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. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 25, 2017, at 11:46 AM, Grant Petersen <grant6...@gmail.com> 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 <msht...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/f46BnWiXa64/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
