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Cycling's Greatest Misadventures

Author : Erich Schweikher
Publisher : Casagrande Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0976951622
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Cycling's Greatest Misadventures written by Erich Schweikher and published by Casagrande Press LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyclings Greatest Misadventures is the first book to collect jaw dropping true stories of not only pros but average bikers whose experiences range from terrifying to comical to downright bizarre. The book contains 25 true, gripping, and sometimes unbelievable stories of crashes, freak accidents, animal attacks, meltdowns, race sabotages and bad judgment calls that bring to life the strange things that happen once people step on the pedals of their road, mountain, or commuter bikes. Youll read about a mountain biker stampeded by a herd of cattle; A man who attempted to jump the Great Wall of China on a bicycle; An engineer who finds hope riding in the rubble left by Hurricane Katrina, and many more. The stories will bring you to the edge of your seat, warm your heart, make you laugh and leave you shaking your head with disbelief. Follow up book to the successful Surfings Greatest Misadventures by Casagrande Press.

One Day Ahead

Author : Richard Grady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781075930621
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book One Day Ahead written by Richard Grady and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "absolutely fantastic read. Couldn't put it down" "a lovely account of real achievement" "very well written and funny" "an honest and humorous book" "really enjoyed following the One Day Ahead team around France" One Day Ahead: A Tour de France Misadventure It didn't even seem like a good idea when first suggested so how did Richard Grady get hooked into a 5000 kilometre drive around France in a motorhome? Maybe it was the lure of the world's premiere cycle race - The Tour de France - or possibly the desire to help a friend that seduced him but somehow he found himself as a member of the backup team to four riders cycling the Tour route one day ahead of the professional racers. Driving hundreds of kilometres every day, performing a variety of mundane chores and dealing with the vagaries of his travelling companions all combined to create a three week journey he regretted from the start. In this hilarious account Richard relates the misadventures of the 'One Day Ahead' team as they battle with the challenge of cycling the 3,497 km Tour de France route and he and the stalwart Sara battle to give the riders the best possible chance of achieving their goal. Filled with amusing anecdotes and facts this is a fascinating insight into the Tour de France for avid fans and the general reader alike. 'One Day Ahead: A Tour de France Misadventure' was written on the suggestion of his psychologist girlfriend/therapist(!) after Richard struggled for two years to get over the experience. Every book sold helps. Warning: Contains some moaning however this will not be harmful to your health. "cracking read and has got me planning my own cycling adventures" "a Tour de Force. I admire anyone who takes on a challenge like this" "a humorous book with many a chuckle at the woes of the hard done by support team" "Richard made you feel like you were actually there & thankful, given some of the situations they got into, that you weren't!" "by far the best cycling related book I have read in the last few years. I really did not want it to end"

Did Not Sink

Author : George Mahood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Did Not Sink written by George Mahood and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lure of a gold-coloured silicon hat is enough to convince George to sign up once again to the Dart 10k swim. But to get the gold hat, he has to swim it twice. Despite the trauma of the previous year's Dartmoor Classic, George and Rachel sign up again. This time the weather takes a turn for the worse and Rachel is forced to make some creative wardrobe improvisations. Having completed several long bike rides, George now considers himself a relatively experienced cyclist. On the road. Off-road riding, however, is something completely unfamiliar to him. His body (mostly his more sensitive areas) takes one hell of a beating during his first ever mountain-bike adventure. Did Not Finish is a series of books about George and his family's adventures in running, cycling and swimming. From ultramarathons to triathlons, 10k swims to European cycling adventures, George promises fun and laughter every step, pedal, and paddle of the way.

Cycling's Strangest Tales

Author : Iain Spragg
Publisher : Portico
ISBN 13 : 1911042904
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Cycling's Strangest Tales written by Iain Spragg and published by Portico. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary but true stories from 200 years of cycling history. Part of the bestselling Strangest series, Cycling’s Strangest Tales is a quirky and fascinating collection of stories from cycling’s history. Included are stories of Thomas Stevens, the doughty Englishman who circumnavigated the world on a penny farthing, the 1904 Tour de France winner who was disqualified for catching the train, the 1937 Japanese invasion of China spearheaded by 50,000 bicycle-mounted troops, and the man who soared over nine circus elephants on an ordinary yellow bike. The stories come from every corner of the cycling world, whether it’s the open road, the velodrome or the BMX track. Brought bang up to date for 2017 with a selection of new stories, Cycling’s Strangest Tales is the perfect gift for anyone who’s in love with life on two wheels. Word count: 45,000

Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World

Author : Graydon Hazenberg
Publisher : Graydon Hazenberg
ISBN 13 : 9781777593612
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World written by Graydon Hazenberg and published by Graydon Hazenberg. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, Graydon Hazenberg, his sisters and their partners set off on a youthful quest. Seduced by the romance of the loftiest peaks on earth and a road claimed to be the world's highest, they pedalled out of Islamabad, Pakistan headed for Tibet's holiest mountain, the pilgrimage site of Mt. Kailash. Had they known how hard it would be on their equipment, their bodies and their willpower, they might have thought twice. Calling themselves the Xtreme Dorks, the five cyclists pedalled, pushed and hiked their way around, over and through the world's highest mountain ranges. For three months they persevered despite a frequent lack of food or anything resembling a real road. They followed in the footsteps of previous pilgrims, explorers and mountaineers, passing through remote valleys and wind-scoured plateaux. Along the way they had the privilege of meeting members of some of the cultures that call the Roof of the World home: the Pakhtuns of the Northwest Frontier; the Kalash people of Chitral; the Baltis living around K2; the longlived Hunzakut; the Kyrgyz, Tajiks and Uighurs of western Xinjiang; and the dokpa nomadic herders inhabiting western Tibet. It was not a straightforward journey. Plagued by frequent equipment failures, recurrent illness, abysmal road conditions and efforts by the Chinese Public Security Bureau to stop them cycling to Tibet, it required real determination to keep the pedals turning in the direction of Kailash. Initial exuberance gradually acquired some of the resolve shown by hardy Tibetan and Hindu pilgrims as the Dorks approached the far-off mountain with glacial slowness. Even once they had reached Kailash and nearby Lake Manasarovar, their troubles were not over, as their onward travel by vehicle towards Lhasa proved every bit as challenging as cycling had been. Graydon Hazenberg has taken the account of this long-ago pilgrimage and brought it to life in the present, interweaving it with stories of the history and culture of the places encountered along the way. The result is a compelling tale that will entertain seasoned adventurers, cycle tourists, history buffs and armchair travellers of all descriptions. As John Keay, the distinguished British writer of numerous books about the Indian subcontinent's history, says of Pedalling to Kailash, "It was a brutal marathon, but it makes for an engrossing read."

San Diego Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Diego Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Diego Magazine gives readers the insider information they need to experience San Diego-from the best places to dine and travel to the politics and people that shape the region. This is the magazine for San Diegans with a need to know.

Moron to Moron

Author : Tom Doig
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743434391
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Moron to Moron written by Tom Doig and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 2010, Tom Doig and his best mate Tama Pugsley cycled 1487 kilometres across northern Mongolia from a small town called Moron to a smaller town also called Moron. Why? Because it was there. Armed with spandex unitards, Chinese steel-frame mountain bikes, unidentifiable meat product and a woefully inadequate phrasebook, these two morons blunder into some of the world's most remote and beautiful wilderness--and triumph. Sort of. For 23 brutalising days--two days longer than the Tour de France--Tom and Tama slog their way over muddy mountains and across desolate steppes, all the time struggling to avoid Mongolia's legendary hospitality. This hilarious, thoroughly shonky odyssey overflows with sweat, miscommunication and torrents of Chinggis Khaan vodka--named after Genghis Khan, the greatest warrior who ever lived. Moron to Moron is a travel book like none other. It has it all: pleasure, pain, heartache, heartburn and the dried fermented milk of a horse.

Velo News

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Velo News written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cycling Home from Siberia

Author : Rob Lilwall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781451607871
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Cycling Home from Siberia written by Rob Lilwall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ It is late October, and the temperature is already –40 degrees . . . My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts; and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.” Having left his job as a high-school geography teacher, Rob Lilwall arrived in Siberia equipped only with a bike and a healthy dose of fear. Cycling Home from Siberia recounts his epic three-and-a-half-year, 30,000-mile journey back to England via the foreboding jungles of Papua New Guinea, an Australian cyclone, and Afghanistan’s war-torn Hindu Kush. A gripping story of endurance and adventure, this is also a spiritual journey, providing poignant insight into life on the road in some of the world’s toughest corners.

Skateboarding and Religion

Author : Paul O'Connor
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030248577
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Skateboarding and Religion written by Paul O'Connor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. Paul O’Connor contends that religious identification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has become an increasingly mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help.

The F-Word

Author : Jesse Sheidlower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199751552
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The F-Word written by Jesse Sheidlower and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know what frak, popularized by television's cult hit Battlestar Galactica, really means. But what about feck? Or ferkin? Or foul--as in FUBAR, or "Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition"? In a thoroughly updated edition of The F-Word, Jesse Sheidlower offers a rich, revealing look at the f-bomb and its illimitable uses. Since the fifteenth century, no other word has been adapted, interpreted, euphemized, censored, and shouted with as much ardor or force; imagine Dick Cheney telling Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy to "go damn himself" on the Senate floor--it doesn't have quite the same impact as what was really said. Sheidlower cites this and other notorious examples throughout history, from the satiric sixteenth-century poetry of James Cranstoun to the bawdy parodies of Lord Rochester in the seventeenth century, to more recent uses by Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Ann Sexton, Norman Mailer, Liz Phair, Anthony Bourdain, Junot Diaz, Jenna Jameson, Amy Winehouse, Jon Stewart, and Bono (whose use of the word at the Grammys nearly got him fined by the FCC). Collectively, these references and the more than one hundred new entries they illustrate double the size of The F-Word since its previous edition. Thousands of added quotations come from newly available electronic databases and the resources of the OED, expanding the range of quotations to cover British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Irish, and South African uses in addition to American ones. Thus we learn why a fugly must hone his or her sense of humor, why Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau muttered "fuddle duddle" in the Commons, and why Fanny Adams is so sweet. A fascinating introductory essay explores the word's history, reputation, and changing popularity over time. and a new Foreword by comedian, actor, and author Lewis Black offers readers a smart and entertaining take on the book and its subject matter. Oxford dictionaries have won renown for their expansive, historical approach to words and their etymologies. The F-Word offers all that and more in an entertaining and informative look at a word that, while now largely accepted as an integral part of the English language, still confounds, provokes, and scandalizes.

