Press Reviews

Can going faster be taught?

The art of road racing has to be one of motorcycling's best-kept secrets. There aren't any books entitled How to Road Race, when your fingers walk through the Yellow Pages they won't trip over any racing schools, and squeezing information from established experts is near to impossible.

Rich Cox, Editor Motorcyclist Magazine (1977)

It was in 1976 that Keith started the Rider Improvement Program. This was a one on one training class that got the attention of the US motorcycle press immediately. In fact it was Roadracing World's John Ulrich who first posed the question in his 1977 article written for Cycle News: "Can 'going faster' be taught?" In the article, Ulrich answers the question about Keith Code's program: "It helped me become an aggressive, confident, capable-of-winning club racer in a very short time".

Road racing has often been described as a "thinking man's sport". Keith's approach has kept with that saying.

Code is relentless. He won't tell you what to do; he'll tell you how to figure it out yourself.

Tony Swan, Editor Cycle World (1978)

Keith's written material allows you to do just that.

Keith pioneered an area that had not previously been fully explored. In fact, by 1977, Keith had already put in 3,000 hours of research in the area of riding. This included interviewing riders, collecting data and transforming it into actual written material. This was just the very beginning of many more thousands of hours that went into developing the Twist of the Wrist books and The Soft Science of Road Racing Motorcycles. Since that point Keith has trained 43 national and world champions with more on the way.

Well known MotoGP TV commentator Julian Ryder named A Twist of the Wrist as one of motorcycling's most essential books.

It is the only 'how to' book I have ever seen racers studying in national and international paddocks.

Julian Ryder

Not only has Keith proven he can train champions, he's proven he can train other coaches to train champions. Case in point is the 2005 125cc GP World Champion Thomas Luthi, who was coached by the California Superbike School's UK branch director Andy Ibbott.