Total Control Advanced Riding Clinic January eNews

Better Riding Through Bamboo

After scouring the globe for the ultimate high-performance base layer material, who would have guessed it would come down to a 100% natural bamboo fiber? Lee Parks Design's exclusive Belanima™ Bamboo yarn is tough enough for extreme use yet feels halfway between between cotton and silk on your skin. This is absolutely the most comfortable fabric you will ever try on, GUARANTEED! We used a special Raglan cut to make it comfortable while riding a bike as well as just lounging around. Of course, we proudly make all our shirts in the USA. See for yourself why Belanima™ Bamboo is the only material you'll want against your skin while riding.

Why Bamboo?

SOFTNESS Bamboo fiber is softer than the softest cotton and effortlessly drapes on the skin. Its silky texture helps prevent leather and textile apparel from sticking to your body in hot conditions.
DURABILITY Significantly stronger than synthetics, bamboo does not snag or pill (ball up on the surface) like polyester. It can be conveniently machine washed and dried with your regular clothes
WICKING Unlike synthetic textiles such as microfiber polyester that require a chemical treatment to achieve their perspiration wicking qualities, bamboo is inherently wicking and maintains that ability forever.
Chemical treatments wash out over time, eventually leaving you with a rough, chaffing, non-wicking garment.
THERMAL REGULATING By being naturally breathable and keeping you dry, bamboo keeps you cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter like a sheepskin seat cover. It is the perfect base layer in any weather.
ECO-FRIENDLY Bamboo is nature’s most sustainable resource. One of the world’s most prolific plants, bamboo grows up to four feet a day to a height of 60 feet or more every four years.
Additionally, the fabric’s special agent “bamboo kunh” prevents bacteria from cultivating on it, making it naturally anti-microbial.

Lee Parks Design DeerSports PCi Riding Gloves

Premium insulated performance gloves provide the widest temperature range possible by utilizing an Outlast phase-change material liner in a patent-pending design. When your hands are cold, the liner acts like insulation and keeps heat in. When your hands get hot, it acts as a heat sink and pulls heat away. Additionally, when used with heated grips, it pulls the heat from the grips and distributes it around your hand. These are the only true insulated gloves that work with heated grips as most insulated gloves insulate you from the heat on the grips.

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Hi Folks,
I hope everyone had a great holiday season this year. In this Total Control newsletter you will find some tips for keeping warm this winter. Our Olympia, WA location signed up 16 students at the Seattle motorcycle show, so reserve your spot now for the first few classes or you may lose your opportunity! Coming later this spring, we will have an ARC date for the New England location being sponsored by Heli Bars in Cornish, ME, more details to follow. I will be personally teaching both Southern California and Arizona ARC classes for the next couple of months. If you're looking for the perfect gift for that hard-to-please riding buddy or family member, why not give them a gift certificate for a Total Control Advanced Riding Clinic. They are good at any of our locations and can be for the full amount or any amount in $25 denominations. Lee Parks Design gift certificates are also available in $25 denominations. For the ultimate gift to yourself or up to three people, I am also available for private lessons anywhere in the country, call 760-220-5045 for more info. More dates and locations will be opening up soon so check back on the totalcontroltraining.net site.

We are proud to now be selling Heli Bar products which we will have in stock at the shows. We've been recommending them to our students for years so it just made sense to offer them directly. If you've ever wanted to be more comfortable on your bike without losing any performance, and simultaneously improve the handling, Heli Bars are a no-brainer. Also check out our revolutionary bamboo riding wear shown on the left.

If you have received this mailing in error, click on the link at the bottom of this newsletter and you can remove your name from our list. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your past patronage and for your interest in our training.

January 2007
January 6, 2007 - Adelanto, CA 2 spots left! Register now!
January 27, 2007 - Gilbert, AZ Call 480-998-9888 to register

Feburary 2007
February 3, 2007 - Adelanto, CA

March 2007
March 3, 2006 - Adelanto, CA
March 25, 2007 - Poughkeepsie, NY
March 31, 2006 - Gilbert, AZ Call 480-998-9888 to register

April 2007
April 1, 2007 - Poughkeepsie, NY
April 7, 2007 - Troy, NY
April 15, 2007 - Poughkeepsie, NY
April 21, 2007 - Frederick, MD
April 21, 2007 - Troy, NY
April 28, 2007 - Frederick, MD
April 29, 2007 - Poughkeepsie, NY

May 2007
May 5, 2007 - Troy, NY
May 5, 2007 - Frederick, MD
May 6, 2007 - Poughkeepsie, NY
May 12, 2007 - Troy, NY
May 12, 2007 - Frederick, MD
May 19, 2007 - Olympia,WA NEW Class date, call (253) 531-4585 to register
May 20, 2007 - Poughkeepsie, NY
May 25-27, 2007 - Poughkeepsie, NY Instructor Training, MUST be pre-approved by Lee Parks

