The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance and Repair: For Road and Mountain Bikes(Expanded and Revised 5th Edition)
by Todd Downs
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Author: Todd DownsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-03-16
ISBN: 1579548830
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Rodale Books
Book Reviews of The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance and Repair: For Road and Mountain Bikes(Expanded and Revised 5th Edition)
Book Review: A Useless book
Summary: 2 Stars
Before buying this book, you should ask yourself for the purpose. If you want to know about bicycle, this book provides much information in different kinds and style. If you want to know how to repair and maintain bicycle, this book is pretty much useless. Indeed you can find information in more details in the Internet. For example, wheel truing is a tricky job. This book covers it in two pages. Same as other subject like brakes, derailleur. Basically this book does not provide tricks to repair or maintain your bike as an amateur, but assumes that you are professional with many professional tools. Another downside is all pictures in this book are black and white. Some are difficult to figure out.
So why this book is so popular? I believe many people like me did not go through this book in details, but only read good comments about this book. Plus, the 5th edition must be good. What a mistake. My advice is: pick a subject and spend 30 minutes in a bookstore and compare it with others such as "Do it Yourself Bike Book" by Mel Allwood. Afterward, it's your choice.
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