{"product_id":"mud-sweat-and-gears-joe-kurmaskie-9781891369858","title":"Mud, Sweat, and Gears: A Rowdy Family Bike Adventure Across Canada on Seven Wheels","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter seventeen years, who would road test a perfectly good marriage by putting it on a summer-long, self-contained bicycle adventure across Canada? Only the Metal Cowboy, of course. Beth Biagini Kurmaskie, the woman behind the man-child, has finally saddled up on her own volition--if only to bring a bit of parental supervision to the mix. She struggles and stumbles along the way while celebrating summer, speed, the simple pleasures of a road trip powered by one's own muscles, and family: what it means to be part of one stripped of the comforts and noise of the modern world, riding sixteen feet of bicycle train. With three sons aboard--one celebrating his first birthday on the road--a nursing mother finds her inner Xena Warrior Cyclist and all the reasons why she's stayed married to a whirling dervish of a husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMud, Sweat, and Gears\u003c\/i\u003e brings together absurd and sublime moments, introduces an American family to the wilds of Canada, uncovers choice characters (man and animal), and finds all the humor and pathos a Metal Cowboy adventure is famous for. If \u003ci\u003eMomentum Is Your Friend\u003c\/i\u003e was about fathers, sons, and hometown heroes, then \u003ci\u003eMud, Sweat, and Gears\u003c\/i\u003e is about mothers, wives, family, and the glue that holds the world together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an extra twist: revealing and outrageous footnotes from Beth throughout, filling in the backstories to many previous Metal Cowboy tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Kurmaskie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1891369857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781891369858\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Breakaway Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Joe Kurmaskie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43939082240255,"sku":"9781891369858","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_caaed4eb-7867-42d6-ab3a-589dae6f5094.jpg?v=1681439389","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mud-sweat-and-gears-joe-kurmaskie-9781891369858","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}