Outlaw Biker: My Life At Full Throttle | 
enlarge | Authors: Richard "deadeye" Hayes, Mary Gardner Publisher: Citadel Category: Book
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Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 208 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0806528990 Dewey Decimal Number: 364 EAN: 9780806528991 ASIN: 0806528990
Publication Date: March 1, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand new item. Over 3.5 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Order with confidence. Code: B20080725212931T
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Book Description One thing I can say with certainty is that I have not had a dull life. I have been shot twice, stabbed, blown up, bitten by a rattlesnake and by a scorpion, plus had numerous car and motorcycle accidents...I've even been married twice. Here is the true-life story of Richard "Deadeye" Hayes in all its bad-ass, balls-to-the-wall glory. This is a man who stole a machine gun before he was seven and lost his left eye when a good friend shot him in the face. As a member--and then president--of the infamous Los Valientes Motorcycle Club, he broke more laws and had more fun than any six of the coolest guys you know. Butch told me the club had a hard time deciding whether to vote me in or kill me. I always hoped he was kidding. One of the last true Outlaw Bikers, Deadeye knows what it means to be a man, take shit from no one, and have tattoos that actually say something. Riding, drug dealing, and sending men to the hospital with his bare hands, Deadeye made himself a legend among bikers--all the while making sure his daughters never got mixed up with guys like him. I've always been of the belief that bikers are born, not made. Real bikers, that is. We must have an extra gene or something that gives us this I'll-live-like-I-want-whether-you-approve-of-it-or-not-and-fuck-your-rules attitude. In his own words, Deadeye tells it all. From earning his colors with an outlaw motorcycle club to his steady diet of drugs, sex, violence, and crime, this is his story: true to life, yet larger than life, and full throttle all the way.
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Outlaw Biker: My life at full throttle June 23, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolutly the worse Autobiography I have ever read. An unbelievably boring and uneventful biker story. Do not waste a nickel on this book.
The Heart of Darkness June 7, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dick Hayes's story "Outlaw Biker: My Life at Full Throttle" is perhaps one of the few realistic, centerline stories of a man who adopted the 1%er lifestyle and the motorcycle that goes with it as his way of living life. He is not a Sonny Barger nor a Ruben Cavazos, but rather a run-of-the-mill guy / biker who lived the bulk of his life on the fringes of society with all that entails...that's why he calls himself an outlaw biker.
In the macro picture he's your average 1%er and he describes how really unromantic the daily doings of a outlaw rider are despite the few, primarily criminal, "bright spots" - all that ultimately lead to either the hospital, the courts, or prison from what Dick describes.
As with nearly all bios and auto-bios coming from this slice of the criminal culture, little if any remorse is extended to the victims of the outlaw biker world's dependence on drug dealing, theft, firearms trafficking, sexual slavery, assault, murder, rape, domestic violence and all those other society-killing activities that keep him and those like him rolling on two wheels.
This exclusion of individual responsibility is yet another affirmation coming from the 1%er sub-culture of why Hunter Thompson ended his book on the Hells Angels with this advice from "The Heart of Darkness", the classic tome of Man at his very worst -
"The horror! The horror!...Exterminate all the brutes!"
Cleanly written, easy to put down and pick back up again, kudos to his co-writer for bringing it to life in print.
Thank you from the Muddy Pages Book Club! May 30, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed reading Deadeye's book. As I read it I felt like I was sitting next to him in a bar listening to him tell stories. There were parts of it that made me laugh out loud and there were parts that made me think that this guy is insane. He has definitely lead an interesting life. My book club was lucky enough to meet him. By talking to him in person you would never guess that he has done so many "bad" things. I am looking forward to his next book.
Not really a "Biker" book May 14, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is about an interesting character but, not really a biker book. Not bad but, not outstanding.
A Pretty Shallow Book April 30, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
First off, the book is not terribly well written. It's almost as if the stories were simply dictated and typed out.
As a biography, it's relatively weak. There is little insight into the author/main character and some of the material seems to stretch credulity. The author seems unable to examine his own lifestyle in any detail or with any real honesty.
Some of the stories are interesting for a while, but it's not a very good book and you'll grow bored with it in a hurry.
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