Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400052417)

Take one very large guy. Add booze, cigarettes, and an extreme amount of junk food. Mix in a wry, self-effacing wit. Throw in a bike. The result? Heft on Wheels, a potently funny look at turning your life around, one insanely unrealistic goal at a time.

Not that long ago, Mike Magnuson was a self-described lummox with a bicycle. In the space of three months, he lost seventy-five pounds, quit smoking, stopped drinking, and morphed from the big guy at the back of the pack into a lean, mean cycling machine. Today, Mike is a 175-pound athlete competing in some of the most difficult one-day racing events in America. This irreverent and inspiring memoir charts every hilarious detail of his transformation, from the horrors of skin-tight XXL biking shorts to the miseries of nicotine withdrawal.

Heft on Wheels is an unforgettable book about getting from one place to another, in more ways than one.

Author: Mike Magnuson
ISBN-10: 1400052416
ISBN-13: 9781400052417
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Language: English
Published: 05/24/2005
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.26w x 0.56d