The Coyotes Bicycle, Kimball Taylor
The Coyotes Bicycle, Kimball Taylor
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The Coyote's Bicycle
The Untold Story of Seven Thousand Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire

Author: Kimball Taylor

Narrator: Thom Rivera

Unabridged: 13 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/28/2018

Synopsis

For readers of Jon Krakauer and Susan Orlean, The Coyote's Bicycle brings to life a never-before-told phenomenon at our southern border, and the human drama of those who would cross.It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers—coyotes—and migrants could say how or why they’d gotten there. This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished. Taylor follows the trail of the border bikes through some of society’s most powerful institutions, and, with the help of an unlikely source, he reconstructs the rise of one of Tijuana’s most innovative coyotes. Touching on immigration and globalization, as well as the history of the US/Mexico border, The Coyote’s Bicycle is at once an immersive investigation of an outrageous occurrence and a true-crime, rags-to-riches story.

About Kimball Taylor

Kimball Taylor is the author of Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures, as well as, Drive Fast and Take Chances: Fair Warning from Surfers. He’s a long-time contributor to Surfer Magazine. Taylor has co-authored history books on Pipeline and Jeffreys Bay. Taylor holds a BA in Journalism and a MFA in Creative Writing. He has taught writing courses at San Diego State University and is an alumnus of The Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul

This is the type of book I wish there was a special bookshelf for in bookstores. It would magically be filled with unique one of a kind books that I would love to read and would find really interesting. It might be titled "books you will love be sure to. Buy more than one!" Sadly this type of magic......more

Goodreads review by Kirsten

There are distances in The Coyote’s Bicycle traveled by decidedly differing means. There is the distance between reporting and storytelling, narrative strands traveling from opposite ends that take pause; evolve. There’s the distance between expectation and fact, and then there is that place where d......more

Goodreads review by Luis

I guess I'll start by saying that no human is illegal. I say this because it took me a long time to feel like the author was at least bearable. Very early on he used the term "illegals", and he continues to use it in different ways all throughout. This then turned to certain moments in which he descri......more

Goodreads review by Jenna

3 ⭐️ I’m finding that stories about the border are really intriguing for me. Also I love bikes so this was kinda a marriage of the two ideas. The books switches between the coyote building his business of illegal bike crossing and the author trying to track him down. Not Gunna lie I was more interes......more

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