[PDF] Just One Ride eBook

Author : Grant Petersen
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0761171274

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“No matter what or how you ride, read this book and remind yourself just how enjoyable cycling can and should be.”—Eben Weiss, author of The Enlightened Cyclist Just Ride is a revelation. Forget the ultralight, uncomfortable bikes, flashy jerseys, clunky shoes that clip onto tiny pedals, the grinding out of endless miles. Instead, ride like you did when you were a kid—just get on your bike and discover the pure joy of riding it. A reformed racer who’s commuted by bike every day since 1980, whose writings and opinions appear in major bicycling and outdoor magazines, and whose company, Rivendell Bicycle Works, makes bikes for riders ready to opt out of a culture overrun by racing, Grant Petersen shares a lifetime of unexpected facts, controversial opinions, expert techniques, and his own maverick philosophy. In 87 short, two-to-three page chapters, it covers: Riding: Count Days, Not Miles; Corner Like Jackie Robinson; Steer with Your Hips, Shift with Your Legs Suiting Up: The Shoes Ruse; Ponchos—the Ultimate Unracer’s Garment Safety: #1 Rule—Be Seen; Helmets Aren’t All They’re Cracked Up to Be Health and Fitness: Why Riding Is Lousy All-Around Exercise; Saddles Don’t Cause Impotence; Drink When You’re Thirsty—Not Before Also includes chapters on Accessories, Upkeep, and Technicalities, and a final chapter titled “Velosophy” that includes the essential, memorable thought: Your Bike Is a Toy—Have Fun with It. Winner Silver Medal 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards

Author : Samantha Montague
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781736931042

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Summer has arrived and Ayla is awaiting the return of her fiancé, who's been away at college. His return is delayed, but she pushes forward with her normal summer plans, including working as a bar maid during the local motorcycle week. Kane is a biker, not just a weekend warrior, a true hard core biker. He's VP of his club and wants nothing more than to enjoy a week full of girls and booze as he rides along to New Hampshire's annual motorcycle week. A chance meeting will change them both.

Author : Janice Mitchell
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1598511173

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A true-adventure, coming-of-age tale set in the exhilarating first wave of Beatlemania … It’s 1964, and 16-year-old Janice is struggling in a grim foster home in Cleveland when she falls suddenly, deeply in love … with the Beatles. They and their music stir in her an ecstatic new sense of freedom. With a friend, she hatches a bold plan to escape their dreary lives and run away to London to meet the Fab Four. On their own for the first time—in “Beatleland”—they explore a new city, a new culture, and a new life, visiting the hippest clubs of Soho, meeting some nice English boys, hitchhiking to Liverpool … But unbeknownst to them, the runaways have become international news—and a hunt is on. Adventure and newfound freedom end abruptly when Janice is apprehended by London police and hauled home to Cleveland and an unforgiving juvenile justice system. Warned by responsible adults to put it all behind her, she doesn’t speak of her extraordinary adventure for more than fifty years. In this memoir, she looks back with fresh insight on the heady early days of Beatlemania and an era in America when young women exercising some control over their lives presented a serious threat to adult society.

Author : Ty Hopkins
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781796843187

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Just Ride is a detailed story of the 2018 Tour Divide, a 2,725-mile mountain bike race along the Continental Divide from Banff, Alberta, Canada to the Mexican border crossing at Antelope Wells, New Mexico. The book gives a realistic and often raw account of the physical and mental toll required to finish the race in less than 17 days. The route, the conditions, the gear, the strategy, the training, the mental struggles, and the physical battle are all detailed in a story that gives a genuine look into what was experienced and felt throughout the ultimate test of mountain bike endurance. In addition, Just Ride summarizes data that were collected before, during, and following the race. The huge amount of collected data tell a story of how the body broke down and how it amazingly adapted to the 2,725-mile ordeal. The book also details how the mind was central to creating and breaking down the barriers that stood in the way of progress each day. The Tour Divide was an incredible adventure that offered the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. In the end, the race boiled down to one simple task: Just Ride.

