Bicycle Repair Manual

by Richard Grant and Richard Ballantine

Book Overview

Easy-to-follow photographic sequences, accompanied by detailed text, along with a handy troubleshooting guide, offer solutions to every repair and maintenance task--from simple roadside repairs to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564584844
• ISBN13: 9781564584847
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Very clear and precise

This book is a great little gem. It is extremely readable and provides just enough information to get the job done without overwhelming the reader with an excessive amount of information. The pictures are well done and there is always exact information about what tools you will need. I would recommend this for people starting out on bicycle maintenance and routine repairs/fixes. If you want a more detailed book, you should check out "The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance and Repair" by Todd Downs. I found it much more readable than "Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance".

Wonderful help

I have been able to take apart and repair all of the children's bikes. I has saved us a bundle as we have eight. At $40 a bike plus parts I have repaired and rebuild for the time and cost of parts and my children have learned to do for them selves as well. It's a great book to have.

Essential Information for Greater Biking Enjoyment!

Reading this book made me want to go out and buy new bikes for the whole family!There's nothing quite like the pleasure of riding out of a beautiful bike showroom on a great bicycle! Yet within months, I always noticed that the feel was gone. Pretty soon, I wasn't riding as much. Now from reading this book, I know that all bikes need regular maintenance to keep that top-performance feeling. And I know what to do. It's a wonder that my bikes and my children's bikes ran at all before reading this book! My idea of bike repair was to patch a puncture, adjust the seat and handle bars, and get a new chain if it broke. That's about 3 percent of what you really need to know.The book is also useful as a guide to what type of bike to buy in the first place. The pros and cons of various types of materials and structures are well developed. For those who enjoy mastering physical tasks, this book also offers much potential pleasure. "Keeping your bike in tip-top shape is very satisfying -- and makes riding more enjoyable." Although I am far from being a mechanical person, I could clearly do everything in the book. But I do need different tools. No problem! The book shows you just what to buy, with many choices (more kinds of bike stands than you ever knew existed, as an example). Not only that, it tells you which ones to take with you on a long touring ride. If you don't have the right tool, it shows you how to improvise with materials usually found along the side of any road. This was fascinating! In fact, the paperback is just the right size to take along on a ride, so you can figure out what to do if you bend a rim. One of the real insights for me was to realize that all of the bearings are meant to be rebuilt once a year. And there are a lot of bearings on any bike. Where a bike might have different types of equipment (such as for brakes and transmissions), you get descriptions of what to do with all the major types. Many pictures show you what each part looks like, and the steps to go through for maintenance. This is the main drawback of such a compact book. Some of the images can be a little small. But I see no way around that if you are to have a truly portable guide to repair and maintenance.Most people will decide to still get some maintenance and repair at the local bike shop. But this book can show you what's involved so you can figure out what it might cost in time and money to do the work yourself. One of my favorite parts of the book was the Troubleshooting Chart to give you an idea from the symptom you have observed what is a likely cause, the solution, and where the information is found to implement that solution.I suggest that you both get this book and try doing some of the maintenance. If you enjoy this, it could become a very satisfying hobby. You could also do maintenance for other people to help cover the cost of the tools. I suspect that less than 1 bike in 50 is properly maintained. If you have children wh

A comprehensive guide recommended for all cyclists.

Richards' Bicycle Repair Manual can be read in two ways. 1.As a manual for repairing and mainaining a modern bicycle and 2.As a sensual coffee-table type of book which is a pleasure to pour over.For this reason, planning some bike maintenance becomes an enjoyable process from the beginning.The graphic design and layout is faultless, pictures are sharp and charts clear. Anyone interested in bicycles is guaranteed to dribble over the close-up of the Campagnola rear cluster!The book is in a category of it's own, comparable to sensual glossy recipe books yet comprehensive.I recommend it to anyone interested in keeping their bike in top shape or simply becoming familiar with the workings of a bicycle. It could never be described as dry or dull.