Freelance writer/editor, motorcyclist, motojournalist, dogfather, optipessimist.

Missed  Shifts is a collection of stories told in the unique  voice of veteran motojournalist Jerry Smith, who served on the staff of Rider, Cycle Guide, and Motorcyclist. 

When motojournalist Jason Street is named in a lawsuit following  the suicide of tire manufacturer Sherman Case, whose products he panned  in print, he's put on leave by his editor at Motorcycle Monthly. But the  dead man's daughter refuses to accept her father killed himself, and hires Street to go on the road with racer Rusty McCann to find the killer.  With his professional life on hold and his personal life a shambles, Street takes the job and finds there's just as much danger off the race track as on it.

 "Your brother's death was not an accident," said the voice on the phone. "He was murdered." 

Based on this anonymous tip, motojournalist Jason Street sets off on a quest to find his brother's killer, uncovering a web of lies, professional rivalries, and the dark side of his sibling's life that makes Jason question whether he ever knew him at all, until he finds himself up against a ruthless foe who will stop at nothing--not even murder-- to silence him.

You can run from your past but you can’t hide from it. 

That’s especially true for Dennis, a small-time campus radical in his youth who’s now hiding from the law while managing a chain of auto-body shops in Northern California. 

When his old college crush shows up, followed by her ex-boyfriend who's one step ahead of a gang of vengeful drug dealers, Dennis must either face up to his past or go back on the run before the FBI and the meth mob catch up with him.

Jerry Smith has been a motojournalist for more than 40 years and an avid motorcyclist for more than 50. Rolling Stops is the story of how he turned a hobby into a profession and wound up  going down roads he never expected to ride. 

Success story or cautionary tale? You be the judge.