Sin City Rider
"Sin City Rider"...Rick's second book, following on from his equally enjoyable and insightful "Lines on the Bar...Whiskey on the Rocks", is a thrilling eye opener of a read, recounting his years as a member of a back-patched motorcycle club beginning in the early 1970's. In it, he strips bare the many romantic, nonsensical images of what being in what is often termed an outlaw club is all about, revealing the true, sometimes gritty, often eventful, but always honor-bound reality. Because dispite what you may have read elsewhere, being a club member is much more than riding a bike with your buddies and wearing the colors - it is about loyalty, dignity, being there for your bros, and above all else, commitment. This overriding sense of commitment shines through every page of Rick's words, with which he recounts in an engagingly laid-back but ruthlessly honest style of writing just some of the adventures, good and bad, that he and his fellow club members experienced over the years. There is humor, frustration, surprise, tragedy ( I guarentee the final chapter will tear your heart out ), joy, disappointment, and so much more here, plus a section in which he describes how he felt one night when entirely alone in the Nevada desert with just his Harley for company that is quite simply some of the most evocative poetry that I have ever read.