Re: [RBW] Re: Grant's Other Book

[Grant Petersen]

I'm still with Mary Anderson, and I like that, too.

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:01 PM, BenG  wrote:

> First time I saw this cover I noted "with Mary Anderson" and I like that.
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Re: [RBW] Re: Grant's Other Book

[BenG]

First time I saw this cover I noted "with Mary Anderson" and I like that. 

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Re: [RBW] Re: Grant's Other Book

[James Warren]

My brother fell in love with riding again shortly after moving to the Santa 
Clara area, and in 2006 the copy of Roads to Ride South I gave him was his main 
guide. He got a LOT of mileage out of it both literally and figuratively. It 
taught him all the best places between San Mateo and Saratoga. Great book, and 
still very useful now. I use it too (and the North one.)

-Jim W.


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> On Feb 25, 2017, at 11:46 AM, Grant Petersen  wrote:
> 
> My current publisher isn't interested, and an agent I know says the internet 
> has made it obsolete. I don't think so. People still hold paper now and then, 
> and it sold well back then and would do better now. When it was current, I 
> had a lot of credit cqrd debt and checking account overdraft charges, and the 
> only lasting thing I bought with the royalties was a Yamaha studio upright 
> piano for my wife, and it's ten feet from me right now. A reprint would take 
> maybe 80 hours to update, and I don't have the time. But the topographies are 
> unchanged, and the brief road descriptions are...in most cases still current, 
> and the 80 hours would go mostly to adding maybe 20 more roads and making 
> sure Road X didn't now intersect another road, or that urban sprawl hadn't 
> completely obliterated all bucolic-ness of some of the nicer roads.
> 
> If I knew somebody trusty and not weird who had time to update it and would 
> do it "to spec, with a short freedome leash" and agree to 25 percent of the 
> royalties, and do the work on speculation with a modest kill fee if it didn't 
> get published, I'd set that ball in motion...but it's a longshot. Mark here 
> should do it. He'd be perfect, but I don't think he'd be interested.
> 
>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Max S  wrote:
>> As a Bay Area expat living in the Midwest, still regularly visiting the Bay 
>> Area, I would love to have both tomes. Any chance of a reissue / electronic 
>> version?..
>> 
>> - Max
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Re: [RBW] Re: Grant's Other Book

[Max S]

I recently bought a paper version of "Dirt Road Washtenaw County" and also 
"Switchbacks" in the hopes of doing some trips around the European mountains in 
the future... I'd definitely sign up for a reissue of the Bay Area books. 

Anyone else?.. we can do a GoFundMe thing to raise the money for it!  :-) 

- Max 

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Re: [RBW] Re: Grant's Other Book

[Grant Petersen]

My current publisher isn't interested, and an agent I know says the
internet has made it obsolete. I don't think so. People still hold paper
now and then, and it sold well back then and would do better now. When it
was current, I had a lot of credit cqrd debt and checking account overdraft
charges, and the only lasting thing I bought with the royalties was a
Yamaha studio upright piano for my wife, and it's ten feet from me right
now. A reprint would take maybe 80 hours to update, and I don't have the
time. But the topographies are unchanged, and the brief road descriptions
are...in most cases still current, and the 80 hours would go mostly to
adding maybe 20 more roads and making sure Road X didn't now intersect
another road, or that urban sprawl hadn't completely obliterated all
bucolic-ness of some of the nicer roads.

If I knew somebody trusty and not weird who had time to update it and would
do it "to spec, with a short freedome leash" and agree to 25 percent of the
royalties, and do the work on speculation with a modest kill fee if it
didn't get published, I'd set that ball in motion...but it's a longshot.
Mark here should do it. He'd be perfect, but I don't think he'd be
interested.

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Max S  wrote:

> As a Bay Area expat living in the Midwest, still regularly visiting the
> Bay Area, I would love to have both tomes. Any chance of a reissue /
> electronic version?..
>
> - Max
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Re: [RBW] Re: Grant's Other Book

[Max S]

As a Bay Area expat living in the Midwest, still regularly visiting the Bay 
Area, I would love to have both tomes. Any chance of a reissue / electronic 
version?.. 

- Max 

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Re: [RBW] Re: Grant's Other Book

[Grant Petersen]

Ben Davis "Can't Bust 'em" sticker. Yes, a Ritchey (good eye)--lugged and
crowned from '77.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:44 AM, 'Mark in Beacon' via RBW Owners Bunch <
rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Double bandana! Bike with sticker! Regular clothes! Beginnings of S24O! A
> watch! I have little doubt there is an ax somewhere off-camera. Is that a
> Ritchey logo on the head tube of that bike? (Love the color.)
>
>
> On Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 5:37:51 PM UTC-5, danmc wrote:
>>
>> Here you go!
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Re: [RBW] Re: Grant's Other Book

[William R.]

Classic! Cool timeless "dire straits" look Grant. Downloaded for future use. 
Thanks Dan.

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Re: [RBW] Re: Grant's Other Book

['Mark in Beacon' via RBW Owners Bunch]

Double bandana! Bike with sticker! Regular clothes! Beginnings of S24O! A 
watch! I have little doubt there is an ax somewhere off-camera. Is that a 
Ritchey logo on the head tube of that bike? (Love the color.)

On Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 5:37:51 PM UTC-5, danmc wrote:
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> Here you go! 
>
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Re: [RBW] Re: Grant's Other Book

[Joe Bunik]

IIRC, there's something funny about the "About the author" page in the
back… maybe Dan can post a pic?

On 2/23/17, Dan McNamara  wrote:
> Strangely enough, I have my copies at work.
>
>
>
> Dan
>
>> On Feb 23, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Greg J  wrote:
>>
>> As I recall, there were 2:  East of the Hills and West of the Hills.
>>
>> I picked up West at a used book shop in Berkeley years ago.  I'd love to
>> pick up a copy of East of the Hills too.  I never thought to look it up on
>> Amazon.
>>
>> Greg
>> Oakland, CA
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Monday, February 20, 2017 at 3:01:14 PM UTC-8, Eric Norris wrote:
>>> To All:
>>>
>>> If anybody is interested in reading Grant's 1984 book on cycling routes
>>> in the Bay Area, send me a few bucks for postage and I'll mail it to you.
>>> You can mail it back to me when you're done or it can circulate. All I
>>> ask is that it eventually return to me.
>>>
>>> Fun fact: Grant dedicated the book to B.F.Skinner and … Bob Dylan. The
>>> latter, of course, went on to become the muse for Rivelo in Portland OR.
>>>
>>>
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