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...then we started having success. Then you start looking around at the big-time racecar drivers and they become your heroes. Once you get behind the wheel, you get past some of the fear, because anything new can be fearful. It doesn't matter if you're riding a bike or driving a racecar. And honestly, I think I've been more injured riding my bike than riding a racecar...
...world and [present] interesting facts and let readers draw the conclusions. ... One thing I've discovered is that everybody is concerned about the number of human beings on the planet. Whether you are an environmentalist or just somebody who likes to go out and ride a three-wheel bike or go hunting, all the places that you remember as a kid that you could hang out in are now filled with strip malls and industrial parks. At the end of the book I drop one last interesting fact: Every four days there's a million more people on the planet...
That may be overstatement, but such sentiments often stem from legitimate gripes. Bounds recalls when he and his wife attended an important fund-raiser for Charlie three years ago, on the same day Alex rode in an annual bike race. "Alex won the race for his age group and was really upset when we were not there to greet him at the finish line," says Bounds. "As much as you try to balance schedules, as parents of an autistic child, you have to basically accept that you are going to have moments when you feel you have cheated your other...
...massacre of June 1989. Jian Wan, the longhaired grad student and narrator, has been in Beijing and has seen the monstrous crackdown firsthand. Back in his staid university town, he is tipped off that the police are coming to arrest him as a counterrevolutionary. He flees, hawking his Phoenix bike to a fruit vendor for some apricots and enough change to buy a train ticket to Nanjing. From there, Jian plans to board an express train heading south to Guangzhou, then sneak into Hong Kong and eventually make it to another country. In the novel's final scene, Jian incinerates...
...campaign to make this polluted mountain capital a more pleasant environment. Last spring he shipped in tons of sand to create four urban beaches, which were also a hit with residents. In addition, Ebrard has built miles of cycle paths, where he has posed for photographs atop his mountain bike on sunny Sundays...