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This is an excellent guide to bicycle repair and maintenance, even for the novice and not-so mechanically inclined. Have fun and save valuable dollars in the process.
The photos are really detailed and clearly explain what the text is referring to. Highly recommended.
This is a great book for anyone wanting to save money and do their own bike maintenance and repairs. I highly recommend it. It's straightforward, easy to understand, and has lots of pictures to guide you through the process.
So, it would seem to be aimed at the rank novice, with 2 left thumbs--above a "Dummies" book, but not by a whole lot, IMHO.Zinn's book is more detailed, and offers a more comprehensive tour of subjects than this book. Both books have good illustrations, but this book is much less detailed and helpful. I bought this book and the Zinn book at the same time. It is VERY basic and leaves out detail needed to really tune anything to any extent.Having said that, this book does a fair job of showing how to do routine maintanence/repairs. It can be used by the novice, but aims at those who have some basic understanding of what is right before their eyes--bike or tool.However, if you are a gear-head, you probably won't be happy with less than Barnett's painfully exhaustive 4 volume set--which is likely overly detailed for anyone short of a professional shop-set.Anyway, if I had to do again I would have bought the Zinn book and skipped this one. It spends time describing things that should be obvious at a gance, while leaving out detail you need to fix something, however.
This is a good book for the beginner; it has a lot of drawings, pictures to help you understand different styles of bikes and the parts that make them a bike.I found that it had a little too much on the older bikes but perhaps this is good as I have taken a real liking to bicycles and hope to build my own this winter; Todd does not waste words, the book is well written and precise; it is nice to have when learning as it does provide a good understanding of how bikes parts work together to make a bicycle.It does have all but the latest shifters and such; in reality bikes are made of many brands and models of parts making it impossible for any single book to have all you need to know about all bikes; for the latest specifications most bike component manufactures have web sites where you can download your model of derailleur, fork for the manufactures specifications.I gave this 4 stars because of the dated information the negative and 4 for the positive comprehensive coverage of so many possible items he coverers so well.This is a good book for the beginner, gives a comprehensive illustrated example of how bikes work.Hooty
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