QUESTION Has anyone read this book? Rain Riding Techniques

[Jaythro]

Has anyone read this book? Rain Riding Techniques: a Guide to Wet Weather: A Practical Guide to Wet Weather Motorcycle Riding (Paperback) by Todd Thompson (Author) ??

Basically since the front washed out on me with a bearing seizing up I've been a hell of a lot more cautious and need "something" to "lift" me up a bit and get me back in the groove in the wet.

But without paying a sh1tload of shekels to get involved in a Training course that I can't really afford, £20 for a book that may help I can live with? Funnily enough I'm as happy as a pig in the proverbial brown stuff on a tatty scruffy 1150GS Adv and half worn tourances??? Explain that One?? And before ya start yes It was on the road and it was running not on a trailer!!!

Front cover and piccy here (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0741426951/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=)

[jamming]

Jay, haven't read it. I lived in Oregon for a few years so I have plenty of rain riding experience. It's faded some since I moved back home to Arizona. Still, riding in the rain does not faze me at all.

A couple of things I remind myself is incease my following distance, watch the knucklehead behind me as they don't know how well the ABS works in the rain(great!), and I remind mysel I have about 80% of dry traction available. So I slow for turns a bit more.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but ANYTHING you can do, reading, practice, whatever, that forwards your riding technique is good. So go for it.

Riding a motorcycle is like flying an airplane, you need a specfic skill set, practice makes perfect.

[DarthRider]

Riding in the rain is great "recurrent training" for riding in the dry.
Since you must be smooth or crash, that awareness & techniques carry over to dry riding.
"Smooth" is a wonderful thing, but it must be practiced...which in turn, makes you a better rain rider...

[Elsie Smith]

Jay, I've not read it either. I love riding in the rain actually. Granted, Roger's advice, "A couple of things I remind
myself is incease my following distance, watch the knucklehead behind me as they don't know how well the
ABS works in the rain(great!), and I remind mysel I have about 80% of dry traction available. So I slow
for turns a bit more," is followed pretty closely. Good tires are a must.

I like riding in the rain because there is usually left traffic and less likely chance of being stopped for speeding.
Although I did get stopped once in a torrential rain and to say the officer was shocked to see a woman is an understatement.
That was the ONLY time I ever got off with a warning :-)

[Sir Limpsalot]

I haven't read it either and, frankly, wonder how on earth anyone can fill an entire book with advice on wet weather riding. On the other hand, if you think it'll help, then why not give it a try? It's only about the price of a tank of fuel after all.

Smoothness is the "Holy Grail" and requires practice to achieve. You can get away with a surprising amount on good modern tyres in the rain, both cornering and braking, just don't make sudden inputs..

See? All I have to do is work out how to sretch the above passage into 300 pages and I could get a book published!

Let us know how you get on.
Si.