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Total Control: High Performance Street Riding Techniques, 2nd Edition by [Lee Parks]

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Today's super high-performance bikes are the most potent vehicles ever sold to the public and they demand advanced riding skills. This is the perfect book for riders who want to take their street riding skills to a higher level. Total Control explains the ins and outs of high-performance street riding. Lee Parks, one of the most accomplished riders, racers, authors and instructors in the world, helps riders master the awe-inspiring performance potential of modern motorcycles.This book gives riders everything they need to develop the techniques and survival skills necessary to become a proficient, accomplished, and safer street rider. High quality photos, detailed instructions, and professional diagrams highlight the intricacies and proper techniques of street riding. Readers will come away with a better understanding of everything from braking and cornering to proper throttle control, resulting in a more exciting yet safer ride.

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The Problem of Learning to Go Fast

Total Control provides you with the information you need to stay on the healthy side of that line, providing a training course developed and perfected through decades of professional training in Lee Parks' Total Control Advanced Riding Clinic.

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A New Way to Learn

Using many friends as guinea pigs, the curriculum and drills began to take shape. My basic teaching philosophy was simple. Rather than ask a rider to try something at, say, 20 mph faster than he ever has tried such an exercise before (which happens at some track schools), I would ask the student to try going faster in small, 2-mph increments. This prevented him from getting too scared.

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How it Works

In order to master something, you must first identify what it is. Often this is accomplished by starting with what it is not. One by one, you discount the possibilities until you end up with an idea of what you’re facing. At this point, you can decide where you want to go, and you can focus your attention toward it. This is not unlike eliminating each of the voices in a crowded room until you’re able to carry on a conversation with just one person.

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Applying Total Control to Your Riding

Getting coaching from our professional instructors is the most effective way to put Total Control techniques into practice. Use this book as the gateway to taking your riding to another level.

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About the Author

Lee Parks has been racing for over 16 years, and he won the 2001 G.M.D. Computrack National Endurance Series Championship in the Lightweight class. He also finished 2nd in the 1994 AMA 125GP national championship in its exhibition year. He spent five years as the editor and chief test rider of Motorcycle Consumer News where he road tested every new street motorcycle available in the U.S. and became one of the top performance-testing journalists in the world. He is based in Victorville, CA.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00R31222S
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Motorbooks; 2nd edition (December 15, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 15, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 40887 KB
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 497 pages

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Vivian Alston-Allen

Great information!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2023

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Loved this book. Learned a lot from it. Recommended by a friend and was definitely worth it. Will definitely be recommending it to others.

This book along with Proficient Motorcycling make the two best books on riding.

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2020

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I have about a dozen books on riding technique which I got after returning to riding after decades of not riding. Of all the books I have, I consider Proficient Motorcycling (the first book, NOT More Proficient Motorcycling which is redundant) the best of all. I learned so much from it. But I consider Total Control to be the perfect companion book to Proficient Motorcycling. They do have overlap, of course, but Total Control deals more with the physics of riding, psychology, rider attitude, etc. The author has studied riding technique for decades and has clarified the most important things a rider should know. One of my grandsons (who is 25) mentioned that he's thinking of getting a motorcycle and, if he does, the first thing I'm going to do is order Proficient Motorcycling and Total Control for him. As I said, they make perfect companion books.

I'm a street rider. My bike is a massive Triumph Rocket III Touring (2300 ccs) that makes a HD look small when they're parked side-by-side. (I've been thinking of getting an HD to keep in my saddle bag as a spare. They're nice little bikes! :-) Just kidding, of course but it does make HD's look tiny. I mention that because anyone considering this book should understand that it's primarly written for sportsbike riders and racers. I can't even count how many pictures there are of riders in full lean with their knee dragging on the ground. But, even so, the book has lots of good information for street riders so don't let the emphasis on high-performance sports bikes and professisonal racing discourage you from buying this excellent book. In fact, I may just give away all my other books except the two mentioned in this review. Some of them are downright silly like the one recommending that you practice at least an hour a day in a large parking lot with dozens of cones set up and stripping your bike down of tail lights, headlights, panniers, turn signals, etc. beefore you practice. Can you imagine removing all that stuff every single day and then reinstalling it? I'm not going to mention the name of that book but it's a popular one.

