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The Immortal Class
Culley, Travis Hugh
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The Immortal Class
Travis Hugh Culley went to Chicago to make his name in its burgeoning theater scene, yet found in his day job a sense of community and fulfillment -- and a brotherhood of like-minded individualists -- that he encountered nowhere else. He was an invisible man in society yet at the same time its -- most intimate observer. In the almost slavish servitude of the job, he found freedom. In The Immortal Class, Culley takes us inside the heart and soul of an American urban icon: the bicycle messenger. In describing his own history and that of his peers, he evokes a classic American maverick, deeply woven into the fabric of society -- from the pits of squalor to the highest reaches of power and privilege -- yet always resolutely, exuberantly outside. Culley's voice is at once earthy and soaringly poetic -- a Gen-X Tom Joad at hyperspeed. The Immortal Class is a unique personal and political narrative of a cyclist's life on the street.
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Title of ebook:
The Immortal Class
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9780375506659
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Released online for download
: 01-01-2001
Author of eBook:
Culley, Travis Hugh
The Immortal Class
Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
Chapter 1
Chapter one
Daybreak
6:48 a.m.
there is no distinction between man and machine when I mount a bike like
this one. Trusting all of my weight to the right pedal of a simple pulley
system, I overcome the resistance of two thin tires bound by an aluminum
frame and a steel chain. A small disk at the axle of the back wheel, slowly
giving way to the force of my weight, holds the pressure taut against the
chain. As I lean forward, the weight of my body pulls the cog around the
rear axle, turning it one inch. The wheels, held tight by a matrix of metal
spokes fixed to a hub, are pulled around a set of ball bearings by the
torqued cog. Eighteen inches of rubber wheel crawls forward.
My weight shifts from pedal to pedal, reversing the side-to-side t ...
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