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This book is written to help motorcyclists prepare themselves and their bikes to travel long distances over long periods. Whether you’re ready for a weekend beyond your own site or for a transcontinental odyssey of several years, Coyner’s book details the fundamentals of riding in comfort, safety and convenience. In three main sections, the book covers trip planning, rider preparation, and outfitting the motorcycle. A CREDIT. . . More>>
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RATINGS 4.5
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BUY HERE The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Travel: Tips, Technology, Advanced Techniques
I have been riding motorcycles since 1995. Meanwhile, I took several trips, one day excursions around the Chesapeake Bay voyages of two weeks. During these trips, I made some mistakes and I learned new ways of doing things to improve next visit. I also received lots of advice (mostly good) of people, either in person or groups of various Internet and e-mail lists. A lot of information I learned to make motorcycle travel easier and more fun is in the book by Dale Coyner’s. It starts with the basics. Where are you going, and how will you get there? How do you plan your route? then goes into how to prepare your bike (regardless of the type of bike you ride), and how to prepare mentally and physically. Then, before it is actually time to go, what you have to do, so that when you go, you’ll be able to go without worry.
< , br /> Reading this book is like sitting with a group of experienced travelers and motorcycles to hear about their travels and their secrets. Only with the book, you may withdraw it at any time and search for specific information to help you. Color photographs, maps, charts and information box to add much detail to the subjects and help them understand. It is a great book for a beginner, and a good resource and review for experienced travelers as well.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by Louis Caplan — August 10, 2010 @ 9:33 am
Imagine you’re in your late 30s, you’ve never owned a bike in your life and you want to start motorcycle touring. Where do you begin to know? Such is the dilemma I had when I arrived in sport, eleven years and 100,000 miles ago. Generally, I am informed by word of mouth, the members of our local club, BMW, and blind testing.
Anyone from today, however, would not have as hard a time getting started because of the new Dale Conyer wonderful book, The essential guide to Motorcycle Travel, Tips, technology, advanced techniques. What I found was a veritable encyclopedia of information that is equally valuable to the experienced learner as he would have been to myself beginning a decade ago.
; The book is organized into sections entitled:
planning your trip
Outfitter Preparing your bike on the road
< br /> The section on planning your trip covers all the key questions that need answering before you leave home. Yes, I left the house with some basics and is expected to “wing it” but the result is generally unsatisfactory. Using a checklist of Dale and put some rudimentary planning a journey that will pay dividends when you’re in a convenience store, asking the Highway Patrol get a slurpee if he would remain in the motel on road. When he answered “nothing”, and you find yourself riding another 30 miles groggy, you wish you had planned better.
The section on preparation is also very useful. It covers what to wear and what you should have between your ears to the nature of mental preparation.
Something I’ve never seen addressed in a systematic way before was “What is all this material going to cost?” I must admit that the acquisition of gear one piece at a time from vendors at rallies, used from the Internet or to my BMW dealer has been my preferred approach to assembling a crapload motorcycle speed. I’m not sure if I had the budget, I would not have chosen a better hobby, like sailing. Just kidding, anything for boats are expensive.
The bulk of the book is devoted to Farkle, the mechanical changes that we are all on our machines, looking for best songs, more comfort, more visibility, more more. There are chapters on the air, lights, action-cons electronic cockpit and global positioning systems, and cameras. Part of the attraction of this book is that it is really useful illustrations showing wiring and installation for electrical connections with relays and fuses.
Finally The book ends with the section “On the Road.” This section includes a chapter with tips on how to put it all together, which provides handy checklists detailing what to do six to twelve months before the trip, two weeks before the week before, the day before. If you have ever had to make an All Nighter working on your bike and you can be ready to meet your friends at oh-dark-thirty for a trip of six to one hundred mile, which could spare you this fate.
The last chapter of this section and in the book deals with contingencies. It is essential for anyone who decides they County will cross on a bike. It’s my photo on p. 161. My wife and I had a broken throttle cable in Socorro, NM, more than 800 miles from our home in Kansas and a long way from a BMW dealership. We met some good Samaritans who helped a merchant to Albuquerque and back on the road.
This book will help you prepare tour and perform any motorcycle which is more demanding than your local bike night club or poker run. It is worth the money.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by James R. Breed — August 10, 2010 @ 9:54 am
For those seeking information on travel bike is the book to have! Dale did a great job of covering many aspects (dare I say all?) For the motorcycle trip, and then some. All weather riding gear, GPS, suspension, campers, tents, seat cushions to suggestions for new equipment wiring in your bike can be found in this comprehensive guide. The book is filled with color photos. I was mounted on a number of years now, and I thought maintained on the latest equipment and travel info. . . until I read this book. I learned a few things and found some new gadgets to review. Highly recommended for someone just beginning to travel my bike or rider.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by John A. Brown — August 10, 2010 @ 12:10 pm
I was intending to take long trips in the near future and this book should be Bible every long distance runner. Lots of great information on what, where, how and why you should do things so long and comfortable travel. Covers all aspects of traveling on a motorcycle. Why not prepare well for a trip and enjoy? What you do not do it by lack of knowledge can spoil your trip. “Bike Trip” will take care of all possible problems. Written by those who have already done, and what to do and not do. Ride smart, you can buy “Motor Travel”.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by Al Perez — August 10, 2010 @ 2:43 pm
This book covers all asspects enjoyment of motorcycles. I have been riding motorcycles for over forty years and I have read many books on the subject of the bike. This is the best and covers the subject better than any I’ve ever read. I highly recommend it to everyone.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by David R. Propst — August 10, 2010 @ 5:33 pm