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Riding Man | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Gardiner
Publisher: bikewriter.com
Category: Book
Buy New: $16.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 310669
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 246
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0979167302
EAN: 9780979167300
ASIN: 0979167302
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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Product Description
A moving description of an average motorcyclist's dream of participating in the world's greatest motorcycle race. For 100 years, the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races have been the world's most dangerous organized sporting event. Mark Gardiner was just another one of the 30,000 fans who attended the annual spectacle. Except that he went home, quit his job, and sold everything he owned. He moved to the Island determined to race in the TT himself. If you're a dreamer, the lesson in this book is that the pursuit of any worthwhile goal involves risks, rewards and regrets. If you're not a dreamer, the lesson is more important: the deepest regrets are always over risks not taken.
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 Riding Man June 29, 2008
This is a very good motorcycle genre book.The author used a bit of a novel
approach in constructing it,but I enjoyed it.
This is not a fiction novel. So you would really probably only understand it
with any depth if you have a reasonably strong motorcycle background.
Anyone who's ever been into motorcycle racing and wished they could or actually did it will like this book.
Awesome May 27, 2008
I have to admit, I race motorcycles. So, right off the bat I was interested in this book. However, once I got to actually reading it, I found that it is a very well written story. It doesn't just cover his racing. He also talks about his job, a little about his family, and a lot about the culture on the Isle of Man. His writing style is funny and insightful. He's just a fairly average guy who chases his dream.
Even if you aren't very interested in motorcycles, I highly reccomend this book.
Zen racing between the hedges, and walls, and trees, and.... February 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not done with the book yet and it's already making me re-evaluate how I live life. Making me itch to do something more than just work to live/ride. I too have a passion for motorcycles, and racing. The TT and it's heroes(Mike the Bike, Joey, McCallen, DJ) always like real people who do extra-ordinary things. Mark is one of them, to me. I'd love to see a follow up book of his sketches of the course.
Great Read January 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a great follow up to One Man's Island the documentary that Mark Gardiner did.
Compelling and fascinating November 10, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I concur with the first review, this is an amazing book about a guy who understands that he is pursuing a crazy dream, and he makes the reader understand why, and walks the reader through the staggering difficulties. There is a DVD of this story, which I am going to get.
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