As far as I can tell, I’m not the Bill Strickland who sells real estate in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He understands quit-claim deeds, and I don’t. • I am probably not the Bill Strickland who is a philanthropist, won a MacArthur Genius Award, helps kids figure out life through exposure to the arts, and wrote the inspirational book Making the Impossible Possible. He understands life, and I don’t. • I seem to be the Bill Strickland who wrote Ten Points: A Memoir (Hyperion), co-wrote We Might As Well Win (Houghton-Mifflin) with Johan Bruyneel, and created other stuff such as The Quotable Cyclist (Breakaway Books), Mountain Biking: The Ultimate Guide to the Ultimate Ride (McGraw-Hill) and On Being a Writer (F&W Publications). I’ve published stories in Bicycling, Mountain Bike, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, Parenting, Parents, Backpacker, Rouleur, Embrocation Cycling Journal, The Indianapolis Star, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review and other magazines and newspapers, and I’ve commented on cycling, memoirs and other topics for Good Morning America, The Early Show, CBS Sports, ESPN, NPR and other networks. I got to work with Phil Liggett a few times providing narration for race videos. I race road and cyclocross, just a little bit and not very well. I’m the editor-at-large of Bicycling, the biggest cycling mag in the world. I make a lot of mistakes. Mostly I know it.
