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A compendium of bike rides in the San Francisco Bay Area with Jobst Brandt and friends from 1980-2007. Detailed ride accounts and photos taken during the rides. Updated to remove typos, August 2018. Available in print.

From 2009-2019 Bay Area Bike Rides author Ray Hosler kept a journal of his rides and reported on cycling in Silicon Valley. This compendium includes 90 percent of his blog located on Wordpress.com. You will find a wealth of information about bicycling, everything from stories of riding with Jobst Brandt to equipment reviews, repairs, politics, and important events. Available in print.

After his wife suffers a serious injury in a train wreck, Chen must find a place to live in Santa Cruz. He lands a job at Powder Works, where workers risk their lives manufacturing gunpowder. During their years in Santa Cruz, the unusual couple confront discrimination, catastrophic fires, and help introduce surfing to the thriving seaside community. Powder Works is the final volume in a trilogy about a Chinese immigrant family's life in 19th century America. China Grade is volume one, and Wrights is volume two. The complete trilogy is available as a Kindle ebook called Broken Tools. Also ...

Sixteen years after the gold rush, California underwent a social and cultural transformation with the influx of Chinese workers to build the transcontinental railroad. They filled the ranks of the Anglo-Americans. Together they risked everything battling the elements in the high Sierra while laying track. China Grade is the story of two Chinese brothers and a Cornish family searching for a better tomorrow. Their lives, hopes, and dreams cross paths in unexpected ways. This novel is an insightful historical account wrapped around a love story. It breathes life into the people who built the ...

More in-depth coverage of Mt. Hamilton and Sierra rides, with maps, that goes beyond accounts of rides with Jobst Brandt from 1980 to 2007. There is some overlap of content with Once Upon a Ride, but both publications stand on their own. Available in print. Updated October 2023

Desperate to find an experienced blaster, the owners of the South Pacific Coast Railroad turn to the Chinese for help. Chen, veteran transcontinental railroad blaster at the Donner Summit tunnel, agrees to return to his old job, with conditions. During the arduous four-year nightmare to drill and blast four tunnels through the Santa Cruz Mountains, he faces racial discrimination, unsafe working conditions and other unimagined dangers. The author spent long hours sorting through recently uploaded online newspapers from the era, which provide new insights to the construction of the tunnels. ...

It’s high-wheelers versus the new safety bike in a knock-down, drag-out seven-day bicycle race – elbows flying. In the year 1889, bicycles reigned supreme and races drew thousands of cheering fans. Tab Huntsman, aspiring reporter and cyclist, joins amateur racer Gary Mandrel in their quest to prove the safety bike is better. They’re up against professionals on high-wheelers. And so begins a week-long event on an indoor track, filled with skullduggery, crashes, drugs, cheating, and cutthroat competition. Who will win the $1000 prize? Extensive research and the author’s cycling ...

Five stories about the adventures of Slug and Snail. Written for beginning readers. 64 pages. 50 illustrations. There are two print versions, color and black and white.

Skidders flaunt the law. These two-wheeled terrorists take on an increasingly mechanized future where autonomous cars dominate transportation. Washington politics grapples with laws to make them safer while foreign adversaries plot and scheme ways to hijack the president’s new self-driving car. Meanwhile, right-wing historical reenactors launch their assault on San Francisco backed by the mighty German Panther tank, owned by an eclectic collector of historical military vehicles. An Oakland motorcycle gang, led by Skull, joins them. Nick, a car industry insider, has a bird-eye view of ...

This book includes all of my columns published in the San Francisco Chronicle from 1985-1988. It is divided into Equipment (63), Repairs (16), Tours (34), Racing (17), Politics (11), People (13), Commuting and Safety (7), and Health (3). About 100,000 words. Includes the author's photos, or public domain. 22 photos.