Tag: Mark Cavendish

Mark Cavendish At Speed

Mark Cavendish is his usual hilarious if profane self in the followup to his popular Boy Racer book. He’ll lose the yellow jersey this afternoon during the individual time trial in the Amgen Tour of California, so get it while it’s hot.

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Mark Cavendish book signing

Mark Cavendish will appear at Helen’s Cycles in Santa Monica on Monday, May 24th at 6 p.m. to meet fans and autograph his autobiography, Boy Racer.

Mark Cavendish holds his book Boy Racer

“You should read my book,” Cavendish told the assembled media after his Stage 1 win in the 2010 Amgen Tour of California in Sacramento last Sunday. “It’s a good book.”

I’m a little halfway through Boy Racer and I agree, it’s pretty good. The writing is breezy and conversational and open, though it’s a little awkward reading about his undying love for “Lissie” and her family knowing that he’s broken up with the girl next door and is now seen with the leggy Italian-Paraguayan beauty queen Fiorella Migliore.