the Ride
Riding Systems | Positioning | Passing
Chapter 9: Traveling Tactics
The Flagstaff Travel School | Moto-Psychology | When in Rome | Know When to Fold 'Em
Chapter 10: The Bottom Line
Ten Tips That Can Save Your Life | Between Rides
Resources | Glossary | Index
It's no wonder that Proficient Motorcycling has become such a smash hit, defining as it does the technical intricacies of operating a motorcycle better than any other text in history. But now, David Hough has surpassed even his own landmark work.
In More Proficient Motorcycling, we learn more of the human equation: how our mental processes and physical limitations affect our riding, and how to train ourselves to take maximum advantage of our abilities.
— Fred Rau, senior editor Motorcycle Consumer News
About the Author
David L. Hough is a longtime motorcyclist and journalist. He has traveled extensively by motorcycle throughout North America and Europe. David does all of his motorcycle maintenance, drives a sidecar outfit, and rides off-pavement as well as on the street, all of which provide a unique perspective on real-life motorcycling. His other books are Proficient Motorcycling and Street Strategies.
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