Press release below: Available as hardcover from Lulu.com as well as digitally on Kindle, and as an epub on Lulu.com.
Hi,
I’m Brett Middaugh a BMX rider who started back in the Old School days of 1979 riding and racing a Mongoose Motomag. I’ve spent pretty much my whole life as an average BMX guy just having fun racing, freestyling and riding with my friends. A couple of years ago I decided it might be cool to document what I went through as an everyday BMX rider during the early days of the sport in my home state of New Jersey. Since I had been around our local scene since day one and contributed in a few small ways helping to run races, do freestyle shows, set up New Jersey’s first BMX park and was actually able to go on tour for a couple of years with General, I decided to write a book. It’s called “The Average BMXer” and it chronicles the tales of the way that BMX helped shape the life of the “average” person who grew up around it during its formative years. Essentially it is an everyman’s tale of growing up a BMXer in a world that even to this day doesn’t really understand BMX.
I’ve published it to Lulu.com as an ebook (e-pub compatible with iBooks and Nook) and a hardcover book. It is also available at the Kindle bookstore.
An excerpt from the beginning of the book:
“For a few of us that need to break out and do our own thing translated from that device to creating a whole new sport with it. That mode of transportation was the Schwinn Stingray. This type of bicycle appealed to us mainly because we loved ripping our bikes around in the dirt and taking them off wooden jumps constructed out of half assed building materials. Those little Stingrays held up to the abuse. They allowed us to take all those highflying dreams and aspirations of childhood and unleash them in ways no one ever imagined.
I knew the moment I took my Stingray off my first plywood and cinder block ramp, that my life was changed forever. This is that tale.”
I’m hoping to inspire other people that may not be the best BMX riders to work within the sport to do what they can to make it better. Hopefully by seeing all the good times and great things that happen to a regular person who never became a big name in BMX it will make them see how important they are being just “average BMXers”. At the very least I’m sure Old School BMX riders will get a blast seeing BMX evolve through the eyes of someone just like themselves.
Any mention on your website about the release of the book would be awesome and it is greatly appreciated from this old BMX dude.
If you want to know more about the author I’m on Facebook at facebook.com/brettmiddaugh and my Facebook page facebook.com/brettbrittlesmiddaugh as well as my personal website middaugh.org
Thanks!
Ride On,
Brett Middaugh
