CRESCENT People: Phillip Barron Shows how “Outspokin” a Simpsonville Boy can Be.
As South Carolina’s larger cities work to make traffic flow more friendly and attractive for bicycles, Simpsonville’s Phillip Barron’s new book offers itself as a cyclist’s encouraging companion.
For four years, readers of The (Durham, NC) Herald-Sun newspaper enjoyed Phillip Barron’s monthly columns on bicycling. The Outspokin’ Cyclist gathers the best columns together in one volume.
With insights into cold-weather bike commuting, urban design, the spiritual solitude of solo mountain biking, and the philosophical problems with drug use in competitive sports, Barron’s columns offer glimpses into the life of a cyclist and a small city’s biking community.
His resulting book will appeal to Durham residents, all ranges of cyclists, and readers who simply enjoy a good story.
Barron graduated from Mauldin High School and attended Presbyterian College while learning to mountain bike. Now he lives and rides in Davis, California, but with family rooted in the Upstate, he looks forward to riding Greenville County’s Swamp Rabbit Trail from Travelers Rest to Cleveland Park.
“Now that Barron has wooed readers onto their bikes, he offers some support,” writes Courtnee Felton at Sweet Georgia Brown. “I appreciate the Zen nature of the book’s first part ‘Why I Ride.’ The essays here convey the sentiment of taking time out for oneself and slowing down to smell the roses. Barron speaks to both the sports cyclist enjoying those rare moments of being in the zone and the commuter experiencing their city to a degree that only bicycles allow.”
The Outspokin’ Cyclist is available online in paperback from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books-A-Million. It is also available as an ebook from Amazon (for the Kindle) and from Goodreads.com in epub (compatible with the Nook, iPad, iPhone, Sony Reader, Kobo, and other epub reading devices).
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