Author Description

Brent Allen has been riding since he was eighteen and training riders for close to a decade. In this book he offers insights from his years of riding and from his experience training other riders. Not an authoritative "how-to" book, The Elemental Motorcylist offers advice in a conversational tone, often using amusing anecdotes and observations to illustrate its message. Brent does not try to pound home hard-and-fast rules for riding, but offers gentle suggestions for riders to consider as they grow in their riding experience. Brent is not above having made mistakes and admits it, but when he recalls his youthful mistakes it is to help others choose a better path. Brent has divided these essays into four "elements," each element loosely denoting a particular flavor of the motorcycling experience: Earth for the groundwork of choosing and buying a motorcycle and the basic skills one needs starting out of the gate. Air for the "ethereal feeling of euphoria that owning your first bike brings." Fire for the things experienced riding that may try us, but hopefully improve us once passed through. Water for that place you come to when you're one with the bike and "in the zone." Brent Allen has been training riders since 2003 with the IdahoSTAR program. He also has worked as a television journalist, producer, and director and is a high school broadcast instructor. He has utilized these skills to produce a series of light-hearted "Howzit Done?" instructional videos to help motorcyclists hone their skills. Known as "Captain Crash" on YouTube, Brent's video lessons have been viewed over 800,000 times. Brent's first book, Motorcycles, Life, and..., was published by Road Dog Publications in 2011 as our first title. We are proud to bring you another book filled with Brent's useful and entertaining insights.