If you are a new rider or returning to riding and don't have any books, just get the two mentioned in this review but don't bother with More Proficient Motorcycling. It's redundant and it's as if the author just wanted to squeeze out some more cash after the success of his first book.

22 people found this helpful

Comes across as a credible source of information.

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2022

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I’m signed up for an in person Total Control Advanced Rider Course in a few weeks, but when i saw that the book was available I decided to get a head start.

From Erik Buell’s introduction to the last chapter on clothing or ergonomics I learned something new, or remembered something at every step. His detailed fact based explanation for each chapter happened to appeal to me (a STEM wannabe). While some of the chapters, especially related to suspension set up were pretty dense, they all kind of came together in the chapter where he spoke about his ten-steps cornering technique.

He also makes reference to specific products or service, with web addresses, for product which he recommends. Which I’m always suspect of such specific recommendations, the author has built up a sufficient sense of credibility that I took his advice.

I guess it depends upon what you are looking for, but for me it was perfect.

2 people found this helpful

A must read for a sportbike rider

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2022

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It has all the need-to-know if you are a sportbike rider or want to go faster on a corner.

All you need after reading the book is just a practice to make this yours. You won't need another book.

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Christopher P Perry

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2022

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Great information on the `Total Control` of Motorcycles. I'll use it in the spring on my Ducati. Reread one chapter at a time.

essential for beginners and experts alike

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2022

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Essential for beginners and experts alike. As a resource for those yet to throw a leg over and for those who want to brush up on those tiny details in their technique.

3 people found this helpful

Awesome book, must have for any rider

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2021

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This should be the first book anyone buys after buying a motorcycle.

Really solid riding fundamentals and in-depth equipment book that I definitely recommend.

I have 3 years of street riding under my belt (15k miles) and am getting a ton out of it on braking, throttle, traction, etc. (also took their intermediate class).

l would also buy "Sport Riding Techniques" if you're looking for another book and different perspective - they're both great and should be must-reads. This/ these plus some youtube vids and an intermediate class or two should be considered mandatory first year curriculum by new riders.

Candidly, I should have read this and others shortly after my beginner class and would have not had nearly the amount of close calls. Can't recommend continued learning and this book as part of that regiment enough.

3 people found this helpful

Usefully book to have on the shelf

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2022

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Bought to further my biker education which it does. Not sure it's a manual for an advanced course, but it will broaden your knowledge

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Felipe

Excelente

Reviewed in Brazil on September 15, 2022

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Livro excelente. Bem didático e ilustrado. Um dos melhores.

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Horacio Escudero

Recomendable su lectura

Reviewed in Mexico on July 4, 2019

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Buena información técnica

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Savamerci

The title says it all!

Reviewed in Australia on January 21, 2020

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Very comprehensive information on how to be a better rider and how to set up the motorcycle for better control. Incredibly useful for nerds like me.

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suika

Very Best !

Reviewed in Japan on October 10, 2016

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　思い通りにバイクをコントロールする事目的として、それに必要なスキルを視点、スロットル、ブレーキ、ステアリングなど各項目に分割して、わかりやすく解説し図も多いので理解しやすい。表紙から想像されるようなレース用のテクニック解説書ではなく、一般ライダー向けの解説書なので、全てのライダーにとって有益な情報が含まれていると思う。
　特に、カーブ前にどのタイミングでどの様な操作を行うのかということも図にしてあり、頭の中を整理できた。もちろん、それぞれのスキルの解説には異論もある方も多いだろうから、上級者以外にはお勧めできるという事にしておく。

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Morgul78

Nice book about motorcycling riding skills

Reviewed in Brazil on July 1, 2021

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Excellent book with many advanced techniques. I have bought considering the good reviews about it. The book is very good and provides a clear understanding about motorcycling riding techniques. It’s important to put in practice.

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