When one is riding long distances, like 200 miles, one often has "experiences":some good, some not so.
But good judgment comes from experience,
and the best remembered/learned from "experiences"are the ones that came from bad judgment (or bad luck).
This book captures some of those experiences, the good, but mostly the well remembered bad ones. This is the feedstock and the capture of knowledge for the other books on How to !!FAIL!! at STP.