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Safe riding: Staying alive on your motorcycle : the complete safety manual

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This book is an easy read of some 207 pages, all of which are related to safe operation of a motorcycle. Many anecdotal examples are used to describe various potential safety hazards and situations to the motorcyclists and methods used to avoid injury in each. Chapters include proper clothing for protection, surface hazards, speed related risks, weather, right-of-way and intersection hazards, making yourself 'seen' on a motorcycle, lane positioning, passing traffic, proper turns, and much more. Actual cases are presented and advice on what an operator should have done to avoid the risks. While the book went to press in 1980, none of the road risks have changed. Essential reading for anyone who rides a motorcycle and should be adjunctive to an accredited motorcycle safety riding course.

Mitch Williamson is a fool. Do not take advice from this guy. He knows very little about the safe operation of a motorcycle, as evidenced by how many accidents he admits to in his book. He also knows very little about motorcycles in general, as the book is filled with blatently incorrect statements about motorcycles and their operation (like "if your trip meter indicates you are close to the "reserve" point, go ahead and switch to reserve. That way, if you run out you have some left in the "main" tank." Huh? There is no separate "main" and "reserve" tanks; if you are on reserve when you run out, you are completely out! Also, much of his advice is contrary to accepted standards on motorcycle safety (such as recommending that you sit at a red light with the motorcyle in neutral, or swerve towards oncoming traffic to cross railroad tracks at a 90 degree angle.) If I had to guess, he has probably been killed in a motorcycle accident by now (if indeed he has ever even actually ridden a motorcycle.) If you are considering riding a motorcyle, DO NOT read this book, you will either have to un-learn a bunch of bad habits, or will be dead from following this moron's advice. He is obviously a socialist who believes every statistic that comes his way without questioning them, and believes that laws should be written to protect people from themselves. He thinks no one under 16 should be allowed on a motorcycle, when it's obvious that we learn far quicker and with longer lasting effects when we are younger, which would go a long way to making a safer motorcyclist. A smart man would say "if you haven't learned to ride before you are 25, you should stay off the bike, because you are too old to learn to ride safely. By the way, I have been riding motorcyles on the street since he wrote this book, and I've never been in an accident with another vehicle.

i loved this book it was so breathtaking i all most fainted it helped me alot i never leave my house without this book it made my girlfriend not be scared of my health when i go out on my harley any more thank you very very much.