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Just Ride

A collection of eighty-nine micro-essays ranging from a hundred and fifty to about eight hundred and fifty words, but averaging four hundred, on many familiar and some unfamiliar topics. The chapters are:

Riding, Dressing, Safety, Health & Fitness, Accessories, Upkeep, Technicalities, and Velosophy. There’s a mix of instruction and opinion, and as a Free Bonus, you get medical advice involving the drawing of blood. (The author has his A.A. degree, so you can ignore the publisher's disclaimer before the table of contents.)

It would be somewhere between rare and freaky for anybody to agree with all of it, but for the record, I actually do, which is why I wrote it. But for anybody who isn’t me, I think the most I could hope for is maybe 81/89. Some of you may be down around 65/89. But take heart---there’s room to grow, there.

All  in all, Just Ride is sort of a manual for the Unracer—the rider looking for a reason to shuck the click-in pedals and uncomfortable bikes and grueling rides, without feeling like it’s throwing in the towel. It’s full of suggestions and recommendation on riding your bike outside the strange and often dysfunctional influences of racing, and having a better time on the bike because of it.

Short Sleeve Tee shirts here.


Hi Grant,

Thank you for joining us on the show today. It was great to have you with us for a little while and I hope you also enjoyed yourself. We received a deluge of calls, email, and tweets about biking, with several letters telling us how "refreshing" they felt your viewpoint to be. I guess you're right when you say that bike culture has become so extreme toward the racing end that your words of common sense sound refreshing and radical. There is obviously a real demand among our listeners for a more bike-friendly environment.

I am sending a link to the show's webpage on our public media website, Your Public Media, which includes a podcast to today's show. Please feel free to post it to your website if you like.

http://www.yourpublicmedia.org/content/wnpr/bikers-beware


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Just ride November 17, 2012
Reviewer: John McCarty from SIOUX FALLS, SD United States  
A good read especially for someone who is relatively new to recreational cycling.  Like the  cover states, it is a practical guide to riding your bike.  I enjoyed the constant encouragement of making riding "fun."

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Grant at his finest November 7, 2012
Reviewer: Marty from Oakland, CA United States  
Grant Peterson has a point of view about many things. It resonates for most of us, or we wouldn't be here. This book is a collection of his thoughts about cycling and other things as well.

Grant writes well and respectfully. And even when he is wrong (e.g., condemning carbs without distinguishing refined sugar from broccoli) he is provocative and thoughtful.

Get it. Read it. Enjoy it. And celebrate what Grant brings to cycling -- which is a lot.

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Sanity in the otherwisehyper competitive community August 1, 2012
Reviewer: Bruce Day from Hendersonville, TN United States  
In a community dominated by "How to drop your buddies"  types it is nice to have the rest of us Freds represented.  Grant has much the same message as John Forester and Ken Kifer (with a few tweaks and without the evangelical tone) in an easily digested format.  My book ordered from Rivendell was personally autographed by Grant himself, a very nice touch.

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Just Ride July 29, 2012
Reviewer: Michael C Tuomey from Huntington Woods, MI United States  
I'm pleased to have Grant's insights captured in one place.  Makes using his ideas as "course corrections" in my riding life easier than digging through a stack of Readers.  The essays resonate for me, as I've come back to biking on a Rivendell after a long spell away.  Nothing's going to spoil my rediscovered joy of jumping on my bike whenever I want, dressed as I am, and riding wherever I want.  Forever young on my bike, that's where "Just Ride" leads me.  Edit:  "Just Ride" made the 7/29 NYTimes Book Review (Dave Eggers).  Congrats to Grant!

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Pied Piper for the Unracer. July 10, 2012
Reviewer: Gary Boulanger from Mountain View, CA United States  
Grant Petersen has been one of the most consistent voices in the bicycle industry since I met him in 1994, right before Bridgestone shuttered its U.S. office, and Grant switched to Rivendell mode. I worked with him in the early RBW days, learning plenty, before methodically (in hindsight) making my way westward to California, where I've enjoyed sharing several S24Os.

I received a copy of "Just Ride" from a publicist in June, and posted a review on the Bicycle Times website last week. I think my review paints a fair picture of the man behind the book, and what the book may mean to certain folks:

http://www.bicycletimesmag.com/content/book-review-just-ride-grant-petersen

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