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title: "Proficient Motorcycling by David L. Hough"
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date: 2024-09-01T22:15:16+05:30
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categories: ["Book Notes"]
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summary: "A good primer on learning how to ride well"
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tags: ["non-fiction", "motorcycling"]
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**Started on:** July 12th, 2024
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**Finished on:** Aug 29th, 2024
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**Time to read:** 9 hours, 9 minutes
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[Also published on Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2835723629)
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I have been riding motorcycles for past 7 years. I've had so many crashes in the early days that people were afraid of sitting as a pillion on my bike. Slowly I started internalizing few things and gradually the accidents stopped. This is a typical journey of how you learn any skill. However, it becomes a problem if you never give yourself a chance to see your skills from first principles and examine bad patterns that you might have internalized.
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Reading this book was a refreshing reminder to examine how I ride a motorcycle.
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This didn't teach me anything extraordinary, but it explained so many things that I had, just sort of, accepted as given. Like how tyre pressure affects a bike's traction, why counter-steering works, why front brakes are much more powerful (and should be used more frequently) than rear brakes, and on and on.
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Pick up this book if you'd like to improve, and understand, how you ride.
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