Jack Baruth is a former professional BMX racer, cycling

Cycling

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 instructor, and cycling/auto journalist

Journalist

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, perhaps best known for writing the "One Racer's Perspective" and "BMX Basics" columns for the National Bicycle League

National Bicycle League

The National Bicycle League is a United States based Bicycle Motocross sports sanctioning body originally based in Deerfield Beach, Florida but after several moves it was based in Hilliard, Ohio...

, for his regular (and sometimes controversial) contributions to The Truth About Cars

The Truth About Cars

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 and for maintaining the now defunct bmxbasics website under his pen name

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Jim Boswell.

As a car racer, he races in the NASA, Koni Challenge, and Skip Barber Mazdaspeed Series.