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Motorcycle Riding Techniques
- Proficient Motorcycling : The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well
This book transfers a state of mind from the author to the reader. It forces you to take safety seriously and to focus on what you are doing when you are on a bike. Beyond the compelling (and sometime humorous) stories, the clearly described techniques for avoiding danger and the excellent graphics, this book teaches you how to think when riding a motorcycle.
- More Proficient Motorcycling: Mastering the Ride
A lifetime of practical tips, insight and information that any rider can apply in the pursuit of riding excellence.
- Total Control: High-Performance Street Riding Techniques
Lee Parks is the former editor of Motorcycle Consumer NEws, Motorcycle Product News, CycleShark.com, and a former staffer from Motorcyclist magazine. In addition to being an accomplished and respected writer and photographer, Parks teaches a series of high-performance riding courses around the world.
- A Twist of the Wrist 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding
The thrill of motorcycle racing tugs at the heartstrings of anyone who own a Harley, Honda, Yamaha, or any other cycle. Since most individuals do not have access to a racetrack, this enthusiasm results in far too many accidents, some fatal, on public streets. Code writes for those who do have access to tracks where riding techniques can be perfected.
- The Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Guide to Motorcycling Excellence
Now all motorcyclists can have instant access to an extensive resource on motorcycling safety, compiled by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF). Motorcycle Excellence: Skills, Knowledge, And Strategies for Riding Right is a book that comprises much of what the MSF has learned in the last 21 years.
Motorcycle Touring, Rides & Trips
- Great American Motorcycle Tours (Great American Motorcycle Tours)
In May, 2001, Gary McKechnie received one of highest honors a travel writer can receive: a silver medal in the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism competition for his guidebook, Great American Motorcycle Tours -- often called 'The Pulitzer Prize for travel journalists'.
- Motorcycle Guide to Route 66
Kirk Woodward has traveled Route 66 extensively. He originated the annual "all brands invited" motorcycle tour of Route 66 in 1994 and has written and photographed the old road in great detail.
- Motorcycle Journeys Through the Southwest United States
In the 420 page softbound book, Berke has scouted the region's best campgrounds, parks, scenic landmarks, and restaurants, always with an eye on value. Each chapter, or trip, contains useful listings of restaurants, lodgings, places of interest, and other helpful tips. Over eighty maps accompany the text, making navigation a snap, and over 255 illustrations highlight many of the attractions.
Motorcycle Repair & Maintenance
- Motorcycle Owner's Manual
Prefaced by an "important notice" that this guide should be used in conjunction with an owner's manual, Wilson's bright little book is based on a premise that needs to be remembered: a motorcycle "is a sophisticated machine that requires regular maintenance and periodic repair." The author lays out procedures and routines for simple maintenance (such as tire check and cleaning), then for basic servicing (including oil change and wheel alignment), and finally for more complex jobs (changing camshaft belt and clutch maintenance, for instance). Handy, attractive, and easy to follow.
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles (2nd Edition)
Covers everything from how to choose and maintain a motorcycle and how to buy appropriate gear to how to ride safely, and how to make the most out of trips on the open road. It also discusses motorcycle history and the timeless motorcycle mystique.
- Harley-Davidson Big Twins Owners Workshop Manual: 1970 To 1999
- The Rider's Guide to Motorcycle Maintenance (VHS)
An instructional video on bike maintenance that really teaches you something. Now not only save money when you change fluids on your scooter, have the confidence knowing that you did it correctly.
Lifestyle & Bikers
- Easy Rider (VHS)
Two cool guys head out on motorcycles in search of... well, America, but they'll settle for sex and drugs and rock & roll. There's plenty of each as Captain America (Peter Fonda) and paranoid Billy (Dennis Hopper) encounter a commune, convert a small-town drunk (Jack Nicholson) to the Grin Reefer, pick up two pretty lilies of the alley, Karen Black and Toni Basil (who hit the pop charts in the '80s--check out "Mickey"), and get shot for having long hair. Nicholson won an Oscar nomination and Best Supporting Actor nods from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle, but his acting was better than they knew: he had to pretend to be straight and gradually get plastered in many, many takes using real weed.
