"A twist of the wrist 2" will teach you how to ride faster, smoother, safer, it could save your life and will teach you more about motorcycle riding technique than you thought you could ever know. This guy (Keith Code) taught Doug Chandler how to go faster. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. This volume teaches you cornering technique that applies to any situation. The main chapter headings are "throttle control", "rider input", "steering", "vision", "braking", "traction" and "racing".

You will learn that smoothness equals speed and safety. Using the techniques taught by Keith you will find even a bike like my Yamaha Virago 1100 is a pretty quick bike through corners as long as you set up a smooth entry into the corner, then power through and blast o! ut the other side. I've blown away squids on GSXR750s and 1100s using this riding style, mainly because I can now carry a higher cornering speed.

Keith teaches you that braking hard into a corner just upsets the suspension and maked the bike pogo all th way through. Get your braking done before the corner and the suspension is set up to provide traction all the way through the corner.

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Code's most useful text for street riders  Dec 30, 2003 By W. D. Rupy
"Twist II" contains the most useful information to street riders, out of Code's three "twist"-series books. ("Twist of the Wrist" and "Soft Science" are decidedly more racetrack-oriented books and aren't really applicable for street riding, but if you race then those will be useful to you!) Code's discussion of Survival Reactions or "SR's", and his explanation of the results of applying certain inputs (brake, throttle, steering) to your motorcycle, in various situations, are the two most useful topics of this book, and are worth the price alone, whether you race on a track or ride on the street (and make sure you never confuse the two! ;-)

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Helped me survive some scary occurences  May 27, 2003 By Daniel Cox
I don't know about everyone else, but when I read a book I learn from it. There is a lot to learn in this book. I am glad a I read it a few times already because I think what learned from it saved my skin the other day when I hit a large hole in a country road going about sixty or seventy in pretty good lean on a right hander. I think my forks bottomed out because they made this ugly noise and the bike started bucking like a horse ( I don't have steering damper ). I did what the book suggested in this instance: I didn't get scared ( until later ), I relaxed, I got out of the saddle, balanced on the pegs, and gassed it. Result: bike stayed up and I didn't eat it. Keith will tell you to trust your bike and let it do its thing, he says riders and their fears are the reason bikes go down and all you have to do is learn to be a good rider and let the bike do what it is designed to do. Excellent advice. This book might save your butt. BUY IT AND READ IT OVER AND OVER.

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A Solid Book of Fundimentals In Need Of Updating  Aug 21, 2001 By Chris in St. Pete
As a beginning rider that completed the MSF riding course, I was searching for the tools that would allow me to ride faster and safer. While the MSF covers the "how to" it doesn't really go into the "why"...This book does an excellent job of telling you why you do things on the bike and how the bike will react.

If you are a street rider wanting to ride faster, better and safer than skip "Twist of the Wrist" and buy this book instead. "Twist II" really should have been the first book in this series as it focuses on fundamentals, while "Twist" emphasizes the skills of road racing, which are obviously different than street riding.

While the information contained in this book will always be relevant, the text and layout look a bit dated, especially in this day and age of "...for Dummies" books. The text is easy to read and comprehend but can be a bit juvenile at times.

I have read and applied the concepts of this book to my everyday riding and feel it has accelerated my learning curve tremendously over what I would have learned simply by doing or listing to the advice of friends.

Bottom line: 95% of riders can benefit from reading this book. Read it, apply it and be a better rider.

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Want to really improve your riding?  Sep 06, 2001
Code's book changed all my perpective towards motorcycling. Reading it and applying the information given in it improved my way of riding dramatically. I generally ride big enduros and at first, I was thinking that this book was for only the sportsbike riders or even for the race track fans. I was on a vacation at the Mediterrenian coast when I started to read the book on the beach. After reading a few chapters, I found myself on my bike exploring the new world of curves. My wife was a little bit angry with me but on the way back home, she was also very impressed.
Improving your cornering is only one of the many other perfect riding techniques that you can benefit from Code's book. You will also be surprised when you learn braking, looking at the road, sitting on the bike etc. Every corner of the book is full of information and it is really very difficult to get everything at once. I read it maybe 5 times and everytime again and again, in order to get the feeling what is explained in it. I got up early at weekends and rode to my favorite curves in the city just for practising. Everytime you become well at doing one thing and find out that you couldn't pay enough attention to another point. But as you practice, you make incredible improvement.
There is only one point which I found annoying in the book: The meaningless vocabulary at the end of each section. My language is not english, maybe that's why I couldn't get "the point". It was confusing.
My last word is "ANY motorcyclist SHOULD read this book regardless of what kind of a bike she/he is riding.".

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