These 24 Reading Rides, written by Rogelio Garza, comprise a dizzying, non-trivial book. It is a non-fiction work conceived for cyclists and non-cyclists alike. Garza reflects constantly and poignantly on how bicycles have changed his life—and that of many others.

Rogelio Garza is a firebrand and a veteran music lover of a thousand battles waged at concerts and albums listened to, analyzed, and reviewed in a wide variety of print and digital media. Bicycles and Other Drugs is a profound two-wheeled journey as a passionate fan of a rebellious vehicle that resists its fashionable conversion by globalized hipsterism. With casual and funky language, Rogelio Garza transports us to a personal universe of stories in which counterculture, the legacy of Albert Hofmann, and high-decibel rock roll together as an autobiography of encounters and disagreements. Arm-to-arm struggles between reality and desire; between the present in this place and that which is just around the corner or the circuit, in the case of Ciudad Satélite, a few seconds, minutes or light years away, where everything is possible.