Author : Chris Raschka
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0375870075

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“[Raschka's] marvelous sequences, fluid style, and emotional intelligence capture all of the momentum and exhilaration of this glorious accomplishment,” raves School Library Journal in a starred review. Learning to ride a bike is one of the most important milestones of childhood, and no one captures the emotional ups and downs of the experience better than Chris Raschka, who won the 2012 Caldecott Medal for A Ball for Daisy. In this simple yet emotionally rich "guide," a father takes his daughter through all the steps in the process—from choosing the perfect bicycle to that triumphant first successful ride. Using very few words and lots of expressive pictures, here is a picture book that not only shows kids how to learn to ride, but captures what it feels like to fall . . . get up . . . fall again . . . and finally "by luck, grace, and determination" ride a bicycle!

Author : Lance Oliver
Publisher : Whitehorse Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781884313882

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Few paint a more vivid or varied picture of the joys of riding than this collection of stories from a motorcycling life by Lance Oliver, who has spent more time than most of us thinking about and writing about the art and practicalities of motorcycling.

Author : Jaci Burton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101623934

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Gray Preston was born into money, but he’s built his racing empire on hard work and muscle. And now that Gray has millions of fans, his senator father sends one of his aides, Evelyn Hill, to elicit Gray’s help in garnering votes for the upcoming national election. Gray wants nothing to do with his estranged father’s campaign, but Evelyn can be pretty persuasive. She’s willing to learn about racing, and maybe even get a little dirty. Evelyn’s number-one goal is politics, which makes working with Gray difficult, because his only passion is fast cars. As she and Gray spend time together, he teaches her about the sport he loves, and she learns a lot about the man behind the wheel. The more she learns, the more she wants him. But any desire that threatens to derail the carefully laid plans for her future is a dangerous one. With the passion Gray and Evelyn share running hotter than either imagined, one of them is going to have to compromise, or else run the risk of losing more than their hearts.

Author : Jim Shea
Publisher : Jim Shea
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 173626060X

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In the summer of 2010, brothers-in-law Marty and Jim embark on a cycling trip along the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal, a 335-mile trek from their home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Jim's boyhood home in Washington, DC. Chance encounters with colorful local characters and other surprising escapades during five days on the trail make for nonstop laughs. As they travel through forests and along winding rivers, they experience the breathtaking scenery of western Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia, exploring early American history while learning more about each other as well as themselves. This true story is for adventurers and cyclists as well as couch potatoes looking for a lighthearted take on friendship and some hilarious fun.

Author : Chelsea Camaron
Publisher : Carolina Dreams Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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One Ride Can one ride turn lust into love? Delilah “Doll” Reklinger has never been in danger before. As the only child to Roundman, Haywood’s Hellions motorcycle club president, she has always been protected. When a threat to Roundman’s club gets too close to his precious doll, he does the only thing he can think of—sends her away until his enemy is in the ground. Talon “Tripp” Crews lives his life from one ride to the next. As the Catawba Hellions motorcycle club chapter president, he doesn’t hesitate to answer Roundman’s call for help. One ride across the country sounds simple enough. One ride tempted by a forbidden desire is far from easy. One ride changes everything for everyone. *** This is a motorcycle club romance. This book contains strong language, strong sexual situations, violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of eighteen. This is a work of fiction and is not meant to be a true or exact depiction of a motorcycle club but rather a book meant to entertain. *** Each book in the Hellions Ride Series is a complete stand-alone story featuring a new couple. Series order: One Ride Forever Ride Merciless Ride Eternal Ride Innocent Ride Simple Ride Heated Ride Ride With Me (Hellions MC and Ravage MC duel co-written by Ryan Michele) Originals Ride Final Ride

Author : Terry Farish
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Bicycles
ISBN : 9781554518081

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"A refugee boy's determination to ride a bicycle leads to an unexpected friendship"--Publisher.