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Stalker by Chris Walker is out in paperback at 11.20 euros.
Following the retirement of the legendary Carl Fogarty, Chris Walker has become Britain’s most popular motorcycle racer. Incredibly brave, outspoken and with talent to burn, Chris is frank about his hell-raising exploits on and off track, his legion of fans and his action-packed career in World and British superbikes.
His first book, Stalker, recreates his zest for life, passion for bikes, but most-of-all, his unique sense of humour. It not only includes the inside story of his racing, but revelations of his and fellow riders’ more ‘racy’ exploits. Chris will also expose some of the inner demons that are rarely shown to the public.
He tells of a childhood surrounded by bikes, his first girlfriend, a catalogue of broken bones – just weeks after spending four months in plaster following a serious road bike accident, he almost severed his other leg when motocrossing; and of the inevitable attention of the opposite sex: “Girls would not have been knocking on my motorhome door if I hadn’t been racing bikes!”
He goes on to recount the classic season-long ding-dong battle with arch-rival Neil Hodgson, which went to the courts over disputed points, the loyal support, and exploits, of his five-strong 18-stone posse of mates known as the ‘Big Lads’ and the less-welcome attentions of a fully-fledged stalker.
Updated and told in Chris’s inimitably self-deprecating style – and with all the drama of the opening races of the 2008 World Supersport series – the book breaks the mould of recent motorcycling autobiographies.
