Reddit reviews More Proficient Motorcycling: Mastering the Ride

If you haven't read Proficient Motorcycling by David Hough [link] (http://www.amazon.com/More-Proficient-Motorcycling-Mastering-Ride/dp/1931993033) start there. I still go back to it all the time and pick up tips on riding.

Rather than tell him anecdotal scare stories, get him to read the findings of the Hurt Report, which is the largest (and still one of the only) studies of motorcycle crashes & fatalities ever done.

Some of the more interesting bits of the summary:

> The motorcycle riders involved in accidents are essentially without training; 92% were self-taught or learned from family or friends.

> More than half of the accident-involved motorcycle riders had less than 5 months experience on the accident motorcycle, although the total street riding experience was almost 3 years.

> Almost half of the fatal accidents show alcohol involvement.

There's also a couple books, Proficient Motorcycling and More Proficient Motorcycling, which every motorcycle rider should read (in my humble but correct opinion).

Sport Riding Techniques: How To Develop Real World Skills for Speed, Safety, and Confidence on the Street and Track
More Proficient Motorcycling

> The techniques I have learned and shared were taught to me in the MSF Beginner course. I think your advanced techniques and concepts might certainly be confusing and "over the head" to many beginners .. such as the OP.

I encourage others to think, and -- as I keep stating -- I fight misinformation. If you have a problem with one or the other, I really don't give a shit.

The MSF course teaches you the fundamental mechanics of riding and very little more. In retrospect, I'm horrified that they put people on the street with so little training. If you want to swaddle people in a nest of MSF generalities, go ahead. I may well be there, too, to point them in the right direction.

> Oh, and disagreeing with others does not have to equal calling them idiots.

I call it like I see it. Not an idiot? Demonstrate it by reading and writing carefully. Your post was poorly constructed, contained tangential information, and was simply wrong. Further, you were defending someone who has been going around spreading some dangerous misinformation.

Seek out information and learn.

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