Reviews

One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels by Jonathan Vaughters

jergrylls's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

donb's review

4.0

4.5

akaufman1089's review against another edition

4.0

After this, I'll read anything JV writes.

paulogonzalez's review against another edition

2.0

I simply don't believe in Vaughters, in what he tells. There are too many things he doesn't say in this book, he tells only what he wants, what fits well with the narrative he wants to tell. It's clear here that he has a huge ego, and he speaks accordingly to that but keeping quiet in too many ways because don't match his pretenses. It seems to me that JV is a bit of a hypocrite. I didn't like what he says about doping and riding clean, and I don't believe that professional cycling has changed as he asserts. I think that is the same old cycling, with the same old people involved and the same old vices.

To me the best part of this book is the one concerning thoughts about the role of cyclists/teams/races, the structure of the sport, the need of sponsorization and so on. He has some very interesting point of view and makes you think over the future of cycling and in which manner it would be a better sport.