Firstly because they are really badly written (Andy would have given him a real telling off if he'd been posting on the forum
), but secondly (and this may well just be me of course) I find riding a bike is a really 'organic' and wholistic experience (er, man 
) that can't easily be broken down (other than for descriptive purposes after the fact) in the way Code describes it. I tried on a couple of occasions putting some of Code's stuff into practice and found that I went considerably slower because I was spending too much time actively thinking about what I was doing rather than just going with what 'felt' right. I seem to remember him even talking about getting all of the braking out of the way before turning in and stuff like that. That's all well and good on some heavy evil-handling old 80s 750 superbike or something, but it just doesn't translate at all to how I (and most of us here I'd think - on the track anyway) ride a 250 stroker, where you can trail the brake right to the apex, and then get straight back on the gas. In all, the only stuff I thought was accurate were descriptions of things that are such common sense that they hardly need stating - working out and then 'adjusting' braking markers etc.
Like I said, maybe it's just me, or maybe I didn't follow it properly? The way it was written certainly frustrated me, so perhaps that had some bearing on things, but overall I thought it was little more than an overly-anal disection of the procedure of riding a bike quickly from the mind of a smack-addled fool
Like I said, heresy to some, but that was my experience of it. I'm with Mr. Ett. A load of old cobblers!
Maybe I should have another read when I'm in a less dismissive-of-Californian-psychobabble-and-gobbledegook frame of mind? Nah, better things to do with my time - like riding!
Wb
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