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Kimball Taylor is a long-time contributor to Surfer Magazine and the author of two books about the sport: Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures and Drive Fast and Take Chances. Taylor holds a BA in journalism and an MFA in creative writing and is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

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Average rating: 3.98 · 353 ratings · 58 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire 4.01 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures 3.84 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drive Fast and Take Chances: fair warning from surfers by Kimball Taylor, Grant Ellis (Photographer) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It seems odd that a story about a gift-the possibility of a new life in a new and prosperous country-begins with a thief, but in some ways this one does.”
― Kimball Taylor, The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire

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“This was the very role of the bicycles that wheeled over this same topography Just as seawater defined the tidal lands, the bicycles revealed America's economic and social systems by floating though its bloodstream and coloring-with sparkling chrome, metallic paints, a whir of spokes and flicker of handlebar ribbons-the murkiest corners and furthest reaches.”
― Kimball Taylor, The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire

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“I didn’t need to follow these particular bicycles anymore.They’d found their rightful place. They’d descended through the seven rings of fire--of importation, sale, impoundment, auction, contraband, confiscation, and donation--and here they were again in the hands of fresh new cyclist. It was as if the bikes had graduated from weird times on the traveling freak show, having filled the roles of the reptile man, the fire-eater, the sword-swallower, and now in retirement they’d become staid, calm, dutiful, and serviceable again--like postal workers, customs clerks, and crosswalk guards with colorful, secret pasts.”
― Kimball Taylor, The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire

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