June 2007
June 2, 2007 - Poughkeepsie, NY
June 3, 2007 - Troy, NY
June 10, 2007 - Poughkeepsie, NY
June 23, 2007 - Olympia,WA NEW Class date, call (253) 531-4585 to register
June 23, 2007 - Frederick, MD
June 24, 2007 - Poughkeepsie, NY
June 30, 2007 - Frederick, MD

July 2007
July 14, 2007 - Frederick, MD
July 21, 2007 - Olympia,WA NEW Class date, call (253) 531-4585 to register
July 28, 2007 - Frederick, MD

August 2007
August 11, 2007 - Frederick, MD

September 2007
September 15, 2007 - Frederick, MD
September 15, 2007 - Olympia,WA NEW Class date, call (253) 531-4585 to register
September 16, 2007 - Poughkeepsie, NY

October 2007
October 6, 2007 - Frederick, MD
October 13, 2007 - Frederick, MD

To register or for more information contact:
AZ - www.motorcycletraining.com
CA - www.totalcontroltraining.net
IL - www.privatetracktime.com
MD - www.totalcontroltraining.net
MI - www.totalcontroltraining.net
NY (Mid-State) - www.christineskickstart.com
NY (Upstate) - www.hvcc.edu
WA - www.pugetsoundsafety.com
WI - www.privatetracktime.com

How To Keep Your Fingers and Toes Warm

Riding this time of year means overcoming Mother Nature’s seasonally cold disposition. A question I get asked a lot is, “Why do my fingers and toes get cold before the rest of my body.” The answer starts with how your body protects its core organs. Think of your body as a radiator with your skin as the fins and your blood as the liquid. Your blood flows throughout your body carrying heat along with all its other important cargo. Skin transfers that heat to the air which helps keep us from overheating in hot weather, but can allow for too much heat loss in colder weather. To keep its internal temperature around the core at 98.6 degrees, your body will start to restrict blood flow to the outer extremities (fingers and toes) first. This reduces the effective surface area exposed to the air which helps reduce heat loss. Unfortunately, it makes our fingers and toes cold.

So the first way to help keep your fingers and toes warm is to keep our upper body warm with more layers, better insulation, heated vests, etc. Because good blood flow is key to keeping warm, having gloves and socks that are too tight also makes our fingers and toes get cold prematurely. This is why our insulated gloves are cut a little bit looser than our warm-weather gloves. Air is also a good insulator (look at double pane glass windows) so a little room between your finger tips and the end of the glove can help keep heat in. This is also why our TechSox have air channels woven into them. The air acts as an insulator in cold weather yet helps sweat evaporate in warm weather to keep you cooler.

Heated grips will also help but remember that traditional insulated gloves insulate you from the heat on the grips just like they insulate you from the cold. This is why we use Outlast SmartFabric Phase-Change material as a liner in our PCi gloves. It allows the heat from the grips to come in but the Thinsulate insulation on the back of the hand keeps it from escaping.

It is worth noting that because your neck is the part of your body where the most blood flows the closest to the skin, this is a critical part to keep warm to keep your whole body warm. Therefore, the use of some type of neck gaiter and insulation will pay big dividends to your overall comfort, as well as your fingers and toes.

I’ll end by saying that staying warm isn’t just for comfort—it’s also for safety. Cold muscles are not as sensitive to changes in the road or traction and react much slower than warmed up muscles. This is part of why all top professional athletes “warm up” before performing critical movements.

—Lee Parks

Meet Lee Parks at these upcoming events!

CYCLE WORLD International Motorcycle Shows Washington, DC - January 13-15, 2007. Lee Parks will NOT be attending. Frederick, MD Tracy Martin ARC site administrator and instructor will be attending. New York, NY - January 19-21, 2007 - Booth #575 Chicago, IL - Feburary 9-11, 2007 Bring your Total Control book for a free autograph!

Need more comfort on your ride? We will be selling the same world famous HELI Bars that Total Control instructors use on their own bikes at the CycleWorld International Motorcycle Shows listed above. Stop by for a free ergonomic evaluation by Lee Parks. HELI Bars can now be found at www.leeparksdesign.com

Ship Your Bike Safely and Economically!

As the nations leading motorcycle transportation company, JC Motors transports motorcycles and ATV's worldwide. Total Control Training has been shipping bikes with JC Motors exclusively since 2000 and has never been let down with their service or pricing. They are the originators of the uncrated shipping program with North American Specialized Transportation. Their extensive background in the motorcycle industry led to the development of the safest and most expedient motorcycle transport methods including proper training for each driver. If you ever need to ship your bike somewhere, you can use them with confidence. Tell them that Total Control Training sent you.

Lee Parks Design
PO Box 1838
Victorville, CA 92393
www.leeparksdesign.com
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