The new memoir tracing story of cycling because the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, founder of team Education First and one of the sport’s most towering figures.

Jonathan Vaughters’ story may be the story of contemporary cycling. From his early years as a keen cyclist in his hometown in Colorado to his unflinching rite of passing as a specialist rider around Postal to his elevation as you of cycling’s most resilient, ethical and intelligent team bosses, the highs and lows of his career about One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Tires have mirrored those of the sport itself. Vaughters has had a front-row chair for most from the major events in cycling within the last three decades. He was both a previous teammate of Lance and a respected see against him. And he went on to renounce doping and begin the 1st pro cycling team to dedicate itself to clean riding, which has grown into perhaps one of the most successful teams competing today and started a movement that has swept across the sport.

That is also not simply a story of races won and lost: Vaughters shows readers how he navigated the complex, international business of building Slipstream right into a world-class cycling team. Over the past decade, he has led the activity out of the scandal-plagued Armstrong era. By showing the world using a team manufactured from talented racers built around a strenuous approach to clean racing, he set a fresh standard within cycling that has since pass on over the peloton. Written from the initial perspective of both a racer and a team manager, One-Way Ticket gives the comprehensive story of what must be done to create a winning team and fix the trustworthiness of a sport.