The Haynes Bicycle Book

by Bob Henderson and John Stevenson

Book Overview

This is the most detailed, colorful, best priced maintenance book now on the market. Every aspect of maintaining a bike is explained in step-by-step color photo detailed. The book for everyone who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563921375
• ISBN13: 9781563921377
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Motorbooks International
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

Detailed and Easy to Follow

This is a great instructional book for bicycle maintenance. It is written so that a novice in bicycle repair can understand the procedures. There is a chapter on how to disassemble and repair each aspect of your bicycle in detailed form. The book covers all different types of components on both road and mountain bikes. The instructions are easy to follow. The pictures are clear, and one can easily see what the authors are talking about. As a necessity, specialized bicycle tools are required to do many of the more complex manipulations. Each section has a troubleshooting guide, and chapter three is nothing but a troubleshooting guide. This book makes a great reference manual and will enhance one's basic knowledge of bicycle mechanics.

You can hang around a bike shop, watching techs, or...

You can learn a lot watching bike mechanics "operate". You can learn what tools to use, and how to apply them, and what pieces fall out when you take something apart. But who has time to hang around a bike shop? Wouldn't it be nice to have a book that shows you what to expect, and how to deal with it? This is it, in Technicolor glory.Every page of this book has clear color photos showing exactly what to do. The book is broken down by chapters for the various mechanical systems of the bicycle. Each chapter goes through the various technologies in use. (Example: five kinds of brakes.) Each one is ripped apart and put back together with you. Each chapter has a section on what tools you will need (and recommendations on saving money).Haynes is famous for automobile and motorcycle repair books, and this is even better than those: All photos are in color, the steps are broken down and illustrated clearly, with the use of tools shown explicitly. (This is not always the case with the automotive books, which assume a certain proficiency with mechanic's tools.) Very nicely done. I hope they update it periodically as bicycle technology evolves.

The Haynes Bike Repair Manual

I have a 1999 mountain bike that I love and want to maintain. This book is perfect! All of the problems that i've encountered have been addressed in the book, even though there's little information about "Y" frame suspensions. Each chapter on repair has a quick reference diagnosis chart. Before buying, I compared this book to the other top ranked repair books at the store, and this one was much easier to understand and use because of the clear way it's written and illustrated. If you don't already know much about bike repair, but love your bike, this book is for you!

The Haynes Bicycle Book

This book is a very good book for the hands on first time at home bike mechanic. The color pictures really make a difference in understanding the individual parts of each system. The explainations of how the each system works and how to maintain and repair is clear and consice. I would recommend this book to anybody.

Quintessential Bike Maintenance Manual

The best book for bike repair and maintenace I've ever had. Good, clear text and photos made it easy for me to understnad what to do and why. It enabled me to completely overhaul my bike last winter, and now it rides great! Don't leave home without this one. It's the biker's best tool.