Stayin Safe the Art and Science of Riding Really Well Canada
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ISBN 978-1-884313-72-i
Dimensions: 9.187 10 6.375 x 1.062 (352 pages)
Published by Whitehorse Press
Printed in U.S.A.
Price: $24.95 (Hardcover)
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This volume was published in 2008, after Lawrence Grodsky's tragic and untimely 2006 expiry in, of all things, a motorcycle accident. I was as shocked as anyone — across shocked, actually.
Although I never attended 1 of Grodsky's "Stayin' Safe" motorcycle rider preparation courses (I definitely wanted to but just didn't quite get to information technology), I had been an ardent follower of his "Stayin' Safe" columns inRider magazine for many years.
I'll venture to say that I learned more from Grodsky about safety motorbike riding than probably anyone. All you lot need is Grodsky's columns and David Hough'due south Proficient Motorcycling (wBW review), and you'll absolutely have the best resource to be found anywhere on the subject of fun, safety and aware motorbike riding.
Thus my great shock at learning of Grodsky'southward death on a wheel. He hitting a deer on a rural route in Texas, returning on a cross-country trip from a motorcycle safety conference (yous tin read more in this obituary in the Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Postal service-Gazette).
I accept never gotten over this stupor…but I have learned how to put it to good utilize. I tin honestly say that there isn't a single time that I go for a ride when I call back of this, and in this small way at to the lowest degree, Grodsky'due south work and his life live on.
So what's the lesson? I do not know. Why practice humans live, and why do they die? This is deep stuff.
Here'south a motorcycle rider who lived, breathed, understood and probably dreamed about motorcycle safety, and fifty-fifty with all his training; all his skill; all his cognition of what tin go wrong — something like this happens. Information technology does go to evidence you that it tin can happen to anybody, any time. Some things, I guess, y'all only can't ready for.
Or can yous? It would be foolish to have the wrong lesson from this tragedy that we don't fully empathise. And the wrong lesson would go something like "He was an expert, and look what happened. And so why should I spend fourth dimension on preparation? After all, the same matter could happen to me whether I was trained or not".
Indeed…but if you lot knew when or where or how, yous would be supernatural. There are many factors at work here; for example, Grodsky probably rode many, many more miles on a motorcycle than any of us, so the probability that he would run into a deer (or a deer would run into him, equally I understand it) was naturally greater.
Or, we might non accept even known of a Lawrence Grodsky, had he taken that type of coincidental attitude towards motorbike safety at the showtime of his career. We but don't know — all nosotros can exercise is prepare and focus on today.
Stayin' Safe: The Art and Science of Riding Really Well is a collection of Grodsky's columns, first published inRider mag. The volume was only published in 2008 and the material for the book was compiled by Grodsky's friend Pete Tamblyn, who is besides a riding instructor in Grodsky's "Stayin' Safe Motorcycle Training Program", which is still going strong.
Tamblyn got some of Grodsky's friends and colleagues to write cursory introductions for some of the articles. Put in the form of a book, the articles take new meaning. As I went dorsum through and read some familiar articles and some that I don't call up reading previously, I am absolutely struck at what really is the science contained in the words.
This is not a "how to" book; it's very much a thinking person's guide to some very esoteric and deep thoughts on motorbike riding.
And that'south the surprise and the difference in this volume. I'll guarantee that the vast majority of motorbike riders don't even come close to thinking about their riding with this much depth, consciousness and awareness. These are stories to be read very slowly and to savor, closing the volume afterward each and contemplating the knowledge that has only been proffered.
I'll admit I was surprised — I estimate I either never thought of Grodsky'south work as this deep or "scientific", or I was younger and more foolish back then, or the expiry of this person who I only know through his words has struck me even deeper than I idea.
All I can say is this: just equally every motorcyclist should own and covet a copy of Hough'southwardProficient Motorcycling, so should every motorcyclist own a re-create ofStayin' Rubber: The Art and Science of Riding Actually Well. Get 1, study it and think most what yous have learned — you won't regret it.
Review Date: April 2008
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Owner Comments and Feedback
From "Fifty.Northward.": "This book compares very poorly with David Hough'south book or MSF'southward 2d edition. The writing is both cutesey and dumbo. There are no illustrations – then every bit a "How to Ride" manual, this doesn't cut it.
As a memorial, which was what was intended, it may be o.1000. – I never followed the cavalcade or subscribed to the mag. One can only promise that Larry'southward Stayin' Safe riding training courses had a clarity which does not come through to someone unfamiliar with the homo."
From "J.S." : "Stayin' Rubber is an excellent read. Larry was e'er making "safety" entertaining as well as keeping his commentary relevant to current bug whether information technology was motorcycle related or correlated to the world in full general.
Each commodity is clogged of tips and suggestions and read very quickly. Larry was ever challenging us every bit motorcyclists to be better thinkers, to be constantly aware of our surroundings and our abilities. As far equally I am concerned each i of his manufactures from the "Stayin' Safe" column in Rider magazine should be published and referenced constantly. For us looking to better sympathise rubber riding, there was no one meliorate at delivering the goods."
Source: https://www.webbikeworld.com/stayin-safe-lawrence-grodsky/
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