Ride Hard, Ride Smart: Ultimate Street Strategies for Advanced Motorcyclists
  Just when you think there's nothing left to learn about riding safely, along comes Ride Hard, Ride Smart by Pat Hahn.
With years of experience in motorcycle safety and strategy as a springboard, Hahn digs deep into safe riding techniques to develop new, big-picture, and sometimes unorthodox methods of staying safe on two wheels. This includes subtle mental strategies, off-beat advice, explicit techniques for dealing with trouble, and lifesaving tips for beating the odds. Through it all Hahn weaves irony and humor to keep it fun.
Hahn rates motorcycle risk and riding on a scale of one to ten, ten being mere moments away from certain death, and one being home safe in bed. Every motorcycle ride falls somewhere in between. Using what Hahn calls the three degrees of separation—riding strategies, training and skills, and protective gear—a rider can reduce the risk to a controllable level.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Using the three degrees of separation
- Getting hurt 101
- Risk
- The safest distance between two points
- Good times, bad times
- Visibility
- Riding at night
- Make it familiar
- Making friends
- Trouble areas
- The worst types and your best defense
- Reading the road
- Group riding and other distractions
From the Publisher
Ride Hard, Ride Smart is a practical, hands-on survival guide for the average motorcyclist. It takes up where the Motorcycle Safety Foundations' Guide to Motorcycling Excellence leaves off. That very successful book is aimed at beginning riders, and as such outlines the most basic strategies of motorcycle riding. This book provides more advanced survival and safety strategies.
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