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Pro cycling on $10 a day, from fat kid to Euro pro, Phil Gaimon

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Pro cycling on $10 a day, from fat kid to Euro pro, Phil Gaimon

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eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pro cycling on $10 a day

Responsibility statement

Phil Gaimon

Sub title

from fat kid to Euro pro

Summary

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

Take what you can get -- Get in your fucking car -- Put it in the 11 -- Pay your dues again -- Keep racing as long as you can -- Hold it down -- Get serious -- You gotta believe

Target audience

adult

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Pro cycling on ten dollars a dayFrom fat kid to Euro pro

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