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New Books/DVD's Added
Adventure Riding Techniques
The essential guide to all the skills you need for off-road adventure riding
By Robert Wicks & Greg Baker
Book Description
Adventure Riding Techniques is the definitive guide to the specialist skills needed for off-road adventure riding, written to give readers the confidence to undertake a long-distance adventure ride, whatever the conditions. The book takes a practical approach to adventure bike basics, riding techniques, crossing different types of terrain, riding positions and survival. In typical Haynes style, using picture-led chapters and step-by-step instructions, the book covers all the key aspects of the techniques relevant to adventure riding.
Hardback, 270 x 210mm, 176 pages, 300 colour illustrations
'Sam Manicom’s dynamic third book transports you to Southern Africa, South and Central America in an action-packed three year voyage of discovery...a thought-provoking mix of scrapes and encounters with people which illuminate some moments of true darkness... acute observations on everything from human behaviour, to remote and stunning locations. Distant Suns grabs you, enthrals you and spits you out as a convert to the dream of overlanding these amazing continents.'
Reviews
‘It’s been a pleasure to read as it makes me feel as if I’m there seeing the people and landscape that Sam describes. He has a gift for painting pictures with words, which is rare amongst long-distance riders… In summary, a damn good read, not to be missed.’ Dave - BMW Club Journal
‘…as the book progressed and the story unravelled, it developed into a truly involving and enthralling read. Distant Suns doesn’t just document the journey, Sam also describes cultural differences, traditions and lifestyles of the various countries they cross, whilst painting a vivid picture of the terrain they cross… A really great read that’ll doubtless give you itchy feet…’ TBM - Trail Bike Magazine
'Distant Suns' is based on what Sam acknowledges are Birgit’s wonderfully descriptive diaries. The result is a strangely powerful combination of Sam's already masterful writing with the added perspectives of a travelling companion who is both in-tune and adding a different melody line to the rhythm of their journey together. Nich Brown - The Road Magazine
Signed copies available directly from the Author at: www.sam-manicom.com
Order your copy now!
Red Tape and White Knuckles: One Woman's Motorcycle Adventure Through Africa
by Lois Pryce
Paperback - 416 pages (5 Jun 2008)
Synopsis:
"To most thirty-something women, walking across the street to get a skinny latte and the latest copy of heat in excruciating high heels is an all-terrain task in itself. But Lois Pryce isn't just any woman - nine to five and post-work white wine spritzers have never been her thing. Unafraid of a challenge - having already ridden her motorbike from Alaska to the southernmost tip of South America - she decided she could never be one to settle for a last minute package holiday in Viva Espana. So, she began the kind of adventure most of us could only ever dream of. Donning her sparkly crash helmet and armed with her trusty maps and a baffling array of visas, Lois got on her bike once more to make an impressive international journey. Alone. No support vehicles, no fancy GPS and no satellite phone.Leaving from London, finishing in Cape Town - and the small matter of tackling the Sahara, war-torn Angola and the Congo Basin along the way - this feisty independent woman's grand trek through the Dark Continent of Africa is the definitive motorcycling adventure.
It was certainly never going to be easy but, equipped with a formidable strength of character and an immense passion for life, Lois Pryce's astonishing achievement is an inspiration to us all. She paints a vivid picture of travelling through the vast African landscape. Colourful and hilarious, 'Red Tape and White Knuckles' is an action-packed tale about following your dreams that will have you packing your bags and jetting off into the sunset on your own adventure before you know it."
"This book is designed to fill the reader with the confidence to plan and undertake a journey that he might otherwise not have thought possible. It will appeal to the person who has the means, both financially and otherwise, to consider a motorcycle adventure, as well as to those who might never be able to do so. The book delivers a practical and simple approach to planning for and embarking on a successful adventure on two wheels. A motorcycle journey of this sort is a significant undertaking and guiding the reader in the best possible way through the planning process is where the book's unique difference lies, providing insightful information, handy tips and specific, relevant information that first-time adventure riders will need to know."
On the way of Freedom
Enduro Adventure world wide tour, Riga to Melbourne 2006
DVD Description:
Story about the expedition of two
Latvians, who travelled 37,000
kilometers from Riga to Melbourne...
2 MEN
2 BIKES
12 COUNTRIES
3 CONTINENTS
"Inspired by the spirit of freedom and travel (of Long Way Round), we decided to go on a more serious
and harder expedition of 37,000 kilometers from Riga to Melbourne, which would
become a true test of endurance, unity and Latvian spirit both for us and all those,
who will support us in front of their TVs, following after the course of our
expedition and events during it."
It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor
- actor and self-confessed bike nut - noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world, with
just one short hop across the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. It was a revelation he couldn't get out
of his head. So he picked up the phone and called Charley Boorman, his best friend, fellow actor and bike enthusiast.
'Charley,' he said. 'I think you ought to come over for dinner...'
From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia
and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the
tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started. Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous
roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their stamina. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan,
courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls' testicles for supper by
Mongolian nomads.
And yet despite all these obstacles they managed to ride over 20,000 miles in four months, changing their lives forever
in the process. As they travelled they documented their trip, taking photographs, and writing diaries by
the campfire. Long Way Round is the result of their adventures - a fascinating, frank and highly entertaining travel
book about two friends riding round the world together and, against all the odds, realising their dream."
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