Best Motorcycle Repair & Performance
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. This is the perfect book for riders who want to take their street riding skills to a higher level. He also finished 2nd in the 1994 AMA 125GP national championship in its exhibition year.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"After you read this you will be more informed than 90 percent of those squibs on the streets."
"They are David Hough (Proficient Motorcycling series) for thinking about riding on the street, Lee Park's Total Control and Nick Ienatsch's Sport Riding Techniques. Seems silly to ride in a parking lot but doing so and following Parks drills have really helped me pick up my riding."
"The push with the left to turn left and not use any input from the right hand is a comcept well explained and I am eager to experience how it will positively impact my cornering habits at my upcoming track days."
"The book is a very entertaining read filled with clear descriptions and advice on how to improve one's riding skills. In my view "Total Control" is one of the better values for street riders."
"Great informational document."
"The competitive high speed info is good to know but not really for street riding nor my style of riding at this stage and age."
"Great book!"
"Excellent book, getting many tips."
Peter Egan's writing invites you to pull up a chair, pour a little scotch, and relax while he shares with you his tales from the road, his motorcycling philosophy, and his keen observations about the two-wheeled life. Peter Egan is one of the most readable writers in the motorcycle enthusiast world.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"When you finish reading a page, your hair is actually wind blown, and you can smell the pine trees and corn fields as you have been riding along with him."
"Articles by Peter Egan and Kevin Cameron were the sole remaining reasons why I continued to subscribe to Cycle World."
"For those of you who haven't read him yet, you are the lucky ones, for the rest of us who miss his Cycle World and Road & Track columns- Hey Peter, about those two unpublished novels you mention in your last column, how about putting those out, at least on Kindle."
"I am a regular reader of Peter Egans columns but I find having the collected columns together like this better."
"A wonderful read, I miss his regular columns both here and in Road & Track."
"The last of the series of articles that Peter wrote."
"I own and have read volumes 1 and 3 and the stories capture the excitement, wonder, camaraderie, craziness, perverse logic, and sometimes pain that is motorcycling."
"Cant get enough of this scibes scribblings."
This book, by America’s premier suspension specialist, makes the art and science of suspension tuning accessible to professional and backyard motorcycle mechanics alike. The book provides step-by-step photos of suspension disassembly and assembly as well as detailed troubleshooting for dirt, street, and supermoto - promising a solution to virtually any handling problem.” - Sport Rider. One thing’s for sure: it is absolutely the “Bible” of motorcycle suspension, no doubt about it.” - WebBikeWorld.com Lee Parks is the author of the best-selling riding skills book Total Control. He is also the owner of Lee Parks Design, a motorcycle glove and apparel manufacturer in Apple Valley, CA.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If you are looking to understand the inner workings & theories on motorcycle suspension I do not think you will find a better book. If you're looking to have someone else do suspension work for you this book is invaluable as you will be well versed in understanding what YOU are looking for, and you will be better prepared to speak the "language" of the subject, as well as judge a good tuner from a "tinkerer"."
"This book has a good deal of suspension theory in it."
"Very good book on motorcycle suspension."
"Read it, reread it, have a knowledgeable suspension person explain it, start implementing it on your own bikes and it will all make sense."
"If it was possible to gain real world experience by reading, this would be one of the books that would be able. to transcend reality and make it happen. If you are redesigning or doing major chassis modifications on a street bike you will also want. Tony Foale's "Motorcycle Handling and Chassis Design the Art and the Science" to compliment this book."
"Not sure if this deserves a five, but there is really nothing to compare it too that I am aware of."
"I wasn't aware that half the book was pictures and instructions of how to actually perform the mechanical work on the forks/shock."
Best Motorcycle History
Peter Egan's writing invites you to pull up a chair, pour a little scotch, and relax while he shares with you his tales from the road, his motorcycling philosophy, and his keen observations about the two-wheeled life. Peter Egan is one of the most readable writers in the motorcycle enthusiast world.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"When you finish reading a page, your hair is actually wind blown, and you can smell the pine trees and corn fields as you have been riding along with him."
"Articles by Peter Egan and Kevin Cameron were the sole remaining reasons why I continued to subscribe to Cycle World."
"I am a regular reader of Peter Egans columns but I find having the collected columns together like this better."
"A wonderful read, I miss his regular columns both here and in Road & Track."
"The last of the series of articles that Peter wrote."
"I own and have read volumes 1 and 3 and the stories capture the excitement, wonder, camaraderie, craziness, perverse logic, and sometimes pain that is motorcycling."
"Cant get enough of this scibes scribblings."
"His wit and self-deprecating humor, along with his background and knowledge of man and machine, add up to a collection of yarns that make you love motorcycling, or wish you could."
Best Pictorial Motorcycle Books
"Phil's new book Gypsy Joker To A Hells Angel is based on 44 years as a Hells Angel. Like the bogus chapter of the Hells Angels, this turned out to be a club whose brotherhood was run by a man Mr. Cross describes as “a complete asshole.” One day, Mr. Cross stuffed the leader in a ringer-type washing machine and joined a club called the Gypsy Jokers. Eventually Phil and many of his fellow Jokers realized that the only way to end the battle with the Hells Angels was to become Hells Angels, so most of the San Jose Charter patched over to become the San Jose charter of the Hells Angels. Phil Cross: Gypsy Joker to a Hells Angel tells the story of one man’s fifty-plus-year life in the unique, often dangerous, and always exciting culture of the three-patch motorcycle club. Phil Cross: Gypsy Joker to a Hells Angel chronicles Cross’ life and times in his own words and photos, from his early years with the Gypsy Jokers through his forty-plus-year career as a Hells Angel, a career that led to his being a fugitive on the FBI’s most-wanted list (more than once) and a stint in prison.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is an interesting book."
"There are a ton of vintage photographs of bikers and bikes and locations across America and the world. While not necessarily all of the stories are 100% true (as winked at in both the afterword, and in the very, very carefully written disclaimer on the copyright page), they probably pass the test of being "true enough". It does get a bit hard to follow him at times -- these are intensely personal stories, and he also makes liberal use of nicknames to describe his ever-changing array of friends and club brothers; it's often hard to relate to a lot of his stories, simply because the who's-who gets confusing."
"Phil does an amazing job of transforming the life he lives into words that make you feel like you know him, and I would say to those who do know him they are very lucky to be in the company of such a man! He's brutally honest about everything and he has such an optimistic outlook on life that can probably have something to do with his wonderful wife, Meg."
"It was real good to get the inside story on some people who "went away" but I only heard rumors (Armond) and wondered. I lived in San Jose, Santa Cruz, behind the Brookdale Lodge,and Eureka."
"Its a very good book - even when you can tell he's leaving out the best parts of the story for legal reasons."
"i loved your boo."
"I found Plil's book to be a very well written book filled with great photos.I highly recommend this one to anyone loving motorcycles and club life.Even though he didn't get into many much about 81,it was still a great read.I'd like to see him do a work of fiction,so he can put down the real crazy life of being a 1%er,and get away with it cause it's written as fiction.Thanks Phil for talking about the G rated part of your life.I'm glad you're still with us to write about it.I'm looking forarad to your next book."