Did Not Enter

Author : George Mahood
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Did Not Enter written by George Mahood and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to turn 40, George and Rachel decide to take a break from the usual organised events, instead seeking adventure elsewhere. Two different cycling adventures in France follow. One a race against time. The other a race against wine. To celebrate his milestone birthday, George and Rachel take on their longest run yet - 40 miles along Britain's oldest road. There's yoga, a funeral, self-imposed running and swimming challenges, and a marathon with the hangover from hell. A new hairy, four-legged addition to the Mahood family brings more fun, adventure... and rosettes. Did Not Finish is a series of books about George and his family's adventures in running, cycling and swimming. From ultramarathons to triathlons, 10k swims to European cycling adventures, George promises fun and laughter every step, pedal, and paddle of the way.

Did Not Sink

Author : George Mahood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Did Not Sink written by George Mahood and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lure of a gold-coloured silicon hat is enough to convince George to sign up once again to the Dart 10k swim. But to get the gold hat, he has to swim it twice. Despite the trauma of the previous year's Dartmoor Classic, George and Rachel sign up again. This time the weather takes a turn for the worse and Rachel is forced to make some creative wardrobe improvisations. Having completed several long bike rides, George now considers himself a relatively experienced cyclist. On the road. Off-road riding, however, is something completely unfamiliar to him. His body (mostly his more sensitive areas) takes one hell of a beating during his first ever mountain-bike adventure. Did Not Finish is a series of books about George and his family's adventures in running, cycling and swimming. From ultramarathons to triathlons, 10k swims to European cycling adventures, George promises fun and laughter every step, pedal, and paddle of the way.

Poets & Writers

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Poets & Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Riding Outside The Lines

Author : Joe Kurmaskie
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1400047986
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riding Outside The Lines written by Joe Kurmaskie and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a modern-day Don Quixote, Joe Kurmaskie—bike adventurer, writer, and twelve-year-old boy trapped in a man’s body—wanders the world on two wheels, often with hilarious results, in Riding Outside the Lines. A jaunt through such far-flung locations as Ireland, Australia, Mexico, South America, and beyond, here is a collection of tales woven together with one central theme: the world is a much smaller place when you view it from the seat of a bicycle. Whether he’s weekending in the buff after accidentally stumbling into a nudist colony wedding, knocking back red wine in tin cans with a gun-toting ex–bounty hunter, combing the countryside in a quest to find the all-girl bagpipe squad he met in his dreams, or playing a rousing game of ice golf on the frozen tundra, Joe Kurmaskie writes of his gonzo global trek in a spirit infused with insight, good humor, and optimism. Riding Outside the Lines encourages travel buffs and armchair explorers alike to get on your bike and see the beauty of our planet and the colorful souls who populate it.

Did Not Start

Author : George Mahood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Did Not Start written by George Mahood and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel marks her cycling sportive debut in style with 110 horrendously hilly miles that are apparently all George's fault. Now officially a better marathon runner than George - and a rapidly improving cyclist and swimmer - Rachel is pushed to the limits after reluctantly agreeing to an ultramarathon. Did Not Start also features more family camping holidays, a visit to Paris, the arrival of the Beast from the East, and some unexpected news from a former neighbour. Did Not Finish is a series of books about George and his family's adventures in running, cycling and swimming. From ultramarathons to triathlons, 10k swims to European cycling adventures, George promises fun and laughter every step, pedal, and paddle of the way.

The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle

Author : Christina Uss
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823441083
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle written by Christina Uss and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A determined 12-year-old girl bikes across the country in this quirky and charming debut middle grade novel. Introverted Bicycle has lived most of her life at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. When her guardian, Sister Wanda, announces that Bicycle is going to attend a camp where she will learn to make friends, Bicycle says no way and sets off on her bike for San Francisco to meet her idol, a famous cyclist, certain he will be her first true friend. Who knew that a ghost would haunt her handlebars and that she would have to contend with bike-hating dogs, a bike-loving horse, bike-crushing pigs, and a mysterious lady dressed in black. Over the uphills and downhills of her journey, Bicycle discovers that friends are not such a bad thing to have after all, and that a dozen cookies really can solve most problems.