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Author: John Buultjens
Publisher: Pitch Publishing
ISBN: 9781785313387
Category : Adoptees
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Ride lays bare the harrowing beginnings and the tough life lessons learned by superstar John Buultjens on his rise to BMX glory. Raised by his poor family in Glasgow, he slept rough to escape his father's beatings. Placed in a children's home, he adopted by a bi-racial couple. After conquering his own racism, his life turned around, and the movie E.T. inspired a love of BMX. John's emigration to Australia saw him becoming one of BMX's biggest names. Then came the call from California to lead the most famous BMX brand, Haro. Now their global brand manager, he backs and sponsors riders across the globe. Hollywood has turned his unbelievable journey into a movie. Here, John reveals inner secrets including murders, hatred, sexual abuse--and how his white-knuckle ride has taken him to the top against all the odds.

Author: Paul Estrem
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896863491
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Introduces the sport of bicycle motocross, including the design of a BMX bike, riding and safety skills, and the features of a BMX racetrack.

Author: Todd Davis
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811879852
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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The host of HGTV’s Room Crashers presents twenty-five awesome projects for dads to build with their kids—including skate ramps, zip lines, go-carts, and more! On his popular home improvement show, Todd Davis is known for transforming interiors with eye-popping DIY design. But in Handy Dad, he uses his know-how to create twenty-five simple yet super-fun projects that dads can build with their kids. Dads can choose from projects that range from basic to challenging and take anywhere from five minutes to a full weekend. Readers are given all the directions they need to grab materials that can be found around the house or at the local hardware store and get to work banging up a sweet BMX ramp or half-pipe, building a tree house or tire swing, or throwing together a slip-and-slide or tie-dye station for an afternoon of fun. With plenty of color photographs, easy-to-follow instructions, and detailed illustrations, Handy Dad is chock-full of creative and inexpensive ways to keep kids (and dads) endlessly entertained.

Author: Maria Sotelo
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663251738
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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All of us have a spark of crazy inside of us. Some of us hide it in dark corner hoping to fit in. Some of us wear it as a shield to keep others out. And some of us play with our crazy with carefree abandon like a child finding the swings free at recess. In (Un)Predictable we follow the journey of the author as she learns to let her weird light shine, because some things are too big to hide and better celebrated. Unfortunately, all too soon she learns that there is a fine line between playing with your crazy and being played by your crazy. One of those experiences is no fun at all.

Author: David Millar
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451682700
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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WORLD-CLASS CYCLIST, Tour de France stage winner, and time trial specialist David Millar offers a vivid portrait of his life in professional cycling—including his soul-searing detour into performance-enhancing drugs, his dramatic arrest and two-year ban, and his ultimate decision to return to the sport he loves to race clean—in this arrestingly candid memoir, which he wrote himself. As a young Scottish expat living in Hong Kong with his father after his parents’ divorce, Millar showed early promise with mountain biking and BMX. Two wise local cyclists took him under their wings, encouraging him to concentrate on road racing. Millar proved a ready convert. Racing Through the Dark offers the winning account of his climb through the ranks—first as an amateur and then as a pro, riding for the French team Cofidis. Among his early triumphs were several stage wins in the Tour de France. From the moment Millar turned pro, he began to see hints of the unethical measures that many— maybe most—of the other pros were taking in order to race at the very tops of their games . . . and beyond. At first, he felt that he was immune to temptation, that he could win clean. But the ugly pervasiveness of performance-enhancing drugs and the seemingly universal attitude that condoned it began to corrode his willpower. Racing Through the Dark details his eventual capitulation, his subsequent arrest and two-year ban from cycling, and his remarkable comeback as a clean cyclist who is now doing his utmost to keep performance-enhancing drugs out of the sport he so loves. Filled with thrilling descriptions of the world’s most spectacular courses, Racing Through the Dark captures the pure joy of cycling and includes some of the most vivid accounts of racing ever written by a true insider.

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Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Author: Jamie Kershaw
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665587695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Seven characters. One life. Whose line was it anyway? Don’t let your circumstances defeat you. Keep dreaming, keep moving, keep making plans. Where would we be without a dream? We all have our health to consider, whether physical, mental, emotional, financial, or spiritual. Seize the day, look out of every window, life is a journey, live your dreams, dwell in the Lord’s Wisdom. Isaiah 40:31 “But those who look to the Lord will win new strength, they will grow wings like eagles; they will run and not be weary, they will march on and never grow faint!” Plan 103f takes you on a journey of love, heart-ache, tears, and celebration. Set in the period 2010-2012, there are elements of Olympic Sport, Relationships, Business Enterprise, Food and Drink, Psychology, Popular Philosophy, Theology, and Contemporary Culture. Original in every way, this edition sees numerous developments of intrigue. The author graciously acknowledges Chipmunkapublishing for producing Plan 103f 1st Edition, with thanks for permission to publish this 2nd Edition.

Author: Roy Apps
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 1445114194
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Ever had a dream -- a dream to win? Chris had a dream -- to be a world-class cyclist. This is the story of Chris's early years and his break through into the British Olympic track cycling team. This title is published by Franklin Watts EDGE, which produces a range of books to get children reading with confidence. We believe this title will be of interest to readers aged 7+ and to older readers who struggle with reading. EDGE - for books kids can't put down.

Author: Iwan Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1399413619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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'Lays bare the realities of a sporting career' Lord Sebastian Coe 'Gripping, revealing and honest' Steve Cram OBE 'A gripping read ... Iwan runs and runs and runs, and arrives at himself' Jeremy Vine Running has been Iwan Thomas's life. He put everything into becoming and remaining an elite athlete to such a point that his efforts left him scarred. Iwan reveals the highs of his career, but also his battles with the dark side of running – the loneliness, the doubts, the hurt and, ultimately, the serious mental health issues. After a youthful stint as a world-class BMX rider, Iwan dedicated himself to running. Between 1995 and 1998, he became one of the world's fastest men, taking silver in the 4x400m at the Olympics and gold at the European and World Championships. Yet, although his British 400m record of 44.36s would stand unbroken for 25 years, niggling injuries were already beginning to limit his ability to compete with the best. His response to setbacks had always been to train even harder, but this was no longer an option. Without the structure of training, the motivation of competition and the buzz of race day, Iwan struggled. He suffered an extended period of anxiety and depression, before eventually coming to terms with his life as a former athlete. In this deeply reflective, utterly engaging and sensationally open book, Iwan shares an absorbing, sometimes uncomfortable, but totally memorable story, and finally reveals the truth behind his life in sport.

Author: Michael Jefferies
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503570851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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This book chronicles the authors nearly half-century effort to help troubled boys. It began auspiciously with a job at a summer day camp where he worked to ready himself for a possible career in teaching. But it was there that he became so captivated by the unique social problems of two particular fatherless boys that he began looking for ways to work more closely with troubled youths rather than teach. Not long thereafter, he began his more than four decades of being a mentor, a foster parent, an unofficial grandparent, and a guardian to a large number of youths. During those forty years, the author took note of some important changes in the way that society was treating its boys. He noted, for example, that there was the beginnings of a shift away from the reactionary, authoritarian way of treating youth to a more positive, proactive approach; he noticed an emerging affirmation of the idea that stepdads all too often can create more problems than they solve, and he took quiet notice of the mounting evidence about how our schools had become feminized in ways that were making school life tougher for our boys.