My latest book was The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Travel.  It was a pretty good how-to book about all the gear and considerations for going on motorcycle trips.  Most of it was pretty self-evident, but I did get some good ideas from the book.

I was surprised that many motorcycle riders like wooden beads as pads on their seats.  One of the keys is that the beads keep an air flow under your seat so that you don't get so sweaty.  I have a gel pad for my seat which is pretty comfortable. 

I was very interested in the new fabrics for riding.  The Outlast brand of temperature regulating fabrics sounds pretty amazing. But I was most impressed with his opinion (apparently shared by many riders) that their best garment was an electrically-heated vest.  That impressed me!  I have been cold on a bike and a heated vest sounds like just the item.  I have looked online and found kits for putting electric heating into a vest. Does that sound safe?  I would be a little nervous about making my own electric gear.  I think a mistake might be shocking!

Well, I learned a bit from this book, but it's wasn't great. Most of the items were rather obvious.