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    Navigating Mountain Curves on a Motorcycle: Navigating Mountain Curves on a motorcycle: Book I, #1
    Navigating Mountain Curves on a Motorcycle: Navigating Mountain Curves on a motorcycle: Book I, #1
    Navigating Mountain Curves on a Motorcycle: Navigating Mountain Curves on a motorcycle: Book I, #1
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    Navigating Mountain Curves on a Motorcycle: Navigating Mountain Curves on a motorcycle: Book I, #1

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    Learn best practices on a motorcycle for maneuvering S curves to hairpins, rain, hail and lightening. What to do when encountering animals ranging from skunks to cows. How to survive crazy drivers on cell phones. The author takes you around 92 curves typical of what can be found anywhere in the country and addresses dozens of threats to the motorcycle rider. Included are motorcycle myths.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherlost lodge press
    Release dateApr 28, 2017
    ISBN9781386149545
    Navigating Mountain Curves on a Motorcycle: Navigating Mountain Curves on a motorcycle: Book I, #1

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      Navigating Mountain Curves on a Motorcycle - lost lodge press

      Table of Contents

      #Chapter One | Who am I and why am I qualified to write this book?

      #Chapter Two | The Territory Ahead | Let me introduce you to the gateway to the Southern Cascade mountain range;

      #Chapter Three | Cars and Curves.

      #Chapter Four. | Animals, large, and small.

      #Chapter Five | Road Hazards

      #Chapter Six | Negotiating curves in rain, wind and hail. | First and foremost, all the issues I’ve mentioned so far, other vehicles, animals, road hazards and even the nature of the road all become that much more hazardous and unpredictable in inclement weather.

      #Chapter Seven | The dreaded double yellow line.

      #Chapter Eight. | Stopping Distance.

      #Chapter Nine | Shooting shadows

      #Chapter Ten | Distractions, yours and theirs

      #Chapter Eleven | Situational Awareness

      #Chapter twelve | Rigging the odds in your favor.

      #Chapter One

      Who am I and why am I qualified to write this book?

      My name is Kit Crumb, I’m 64 years old and I like to consider myself a lifetime motorcycle rider. More than that, I believe I have motorcycle fever in my blood. My mother tells me that my first sentence was Look out da Bike. I was standing on the back seat of the family’s 1955 Mercury. My father was backing it into the backyard and all I could see was the motorcycle he often referred to as the bike. My father rode Harleys. I have many wonderful memories of riding behind him on short trips to get groceries.

      In the ensuing years since those heady days riding behind my father on his Harley-Davidson, I moved to Montana, Arizona, and Oregon where I always had a motorcycle. I finally settled in Ashland, Oregon. In 2006, I moved from town up into the Cascade mountain range. I began commuting the two and one-half miles to Dead Indian Road, which I followed for seventeen miles to Ashland, ending with another five miles through town to my place of business. Did I mention that the 17 miles of Dead Indian Road consist of over 90 curves?

      Early one morning, I was winding along to work on my 97 Kawasaki Vulcan and glanced down to check my speed; the odometer was just turning over 27,000 miles. At that moment, I realized I’d clocked over 15 thousand miles on Dead Indian Road. Divide that by five motorcycles, Honda Rebel, 250, Suzuki 650, Harley-Davidson Sportster 883 and my current 1997 Kawasaki Vulcan 800 and the occasional trip to town on my wife’s 04 Honda Shadow Aero, and you have the inspiration for this manual.

      Over the years on this road, I have encountered all manner of beast; bear, rabbit, skunk, deer, raccoon, cow, elk and possum. I have passed or been passed and sometimes swerved to avoid cars, pickups, buses, not to be confused with hippie buses, county vehicles the size of army tanks and motorcycles. I have been rained and hailed on, ridden through windstorms, and nearly struck by lightning.

      As you will discover in Chapter Two, The Territory Ahead, I encountered all the aforementioned, critters, machines and changing weather conditions not only while negotiating various curves but also while climbing from 1,800 feet to nearly five thousand.  For those 15,000 miles, I’ve gleaned insight into the complex intricacies of navigating mountain curves, and now I’d like to share those insights with you.

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      Before we charge ahead, I need to make the distinction between what I call flat miles and mountain miles. Flat miles would be all the miles that the motorcyclist covers in commute to work and around town riding. This would also include trips that didn’t involve mountain curves. Along with flat miles are flat curves. These are roads where you can see the end of the curve, obstacles and cars coming. Have you ridden more miles than I have? Probably. But I would offer up as credentials for writing this book the consistent, day after day, year after year of nothing but mountain curves that ascend roughly 3,800 feet in 17 miles. To that, add the unpredictable weather and wildlife of the Southern Cascades.

      Make no mistake; having ridden hundreds or even thousands of miles on a motorcycle doesn’t qualify you for the unpredictability of mountain curves and the obstacles you’ll encounter there.

      #Chapter Two

      The Territory

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