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A Dog in a Hat: An American Bike Racer's Story of Mud, Drugs, Blood, Betrayal, and Beauty in Belgium |  | Author: Joe Parkin
Brand: VELO
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Sales Rank: 74863
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 205
Number Of Items: 1
Size: 232 Pages
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
MPN: 9.78193E+12
ISBN: 1934030260
EAN: 9781934030264
ASIN: 1934030260
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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| • | An American Bike Racer's Story of Mud, Drugs, Blood, Betrayal, and Beauty in Belgium | | • | A Dog in a Hat is the remarkable story of Joe Parkin | | • | In 1987, Parkin left the comforts of home to become a bike racer in Belgium, the hardest place in the world to be a bike racer | | • | As one of the first American pros in Europe, Parkin was what the Belgians call "a dog with a hat on - something familiar, yet decidedly out of place | | • | Paperback with color photo section |
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Product Description
In 1987, Joe Parkin was an amateur bike racer in California when he ran into Bob Roll, a pro on the powerhouse Team 7-Eleven. "Lobotomy Bob" told Parkin that, to become a pro, he must go to Belgium. Riding along a canal in Belgium years later, Roll encountered Parkin, who he described as "a wraith, an avenging angel of misery, a twelve-toothed assassin". Roll barely recognized him. Belgium had forged Parkin into a pro, and changed him forever. A Dog in a Hat is Joe's remarkable story. Parkin lays it all out: the drugs, the payoffs, the betrayals, the battles for contracts, the endless promises, and the glory of racing day after day. A Dog in a Hat is the unforgettable story of the un-ordinary education of Joe Parkin and his love affair with racing, set in the hard place in the world to be a bike racer.
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