Pro cycling on $10 a day
Subtitle: from fat kid to Euro pro
By: Phil Gaimon
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781937715243
Subjects: Cycling; Cyclists; Biography; Bicycle racing
Other titles: Pro cycling on ten dollars a day
Description: "Abandoning his former life as a couch potato and gamer, Phil Gaimon begin riding a bicycle in 2004 with the goal of shedding a few pounds. By sheer accident, he discovered he was a natural, advancing so rapidly through the amateur ranks that he entered the pro peloton utterly ignorant of a century of cycling etiquette. He recounts the difficulties of making ends meet on a salary of $166 a month, the politics and friendships of the peloton, and the ups and downs as he pursues a life as a pro cyclist"--
Table of contents: title: Take what you can get; title: Get in your fucking car; title: Put it in the 11; title: Pay your dues again; title: Keep racing as long as you can; title: Hold it down; title: Get serious; title: You gotta believe.