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Motorcycle Touring: Everything You Need to Know |
Author: Dr Gregory W Frazier
Published: 2005-09-05 |
List price: $24.95
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 Not worth the time or money
Only good as a rough introduction to the concepts of motorcycle touring. Frazier's a good writer and obviously an accomplished motorcyclist, but he's got a bad attitude that flows through every story and every chapter, drawing the reader's into a cynical place. Frazier seems mostly to be trying to talk the reader out of undertaking an adventure by motorcycle, rather than trying to teach them how to better survive such a trip.
I can sum up Frazier's book in just a few points:
1. Package tours are for sissies.
2. Ride alone, other people will just ruin your trip.
3. Only sissies and Americans ride bikes bigger than 500cc (250cc in some countries).
4. If you don't love tent camping, you are a sissy.
5. No matter what, none of you will ever be as good at this as I am.
If you want to get a more pleasant introduction to motorcycle (specifically adventure) touring, read Robert Wicks' Adventure Motorcycling: Everything You Need to Plan and Complete the Journey of a Lifetime. For a FAR more informative and useful tome than Frazier's, read Chris Scott's Adventure Motorcycling Handbook, 5th: Worldwide Motorcycling Route & Planning Guide (Trailblazer).
Both Wicks' and Scott's books are filled with actual, useful data such as how to successfully navigate a border crossing; Frazier merely includes a story about how a woman he met on the road got through a border crossing by crying. Where Scott includes a half-dozen stories by other riders about their travails, Frazier includes no perspective other than his own sour view of two-wheel touring. Wicks' sidebars are clear, concise, and informative; Frazier's and self-indulgent, pessimistic, and not even witty in the least.
In short - don't bother with Frazier's book and skip right to the other two I suggest.
 Very informative
This is a very informative and at times entertaining book. Though it was my second book on touring it could have been my first. I have owned four bikes but I have been out of motorcycling for 26 years. I wanted to tour back then but did not. I am doing it now so I wanted to get some expert advice. I feel very well informed as to equipment and what I might expect. Plan your trip, research the bikes/dealers, try them all on, they must fit (not too big, not too small), take a motocycle safty course, buy and have fun. Read Coyner's book also.
 it should be titled "common sense things you should already know if you own a motorcycle."
This book really only demonstrates common sense thing you should already know if you own and ride a motorcycle. If you don't know this stuff, you really should just walk wherever you go.
Throughout the book, I was wondering what decade it was written.
It was a waste of money.
 Certainly not Everything You Need to Know
I agree with A. Brannon "MLC Rider" to a lot of fluff and not enought subtance. The book is mostly Doc Frazier's travelog. I was looking for information on how to travel, with what and how to do it safely.
This book is certainly not Everything You Need to Know.
I think the better book is:
The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Travel: Tips, Technology, Advanced Techniques
by Dale Coyner
Light but interesting
I enjoyed reading the first half of this book but then found it very repititous. There were some good common sense tips that you would apply to travelling the world by any mode not just motorcycling. His stories and anecdotes were interesting at first but it soon became obvious that the book was well padded with fluff and photos.
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