Biking is cheap, it’s healthy, and it can provide easy access into an incredible array of life experiences. In this wide-ranging and quick-hitting guide, author Rob Coppolillo explains how bikes work, why bikes matter (especially today, when gas is expensive and interest in green living is high), and how readers – whatever their level of experience – can indulge their tastes for mountain trails, competitive racing, city exploration, and just basic transportation from point A to point B.
All aboard for the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race! This glittering event will take international racing VIPs and their thoroughbreds to races across Canada aboard a luxury train. Along the way, an intriguing mystery enactment will provide entertainment. Tom Kelsey is the security agent assigned to keep tabs on one of the most vicious figures of the racing underworld. For years he has been after Julius Apollo Filmer, a slippery criminal who "persuades" owners to sell their prize horses. Now Filmer has bribed his way onto the Mystery race, and the murder mystery threatens to become all too real. Narrated by Simon Preble
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.
Other kinds of auto races don’t feature such fantastic speeds. Most races cover longer distances and are run over more complicated racecourses. Some races take place on real streets and roads. However, no matter where and under what rules a race is held, going fast is always the key to winning. In order to make a high-performance race car, the designers and builders need to know the science behind how vehicles work and move. Drivers need to use some of this science during a race.
Racing Colours: German Racing Silver: Drivers, Cars and Triumphs of German Motor Racing
The glistening silver centerpiece of this unique tribute to Germany's racing cars and drivers is the decade of the 1930s, when the Third Reich controversially backed motor sports to flaunt its skill and power. With its historic contests and sensational racing cars that decade is still classed as motor racing's Golden Age. This is one book that is certain to have motor racing experts and fans thoroughly exhilarated, enticed, and eager for the next installment.
All aboard for the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race! This glittering event will take international racing VIPs and their thoroughbreds to races across Canada aboard a luxury train. Along the way, an intriguing mystery enactment will provide entertainment. Tom Kelsey is the security agent assigned to keep tabs on one of the most vicious figures of the racing underworld. For years he has been after Julius Apollo Filmer, a slippery criminal who "persuades" owners to sell their prize horses. Now Filmer has bribed his way onto the Mystery race, and the murder mystery threatens to become all too real.
