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How to Ride a Motorcycle: A Rider's Guide to Strategy, Safety And Skill Development
A beginner's manual especially geared to the needs of entry-level riders, this book provides all the basic instruction necessary to become a motorcycle rider with an emphasis on the challenges faced by neophyte riders. Starting at neophyte level and evolving into a serious, intelligent expert, How to Ride a Motorcycle tells the reader how to be a motorcycle rider with a strong emphasis on safety and big-picture strategy ("think about it this way" as opposed to "do this.")
- GenresMotorcycle
144 pages, Paperback
First published October 29, 2005
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About the author
Pat Hahn
11 books3 followersPat Hahn is, by trade, a motorcycle safety expert who works with US state programs to improve motorcyclist safety.
He began as a motorcycle safety instructor in the 1990s, then turned to writing. All Pat's books except his most recent (Classic Motorcycles) have a commitment to building knowledge, skill, and awareness -- read any of them and you'll be a better rider for it.
Classic Motorcycles/Art of Speed was an enjoyable deviation. Working with Darwin Holmstrom and Tom Loeser and featuring bikes from the Solvang vintage motorcycle museum in California, the book is an astonishing depiction of some of the world's most beautiful performance machines of the last 120 years.
In real life, Pat rides every day, commutes, and tours, mostly on Honda V-fours. His other passions include woodworking, golf, hiking, and finding remote, pristine spots for a cool swim after a hot ride -- his current favorites are the Quartzville and Santiam rivers in Oregon.
He began as a motorcycle safety instructor in the 1990s, then turned to writing. All Pat's books except his most recent (Classic Motorcycles) have a commitment to building knowledge, skill, and awareness -- read any of them and you'll be a better rider for it.
Classic Motorcycles/Art of Speed was an enjoyable deviation. Working with Darwin Holmstrom and Tom Loeser and featuring bikes from the Solvang vintage motorcycle museum in California, the book is an astonishing depiction of some of the world's most beautiful performance machines of the last 120 years.
In real life, Pat rides every day, commutes, and tours, mostly on Honda V-fours. His other passions include woodworking, golf, hiking, and finding remote, pristine spots for a cool swim after a hot ride -- his current favorites are the Quartzville and Santiam rivers in Oregon.
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June 18, 2007
My husband bought a motorcycle first and this book second. I picked it up (the book, not the bike) and read the whole thing in about 2 hours. (I skimmed the sections on how to shift.)
Notable section: Lay down on the edge of a pickup truck bed and then roll off the back end. Did that hurt? It's what it feels like if you fall off your motorcycle.
Now get a friend (?) to drive about 5 miles an hour and then roll off. Try it at 10, 20, 30, 60.....
This book is more frightening than a Stephen King novel.
Notable section: Lay down on the edge of a pickup truck bed and then roll off the back end. Did that hurt? It's what it feels like if you fall off your motorcycle.
Now get a friend (?) to drive about 5 miles an hour and then roll off. Try it at 10, 20, 30, 60.....
This book is more frightening than a Stephen King novel.
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