Complete Idiot’s Guide to Bike Maintenance and Repair
The Complete Idiot’s Guide(r) to Bike Maintenance and Repair provides recreational cyclists with the “do-it-yourself” means to maintain and service their own bikes without having to pay someone else to do the dirty work. Rather than spanning the entire field of bicycling, this book focuses on those things readers need to know in order to keep their bikes safe and trouble-free– including, bike basics, workings, maintenance before and after riding, tools and accessories and common repairs.
No real help
a COMPLETE IDIOT wrote this book.
terrible.. i was hoping to get an easy step-by-step “how-to” guide to bike repair with diagrams & terminology, instead i got a completely opinionated book about bike etiqutte, general repairs that may be needed but no actual instruction on how to do any of them, useless cartoon illustrations, bad attemps by the author at what seems like “bicycle humor” if there is such a thing, and a whole lot of generalizations the novice probably already knows. they really will put out cliffnotes for…