Coverage of the book by some of the area's best writers
Thanks to The Antique Motorcycle of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America and Ft. Sutter Historian Emeritus Rich Ostrander for writing a review of Sacramento Motorcycling a Capital City Tradition!
About the Author
Kimberly Reed Edwards has been writing articles and personal essays on travel, culture, and lifestyle for 40 years. She wrote this book to honor the racers, enthusiasts, dealers, and mechanics for what some called The Greatest Sport in the World. “I wanted to learn about the people and their habits, influenced by the roaring two-wheeler that came to town. This is our history - the pathfinders, many of whom we’ve never heard about, but who played important roles in the retail community, the chamber of commerce, civic positions, the police department – even the judicial system.”
A native Sacramentan, Kim holds an M.A. in Education. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of the Pacific (Elbert Covell College), in Latin American Studies and English as A Second Language. She lived in Costa Rica for a semester, fulfilling an internship at the newspaper La Nación.
Kim, who also writes under Kimberly A. Edwards, serves as president of the California Writers Club Sacramento. She is an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop (three times).
She has worked in bilingual and Title I classrooms and is retired from the California Department of Education, where she coordinated programs such as Blue Ribbon Schools, California Teachers of the Year, Achieving Schools, the GED Program, and the Milken National Educator Awards. She holds beautiful memories of the summer she lived and taught pre-school in the King City Migrant Camp.
At the Renaissance Society, she led a seminar on Writing Personal Histories. Attendees inspired her with their stories and their enthusiasm to write and share them, even if their own children weren’t interested – a common experience among people Kim’s age.
Kim’s father was a motorcycle dealer at 1520 16th Street in the 1950’s, so the scent and sounds of motorcycles are soothing and reassuring. Even when she grew up, her dad always kept a few trail bikes in the garage. To be reminded of the rider’s spirit, she joined Fort Sutter Motorcycle Club, the Antique Motorcycle Club of America, and the American Motorcycle Association. At the AMA museum in Pickerington, Ohio, she saw many names of enthusiasts who lived or raced here in the early years.
