The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair: For Road & Mountain Bikes
The fully revised and updated sixth edition of the best-selling guide to bike maintenance from the world’s leading authority on cycling
Whether they own the latest model or a classic with thousands of miles on it, beginner and experienced cyclists alike need a guide that will help them get their bikes out of the shop faster and keep them on the road longer. For more than 20 years, The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair by Todd Downs has done just that.
With troubleshooting sections to quickly identify and correct common problems, 450 photographs and 40 drawings to clarify all the step-by-step directions so even the complete neophyte can get repairs right the first time, and Web sites and phone numbers of bicycle and parts manufacturers, this is truly the ultimate bicycle repair and maintenance manual. Now better than ever, the newest edition contains the latest information on component kits and carbon fork specifications.
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- The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance Repair For Road Mountain Bikes
Complete, well-written, easy-to-understand. I like doing repairs and maintenance myself to save money. Now that I have a good bicycle, I want to service it myself. This repair manual is nice. It is full of good illustrations and pictures, tips, and advice. Most things are explained in an easy-to-understand manner. It’s obvious that the author likes servicing bicycles, and that he wants the reader to enjoy it too. This makes the book pleasant reading material as well.The book is also comprehensive–it explains all parts of the…
Helpful and promising, but ultimately falls far short of the kind of manual that I needed. First of all, I’d like to say that I bought this book prior to buying my first bicycle and without knowing anything at all about maintaining a bike. Reading it has been part of my studying up for a bicycle tour in the future. I would think that it is safe to say that there is no beginner of the subject much more inexperienced than me.With that said, this book was bound to be informative under almost any condition, and someone as new as me did learn quite a bit, but it was not…
Very informative