Keith Code

File:Keith Code at California Superbike School at controls of Honda CBR600RR with rider.jpg

Code founded the California Superbike School in 1980. Code's methodology has been taught to numerous championship winning riders such as Wayne Rainey, James Toseland and Leon Camier.{{cite book |last=Holmstrom |first=Darwin |title=Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VGrp5Pjsf4UC&q=%22Keith+Code%22&pg=PA306 |accessdate=2008-01-20 |year=2001 |publisher=Alpha Books |isbn=0-02-864258-9 |page=306 }} As of 2019, riders who have been trained either at his schools or by him personally have won 60 world and national racing championships. His teaching has been spread all over the world. His California Superbike Schools have operated at over 90 tracks worldwide in 15 countries and have trained 150,000 riders.

In 2006 he was tasked by the United States Marine Corps to design a rider training program that would be effective in reducing serious motorcycle accidents among USMC riders. The program, called Advanced Motorcycle Operator School, is now considered the gold standard of rider training by Marine safety personnel due to its graduates' extraordinary safety record over a four-year period.{{Cite web|url=http://www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Documents/media/seashore/smartride/Smart_Ride09.pdf |title=Smart Ride |date=Spring 2009 |publisher=U.S. Naval Safety Center |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324213109/http://www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Documents/media/seashore/smartride/Smart_Ride09.pdf |archivedate=2012-03-24 }}

Code has invented rider training devices such as the No Body Steering Bike which illustrates the necessity for counter-steering to be used, the Lean and Slide Bike Trainers that train not only good body positioning and visual skills but also allow riders to experience sliding the machine with much reduced possibility of crashing, and the Panic Braking Trainer that allows riders to experience front wheel lock up and learn how to recover from it.{{Cite web|url=http://www.superbikeschool.com/machinery/ |title=Machinery |publisher=California Superbike School |accessdate=2009-05-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090504083001/http://www.superbikeschool.com/machinery/ |archivedate=2009-05-04 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/boating/1277436.html |date=February 2001 |title=Keith Code's No Body Steering Motorcycle |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502174027/http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/boating/1277436.html |archivedate=2008-05-02 |first=Cliff |last=Gromer |url-status=dead }}{{Citation |url= http://www.soundrider.com/archive/safety-skills/nobsbike.htm |title= Keith Code's No BS bike |first= David L. |last= Hough |authorlink= David L. Hough |magazine = Sound RIDER! }}

Code wrote a monthly column in Motorcyclist magazine called Code Break. He has also opened a specialized school for racing techniques, called Code R.A.C.E.{{cite web|url=http://www.rubbermag.com/news/0707/070720_01.html |title=CODE R.A.C.E Program |accessdate=2008-01-20 |work=Rubber Magazine |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613173745/http://www.rubbermag.com/news/0707/070720_01.html |archivedate=2008-06-13 }} He has written three books about sportsbike riding and racing techniques, and also one feature length DVD covering the content of his second A Twist of the Wrist book.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} His works have been translated into Russian, German, Estonian, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Dutch and Turkish.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

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Keith Code practices Scientology,{{cite news |url=http://superbikeschool.com/files/code-rw-interview.pdf |title=14 Questions For A Speed Guru |first=John |last=Ulrich |publisher=Roadracing World & Motorcycle Technology |issue=4 |volume=15 |date=April 2005 |via=Superbike School |access-date=January 19, 2023 }} and the Church of Scientology has quoted him:

{{blockquote|Well, I didn't have an occupation. At the time, my idea toward life was to see how little I could do and basically how much and how many kinds of drugs I could take. I wasn't doing anything with my life. When I got into Scientology a lot changed right away. For the first time ever, I saw that there was hope and that was very encouraging. When I received Scientology counseling to handle my drug problem, my life started going up and up and up and hasn't stopped since.|Keith Code{{cite web|url=http://whatisscientology.org/html/Part05/Chp19/pg0326.html |title=Successes Of Scientology |accessdate=2011-09-15 |work=What is Scientology? |publisher=Church of Scientology International |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209011310/http://whatisscientology.org/html/Part05/Chp19/pg0326.html |archivedate=February 9, 2009 }}}}

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• {{cite book |last=Code |first=Keith |title=Twist of the Wrist: The Motorcycle Roadracers Handbook |year=1983 |publisher=Code Break |location=USA |isbn=9780965045018 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/twistofwristmoto00code }}
• {{cite book |last=Code |first=Keith |title=A Twist of the Wrist 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding |year=1997 |publisher=Code Break |location=USA |isbn= 0-9650450-2-1}}
• {{cite book |last=Code |first=Keith |author2=David Gordon |title=A Gear Higher: The Bicycle Racer's Handbook of Techniques

|year=1998 |publisher=Haynes Publishing |location=USA |isbn=0-9650450-0-5}}

• {{cite book |last=Code |first=Keith |title=Soft Science of Roadracing Motorcycles: The Technical Procedures and Workbook for Roadracing Motorcycles |year=1998 |publisher=Code Break |location=USA |isbn= 0-9650450-3-X}}
• {{cite book |last=Ibbott |first=Andy |author2=Keith Code |title=Performance Riding Techniques: The MotoGP manual of track riding skills |year=2006 |publisher=Haynes Publishing |location=USA |isbn= 1-84425-343-0}}

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