Complete Bike Maintenance

by Fred Milson

This third generation of The Bike Book has been designed to help you get the very best from your bike. Produced by Motorbooks International, it gives step-by-step guidance on all aspects of bike care.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076031330X
• ISBN13: 9780760313305
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: MVP Books
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

Nice overviews

Nice overviews in detail. The only suggested I have is perhaps update the images with more modern components.

Very basic but great everyday book.

I definitely wouldn't say this is greatest bike maintenance book on the market. Far from it. But it is a great start for beginners and is probably all you need if you only want to do basic everyday tasks like making adjustments ect... I'd highly recommend this book to every family that has bikes.

Guideline to basic bicycle maintainance

This is a good reference for maintainance of bicycles. This book and a basic tool kit will keep you on the road.

Better than Zinn for most

While I think that the Zinn book (Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance) is pretty good, for most people this book will be much better. It is concise yet thorough, with plenty of detail, but not overly technical. And the book is filled with excellent color photographs -- hundreds of them. I took a couple of bicycle repair classes last winter at a local bike shop. Then, many months later, I decided to put what I had learned to good use by adjusting my derailleurs. I grabbed the Zinn book I had purchased last year for a quick reminder of how to make that adjustment. It didn't make any sense. His procedure was too complicated, his description confusing, and he didn't even talk about the obvious trick to setting the low gear position on the rear derailleur. I set the book aside and fumbled my way through the procedure from what I could remember from the class. I was not satisfied with my results. Then, while at a local bookstore recently, I saw "Complete Bike Maintenance" by Fred Milson sitting on the shelf. I took a gander to see if it had a better explanation of the adjustment procedure. As soon as I opened the book, I was grabbed by the beautiful color photography. I located the sections on adjusting derailleurs. Mr. Milson has described the adjustment in a few simple steps, and his description was very similar to what I remember from the class. I immediately bought the book and readjusted my gears the following weekend. They came out great! My only complaint is that there should have been one more photograph for the rear derailleur setup -- one showing a view from the rear with the two jockey wheels lined up with the smallest sprocket. The written description gets you there just fine, but there was room on the page for one more picture. All of the other chapters appear to be just as good -- great pictures, easy to understand text. I can't believe I'm the first person to write a review for this excellent repair manual. I'll hang on the the Zinn book for reference (you can't own too many reference books), but Complete Bike Maintenance will be the first book I will grab when heading out to work on my bike.