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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 Bike Maintenance & Repair has done just that.
With troubleshooting sections to quickl
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Excellent repair book and inexpensive,
I ordered this aswell as the big blue book of bicycle repair from park and this book won hands down in every area. The price is half, the information is better and more detailed and it covers areas the park book doesn’t. If you want to learn how to overhaul your bike as I did, this is the book to get.
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|Even WalMart and Target bikes!,
I used this baby to take apart that Target bike I had hanging in the garage for 5 years. It was so great, it had everything, even the cheap cruddy gear on my bike was covered, and I managed to put the bike back together again too! I discovered there was more to chain lube than that old can that you pushed on the bottom and dripped oil on the chain with. Plus I found out that I had the wrong size bike, completely, that my shifting system was the one they put on 3 speeds back in the 60′s, and that it never pays to pry off stuff with the sharp part of the tool pointed at yourself. HOWEVER, the point is, this book ROCKS! I, a complete neophyte (mechanically speaking) took this bike to pieces and it went back together with not one screw left over. I actually did the Hans and Franz PUMP YOU UP pose after finishing.
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|Good for basics, no so much for even somewhat advanced,
I’m former bike shop manager and longtime mechanic. Somebody bought this for me as a gift. I thought even an old dog can always learn a few new tricks, but this book really has none for someone who already knows something about bike repair. I kept running into sections where the procedure called for bringing the bike to a shop. What good is that? If you need to learn the basics, this is a decent book. If you need to know advanced techniques, you’ll be far better off finding the info on the web, either at the manufacturer’s site or someplace like Sheldon Brown’s site.
Last weekend I saw my neighbor with his bike backwards on his new repair stand. I gave him the book…
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