Carbon Addiction: Bikes, Words & Life

by Peter Maniaty

Overview

My name is Peter and I am an addict.

What began innocently with a token fitness drive on a cheap hybrid bicycle several years ago, quickly and quite unexpectedly took hold of me with a vice-like grip; one that cannot be easily loosened even to this day. Whilst initially I tried to hide it from the outside world, my little Lycra secret, I have come to accept road cycling is an all-consuming addiction that has led to some impossible-to-ignore changes in my life and come at high financial cost. I cannot deny it has affected my family, my friends and my health. But do you know what? I couldn’t be happier.

Carbon Addiction: Bikes, Words & Life is an entertainingly eclectic exploration of one man's introduction to, and subsequent obsession with, road cycling; from his local bunch ride all the way to the greatest cycling event of them all, the Tour de France.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045225267
Publisher:	Peter Maniaty
Publication date:	09/01/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Peter has been a writer for the best part of twenty years. And a cyclist for three. Unless you count BMX as a kid. In which case he's been a cyclist, well, pretty much forever. He loves riding. He loves writing. And today he indulges in both as often as possible. His day-to-day profession is advertising. But between work and riding himself, he also writes freelance for cycling publications like Bicycling Australia and even works as the part-time marketing/communications manager for a race team in the Subaru National Road Series. He owns seven bikes, but most days can be found riding his Colnago.