Nik Colyer

ik C. Colyer, born 1948, grew up and lived in Hayward, California. While in still in his teens he created Cycletherapy, a Harley customizing and repair shop. After five years, he decided to go for a year of college where he found his next career as an artist creating bronze and stone sculpture.

In 1974, he moved to the Northern California Sierra Nevada Mountains where he spent a year on a forty acre ranch with ten other like-minded young people. During this time, he devoured fiction. Six years later he started to write. His first novel took twelve years, but after its completion, he became a dedicated novelist.

Colyer has completed seven novels, with Channeling Biker Bob as his fourth, and first to be published. Though his work is fictional, he draws from his early experiences of riding Harley’s, as well as his subsequent thirty-year transformation into integrated masculinity. His unending curiosity about the relational dance between men and women adds humor and quirkiness to the content of his writing. Finding equilibrium between the tough biker, while staying close to authentic masculine feeling, is a theme throughout this book and most of Nik C. Colyer’s writings.

At age 53, he resides with his wife, deep in the woods, north of Nevada City, California. Though writing novels is his first love, he continues his romance with sculpture through the process of making gold and silver jewelry.