Heft on Wheels by Mike Magnuson

Heft on Wheels by Mike Magnuson

Take one very large guy. Add booze, cigarettes, and an extreme amount of junk food. Mix in a wry, self-effacing wit. Throw in a bike. The result? Heft on Wheels, a potently funny look at turning your life around, one insanely unrealistic goal at a time.
Not that long ago, Mike Magnuson was a self-described lummox with a bicycle. In the space of three months, he lost seventy-five pounds, quit smoking, stopped drinking, and morphed from the big guy at the back of the pack into a lean, mean cycling machine. Today, Mike is a 175-pound athlete competing in some of the most difficult one-day racing events in America. This irreverent and inspiring memoir charts every hilarious detail of his transformation, from the horrors of skin-tight XL biking shorts to the miseries of nicotine withdrawal.
Heft on Wheels is an unforgettable book about getting from one place to another, in more ways than one.

Mike Magnuson, who has written for Esquire, GQ, and Bicycling, teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He has written two books and a memoir.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781400052417
ISBN 10	1400052416
Title	Heft on Wheels
Author	Mike Magnuson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2005-05-24
Number of pages	256
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