Free-riding

This handbook is a gem. Being a longtime boarder, I decided to make a point to increase my awareness of terrain and route selection in the backcountry and get more familliar with avies. This book is helping me accomplish that goal.

Info is straight forward, has practice examples to test your knowledge on when to ride and when to walk away from certain conditions, lots of pics to help explain terrain features and in depth "how to's" on testing snow strength, as well as detailed instructions on correct probing technique.

Added bonus: Craig Kelly helped contribute to the info in this book, and hence there are many pictures of him throughout. Much love to our fallen hero.

Worth $8.00? Oh heck yeah. Small price to pay to save the life of your friends and your own.

Great book. Excellent infomation and pictures. Not too tech. Good first book to read on the subject or to reinforce current knowledge.

As a prior student of Dr. MacKenzie's I can attest to his knowledge and ability first hand. This is a great book and his methods are tried and true. I have used his method of training on many OTTB's with great success. This book is a must have for anyone wanting to learn the art of free-lungeing.

If you like all the "horse-whisperer" and natural horsemanship trainers, you will love this excellent little book. When I was an undergraduate student, I had the opportunity to see Dr. MacKenzie work with some horses. It was an amazing demonstration of the language of horses. This book is easy to read and understand and NOT full of hype...I recommend it to all my equestrian friends.

If you think women riding their own motorcycles is something new or have wondered why so many women have decided to venture into a predominately male culture, then this book is for you. The author covers all areas pertaining to women involved in motorcycling. It is a history lesson mixed with stories and thoughts of the modern day female rider.

Dr. Asmus is with the Center for Policy Analysis, a libertarian think-tank. The book is an excellent blend of philosophy and real data, all of which is geared toward explaining how many of the functions performed by governments today would be better off in the hands of private enterprise. The book has two shortcomings: 1. It was inspired by the election of Clinton in 1992 and the subsequent 1994 "Republican Revolution", and, as such, much of the material is time-sensitive and will soon be outdated, and 2. Dr. Asmus' attempts at poetry. The main strength of the book is its abundance of real data to justify its points -- something often lacking in dissertations of opposing viewpoints. The only premise that the reader is asked to unconditionally accept is the idea that economic growth is good

I've had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Asmus speak twice at business conventions before purchasing any of his books, and he is one of the most entertaining as well as persuasive proponents of privatization. He is one of the best public speakers I have listened to. This book is not unlike his actual presentation, although he's even funnier in real life. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to see how government is NOT the solution to every single problem in life - regardless of what some politician says on TV. A must for anyone who is interested in government, politics and how they impact the economy. A good read!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Dr. Asmus' ideas about the way things were, the way they are, and the way they will be. Specifically, he makes very powerful arguments that we should be very cautious when it comes to government control over anything. Why, he ponders, would we want to have the government do anything when the private sector through free markets can do it better and cheaper. Government is by nature a monopoly which can not simply "go out of business" if it isn't efficient. Compare this to a business which is constantly upgrading and improving in order to stay one step ahead of the competition. I read this book in 4 days and couldn't put it down. Since then, I have never looked at the U.S. government the same. Read this book, and you won't either!

Zimmerman's easy read of Barger's memories is a bit of history. One begins quite quickly to realize this history lacks credibility. Barger has reinvented the story of the gang-beating of Hunter Thompson. Skip Workman himself admitted in a 1967 television interview that women once in a while needed to be beaten like a rug. A woman's beating is the reason Thompson expressed his disapproval and was subsequently beaten (Workman's comments were specific to the Thompson beating). Barger softens the story in the book, as part of his overall attempt to change the reputation of the club and make them appear to be heroes. Barger further hopes to canonize himself through this self-fashioning. Once this credibility is broken, one cannot help but question the account of Barger's wife's accidental death while attempting to self abort. Barger freely admits he did not want children. As long as you are ready to indulge the over 60 Barger's attempt to use this quick read to convince you he is an American hero (he supported the Vietnam war), take a peek, it won't take much of your time.

This is one of the best books I have read on the biker lifestyle. One story got my interest up for the next and made putting the book down near impossible. It would make a great "First" of a series on biker stories. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who travels on two wheeles and lives by the adage, "Live to Ride, Ride to Live".

What a blast! Some of the stories are a little long in the tooth, but, like the preface says, who cares??? As long as they're entertaining, which most of them are. A few are outright boring, but the gems more than make up for them. Nice short stories, so you can leave it and pick it up as you wish. Well recommended!

I was very disappointed in this book by Richard Shrake. I have read his other articles in the free horse newspaper and they are very good and informative. In this book the only thing you get out of it is that you should breath on your horse. The entire book is about that.