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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.
This e-book is a follow-up to The Secret Skills Of Motordfycle Riding, Level One. In this book is the core information you need to know when you move out into the chaos that is traffic. While it may be core information, it appears to be information that many experienced riders do not know, a matter of concern for all of us. Covered in this book are some of the riding tricks of the megarider, separation skills, riding at night, looking for trouble, dealing with life-threatening riding crises, triffic traffic lights and lots, lots more. Even experienced riders will find that it fills in gaps in their knowledge.
Each of these e-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 e-book as you wish. You can read each e-book in one sitting, or just browse it. Or you can use the e-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.
Arguably, the fun of riding a motorcycle lies more in cornering than in any other aspect of riding. Cornering is THE sensation of motorcycling. Yet cornering well is not simple. It's a complex skill requiring a lot of knowledge and the understanding of some quite complex techniques. This e-book contains all the information you need to learn how to coerner quickly and safely on-road. Any rider who wishes to be a Megarider should read this book. Perhaps the one outstanding characteristic of the Megarider is his or her smoothness when riding. Yet riding with smoothness is not a simple thing to achieve. It is very difficult to learn how to do the hard way and even requires a lot of application when appropriate techniques are suggested for use. This e-book calls on the three decades of NZMSC work in rider training to show the reader the best exercises to do to groove smooth riding. The e-book also provides the reader with an explanation of the philosophy behind the exercise and why it should be implemented. Also covered in the book are explanations of a number of high level Megarider riding skills that play a major part in smooth riding.
Winter riding is so much more enjoyable when you know the tricks and techniques of comfort and survival for winter riding. This book 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. US$15 This is a book that contains everything a rider needs to know about motorcycle tyres - how they are made, how they work, the types of tyres there are, and at lot more, even what those mysterious markings on the side mean. Too many riders take their tyres, one of the most important components of the motorcycle, for granted and don't know enough about them. This book is an attempt to solve that problem. Tyres are complex objects but not mystical ones. This book will help you understand more about them and improve your riding and safety because of it. US$15
The way a rider uses his or her eyes on a motorcycle is a much unacknowledged skill in motorcycling. Yet it can mean the difference between life and death. 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. And if we aren't using our eyes properly we won't see the information. This book looks at how we should use our eyes when riding, the tricks and traps in visual scanning, nightsight, and even covers how to keep other motorists looking for us. US$15 This book is a smorgasbord of motorcycling writing. It's a collection of
articles, serious and humorous, which looks at the skills and
experiences of riding. US$15 Ninety percent of motorcycle riding skills are mental and it's the riders with the best mental skills who continually out-ride other riders. Our new e-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 of other road users. This book is quite unique and is the result of 30 years of in-depth rider training study and heaven-knows-how-many years of combined riding experience in the NZMSC team. We recommend this e-book to you. It will open up areas of riding skills you've never even thought about. We have a variety of motorcycle riding skills books available, covering both the mental and physical riding skills. Many of these books cover areas and techniques not covered (or fully understood) by organisations such as riding training schools and governmental motorcycle safety organisations. This is because the non-profit NZMSC has, for the past 30 years, focused on studying and developing riding skills knowledge and techniques, rather than being diverted by running time-consuming motorcycle safety campaigns or focussing on making an (un)healthy profit. Consequently, a lot of the content of these books is unique and ahead of its time. The NZMSC staff are constantly amused to hear overseas organisations promoting a "new", "advanced", "life-saving" technique, knowing that that very technique has probably come to their attention from the NZMSC via the NZMSC's work on the Internet. According to the experts, 90% of all riding skills are mental. With the lessened margins of safety in high speed riding, mental skills become even more important to a rider's enjoyment of riding. Many of these are subtle skills that may be picked up, often the hard way, over many years of riding. Some riders never learn them. The NZMSC book "Mental Control" looks at these mental techniques of riding. US$20 including postage. Readers of the NZMSC riding skills booklets kept pestering the organisation to write a light yet comprehensive book on the basic skills of motorcycle riding. This widely praised book is the result of those requests and is full of all the basic facts and techniques riders should - but often don't - know. It covers things such as maintenance, cornering, carrying pillion passengers, riding wear, motorcycle accessories and skills like hazard recognition, to name just one. US$20 including postage.
The No. 1 Golden Rule in cornering a motorcycle is to look where you want to go. One of the most common motorcycle crashes is where the rider fails to get around a corner. And the reason he fails to make the corner is usually because he gets in a bit deep, panics, thinks he's going to run off the road, then looks off the road in the direction he's going. And, as always, his bike goes where he looks - off the road. If the rider had looked where he wanted to go - up the road - then chances are that's where his bike would have gone. This Golden Rule of cornering and it's implementation is just one of the many vital cornering skills covered in the NZMSC book "The Art Of Cornering - Going Around The Bend On A Motorcycle". US$20 including postage.
The high level braking skill includes, amongst other things, the tricks of how not to lock the front wheel, how to control a rear wheel skid, how to avoid target fixation and knowing how to judge surfaces and situations. In most motorcycle crisis situations, the faster the rider can stop his machine, the less chance there is of a crash occurring. And braking doesn't only help in slowing the bike. The skilled use of brakes, such as into corners, will also increase a rider's average speed. This book is probably the most comprehensive book on motorcycle braking skills, techniques and knowledge ever written. US$20 including postage.
Ask any experienced rider and he 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 arising 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. |
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