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My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me

By: Boris Mihailovic
Narrated by: Dave Ferguson
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Whether you're into dirt bikes, road bikes, ride a Yamaha, scooter or Laverda, if you've ever experienced the primal rush of riding a motor bike, the pain of crashing, the suffering of healing and the epiphanies of speed, then this book is for you.

My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me is about friendship, treachery, girls in tight pants, and motorcycles that have been possessed by Satan.

It’s about brotherhood, camaraderie, drugs, alcohol, and being hounded by the police for daring to combine them all at once. It’s about racing 1000 kilometres through the night for money and thrills. It’s about massive amputations, bovine stupidity, maniacal genius and the wisdom of the old.

It’s about chance and fate and suffering, being two people at once and being handcuffed in a Melbourne gutter. It’s about being cold and crazy and hopeful and irredeemably lost. It’s about impossible highs and soul-crushing lows, about demons and brothers and dirt and danger, and houses with iron bars instead of glass in their windows. Essentially it’s about Boris Mihailovic’s life. With motorcycles.

©2012 Boris Mihailovic (P)2013 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Engineering Motorcycle
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Being of similar age to Boris, much of his story rings true to my own memories!...
Highly recommend Boris’s storytelling, very entertaining!... cheers brother!..

Grand!..

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I enjoyed this book it wasn’t what I expected but it was still entertaining.
It wasn’t what I thought it was more about the trill of riding motorcycles.
I thought it was going to be about motorcycle MCs

Not what I expected

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Great book. Have listened to it twice now. Very funny, would recommend it to anyone who love bikes and bike culture.

Worth every cent

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loved it!! end got a bit wishy washy but overall recommend. scary when you can relate to most of it.

funny as

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What an awsome book. Listened to this book twice and would listen again.

Well worth the read.

great read

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loved it. it's just a shame today's society has caused this type of lifestyle tone frowned upon. but alas I'm still doing it. good on you boris

grand adventure

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loved this as it was so similar to so much of my life as well.
you meet some of the greatest most unorthodox and funniest people when you learn the pure joy riding motorbikes can give you.
Well written and full of funny tales. Well worth the time to listen too.

Reminiscent of my misspent youth.

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This book is perfect for every bikie who is not too hung up on etiquette. I could not read this for more than 30 minutes at any time, because by then I was choking in my own tears of laughter. Especially the part about the brother with the Triumph.... All the while I was choking out: that's me, omg that is me! Just not a Brother but I am a girl and not a Triumph but a Shovelhead. I still got it as my secondary bike and it is a Shevo bow(Shovel with an Evo engine) And it still lets me down, 29 years down the track. Should indeed burn it. Or start writing books. Do yourself a favour. Buy this book. One of the best presents you could ever have given to yourself.

Absolutely brilliant

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well worth the read! stories were awesome, some were absolute gut busters and had me in teers.

HILARIOUS

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Highly amusing listen. Opens your eyes to the 70's and 80's motorcyclist! Well worth a read if you want something different.

Good refreshing read

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