Twist of the Wrist: The Motorcycle Roadracers Handbook Paperback – May 12, 1997

Definitely a good read for all riders, very informative

Informative, great reference guide. Several explanatory paragraphs on breaking and everything you'd need to know about riding. Really enjoyed thumbing thru this book. Placed on my coffee table, it's that interesting!

When I had my bike I would read this book time and time again before riding season. It makes you aware, and give you practice tips that may save your life when you need it. Even if you have been riding for a long time, it's good to keep these tips fresh in your mind.

A Twist of the Wrist (1)Twist of the Wrist 1 and 2 were recommended to me, along with Proficient Motorcycling, as guides to help beginners understand the mechanisms of riding motorcycles. I found Twist of the Wrist 1 was more involved with racing on a road course than dealing with daily riding/traffic. However, physics are physics and many of the tips and strategies do apply in normal riding!I have a collection of books on improving racing strategies in cars, and I found many of the tips and strategies can apply in normal driving. It's just that most people choose to ignore this and believe in one philosophy or the other. Keith Code's philosophy to riding, at least in the scope of this book, is found in racing. He does include some tips on basic concepts such as using the front brakes, rev-matching your downshifts, and counter-steering. Overall, Twist of the Wrist 1 isn't as comprehensive or as solid for a beginner as Proficient Motorcycling by David Hough. That said, Twist of the Wrist is worth buying to read and to use as a reference in the future.Code enjoys using the $10 attention span tool, which makes sense as much as it is annoying to see pop up every other paragraph. I feel that it would be better if Twist of the Wrist 1 and 2 were combined, revised, and updated because Twist of the Wrist 2 filled in a lot of the gaps left in the first, and includes more useful tips and the most common survival reactions (SR's).Overall: 4/5 stars, not as mandatory as Proficient Motorcycling, but still a good read. Twist of the Wrist 2 is what I'd recommend if you had to choose between TOTW 1 and 2.

I was really happy to find this book available for Kindle. I read it years ago and it made a huge difference in my riding. Then I took Keith's class, then read A Twist of the Wrist II, and with all that I went from a shaky street rider to a confident and proficient trackday rider and racer. I know this book saved me from making tons of mistakes and and/or crashing my bike.Seeing A Twist of the Wrist available for Kindle prompted me to buy it and read it again, and I'm so glad I did. Reading it again now, with so much more riding experience, I found a ton of things that I had glossed over the first time that now mean SO MUCH more to me!Plus, the Kindle edition of the book has been updated and I found it easier to read and more current than the original book. Can't wait for better weather so I can go ride and work on my skills again. This is a must-read for anyone from casual street riders to those who race or aspire to do so.

Great series of books. The DVDs are very informative as well. I had a hard time finding those though. I borrowed them from the library of all places. The book and DVD's definitely helped me to become a better rider and opened my eyes to some bad habits. I never did a track day but was able to apply most of the information here to riding on the street and getting into twisty's. I would not have been able to handle The Tail Of The Dragon as well as I did had I not read these. I think anyone that rides somewhat spiritedly should read these books. You can even apply some of what's taught to everyday driving in your steel cage. Some of the info here may just save your life.

Book is oriented toward riders on tracks with an emphasis on studying the details of each curve and developing the best way to ride through them, and the order in which topics are covered is unintuitive and confusing. For a touring rider like myself who is not intending to study and run the same curve repeatedly, much of the book is irrelevant. So while I took away a dozen or so good tips, much of the book wasn’t useful to me. Also, the author takes an inconsistent perspective on his reader. Sometimes it is very basic, as though the reader has just learned how to ride, and other times it assumes a deep knowledge of riding…which in kind of what you’d expect from someone who wants to learn about riding a race course. So I suspect that few riders would find the entire book useful. It is way too basic for some, and far too advanced for others.

This book is a must for anyone who rides motorcycles on the street (whether it is recreation or faster speeds) or on the track. I gave up riding on the street because it does NOT matter how good of a rider someone is, you have to avoid people in two thousand pound cars and those people will always win. There might be the rare exception pf people who walked away from a collisions with cars but these are the VERY RARE exceptions. The professionals who ride bikes for a living never ride on the street. Dijaro Kato was a professional racer who could ride motorcycles and he died while riding on the street.My point is this, if you make the decision to ride on the street or track, this book will make you a better rider. Period! So good that you will easily be able to pass people on the outside of a corner while you are on a smaller cc bike, There is much more to riding a bike than twisting the grip and these books help you to open those doors.