Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair

by C. Calvin Jones

Book Overview

A visit to your local mechanic costs you time and money, especially when you could learn to pull that bottom bracket yourself. But even the most seasoned home mechanic will find the Park Tool book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976553007
• ISBN13: 9780976553007
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Park Tool Co.
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The basics and more

I bought this book to better understand my own bicycle and how to repair it. Not being a professional and being only a sometime rider, and also being one who likes to do his own work, I needed a book that would tell me what I needed to know. This book exceeded my expectations as it also shows the tools I need and how to use them. Very basic material but it doesn't pre-suppose and unlimited knowledge of bicycle mechanics as some articles and magazines do. Well worth the price.

Direct, succinct, detailed, Up-to-date!

For decades, bicycle repair manuals repeated the same kind of general instructions for maintaining and repairing the bearings and mechanisms of the bicycle. Over the past 20 years, new mechanisms and materials used in bicycles now require more attention to torque settings and other adjustments, some of which are brand-specific. This new book strikes a data-packed balance between the general advice and the details relevant to modern bicycles for home bicycle mechanics. It doesn't read like a novel to me, though; it's top-notch technical writing!

Calvin Jones Knows his stuff

Prior to reading this book I knew absolutely nothing about the maintenance & repair of bicycles but as I just purchased a decent MTB I needed some sort of guide. Within an hour reading this book I discovered that my chain was too long, the rear derailleur housing cable was too short, my linear pull breaks were out of kilter and my front derailleur required some lateral adjustment - and this is a brand new bike!! I found the book to read more like a novel than a technical manual and could not put it down. It is extremely well written, the examples are beautifully photographed and I would highly recommend this book to anybody who owns a bike in fact I would go as far as to say you can not do without this book. Even a complete novice like me now feels confident enough to carry out the above adjustments myself and lets face it some people might not want to trust their brand new pride of joy to some local bike shop that charges like a wounded bull. As I get to feel more comfortable with doing my own maintenance and repairs this book will pay for itself over and over. Calvin Jones would have to be the authority on bicycle mechanics. Highly recommended