Rider Performance

[Ray]

Just got done rereading "Sport Riding Techniques" by Nick Ienatsch. In the mid nineties Nick won two AMA National Championships and had a few second and third places finishes in the championships. He was a lead instructor at Freddie Spencer's High Performance Riding School. In the eighties and nineties Nick was a popular motorcycle journalist. One of his most popular article was "The Pace" in which he explained his thoughts on riding safely when sport riding.

The next book I will be rereading is "Smooth Riding The Pridmore Way" by Reggie Pridmore. Reggie Pridmore won three AMA Superbike Championships back in the seventies. His motorcycle school, CLASS, has been (was?) a popular training course for street riders and other riders.

There are other books I will be scanning this winter/early spring. I find rereading these books helps me focus on practicing proper techniques in the early spring which will hopefully carry through the rest of the riding season.

"How I spent my winter vacation...."
Good reading.

I've communicated a couple of times with Nick through his writing years, about the role of fitness in safe riding and racing - starting when he was the inaugural editor of the now defunct Sport Rider. Very personable. Still does hand written notes. From Wisconsin - if that explains anything. Not one to ask others to do the menial work, he last called me about a book order a couple of years ago. I think you'll find he still runs a travelling Yamaha-based riding school out of Las Vegas..., which I'm embarrassed to say, have never taken the time to sample..., but I have the book.