- Hell's Angels
Thompson has presented us with a close view of a world most of us would never encounter. His language is brilliant, his eye remarkable.
- Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
In this most intriguing and insightful look into the highly controversial, five-decade-old Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC), Barger chronicles the formation, history, and colorful events that have led to the mystique and outlaw image of this free-thinking organization.
- Jesse James: The Man and His Machines
On the surface, with his collection of skulls, pet sharks, pit bulls, and tattoos, Jesse James is the consummate motorcycle outlaw. But this image is only a small part of Jesse James' persona. There's also his passion as an artisan and his success at custom building bikes (chronicled in Discover Channels video productions Motorcycle Mania and Motorcycle Mania 2). Now Jesse puts his talents to good use as the master builder in the popular new Discovery Channel series Monster Garage.
- Motorcycle Gang (DVD) (VHS)
This seductive thriller stars sexy Carla Gugino (SPY KIDS 1&2, Jet Li's THE ONE) as a pretty teen flirting with disaster on a family trip gone bad! On their way to California, the biggest decision Leann (Gugino) and her family have to make is where to stop and sightsee. But their ill-fated fortune brings them face-to-face with a ruthless motorcycle gang and its rebellious but sexy leader, Jake (Jake Busey -- TOMCATS, STARSHIP TROOPERS). From there, Leann's trip turns into a wild journey down a dangerous road as Jake acts on his attraction and kidnaps her!
- Motorcycle Diaries (VHS)
This documentary is very well done. Women new to motorcycling will find inspiration here. They do a great job of showing many of the different kinds of motorcyclists out there.
Motorcycle History & Documentaries
- Harley Davidson:American Motorcycle (VHS)
Probably the best documentry on the Harley Davidson Motorcycle Company. In depth and entertaining with numerous celebrities presenting each chapter of Harley Davidson's history. Excellent historical footage cleverly spliced with clips from well-known motorcycle movies. Enhanced with interviews of unique and everyday HD owners, as well as nice footage of riding in the wind.
- The History of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle (VHS)
The History of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle is an understated title for an exciting hour-long ride through nearly 100 years of gas-guzzling adventure. The Harley has secured itself a proud position among American icons and has a fanatically loyal following of riders who, together with the company itself, make up a cross-country extended family that meets for annual reunions in Sturgis, South Dakota. This video documents the beginnings of the motorcycle through archival photographs and footage, and moves on through different designs, including the World War II cycles that helped liberate Europe and the postwar machines made popular by returning vets. Tour the official Harley museum and talk with enthusiasts from all walks of life, including Willie G. Davidson, grandson of one of the company's founders, to learn about the pride and care with which owners treat their bikes. Everything you'd ever want to know about these American road hogs is found in The History of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle.
- Indian Motorcycle Memories (VHS)
Vroom! Forty years after the last Indian Chief motorcycle was made, Indian enthusiasts are keeping the legend alive and the engines on their old bikes revving. Hear their stories and learn the history of the Indian Motorcycle Company: from its phenomenal worldwide success to the rivalry with Harley Davidson to its unexpected failure after World War II.
Racing & Action
- The Privateer (VHS)
Aragaki, Duhamel ,Mladin, Gobert, Hacking, and many more on this great video. Set at Willow Springs International Raceway, this action packed/documentary is about a Privateer's (Frank Aragaki's) dream to race his superbike with the pro factory riders! Hard work and determination earns him a grid position among pro factory riders from Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Ducati! The video footage is excellent for the nature of the film, there is nothing fake about it, and the dialogue is natural and "as it happens" so-to-speak!
- The Millennium Bike Show - Music, Bikes, Thrills & Spills (DVD)
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