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FitnessProsBooks.com - The Bicycle Book (Haynes Automotive Repair Manual Series)
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List Price: $22.95
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Manufacturer: Thomson Delmar Learning
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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Haynes
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.28772
EAN: 9781563924286
Feature: Great for all types of home bicycle repairs and improvements
ISBN: 1563924285
Label: Thomson Delmar Learning
Manufacturer: Thomson Delmar Learning
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2001-07-01
Publisher: Thomson Delmar Learning
Studio: Thomson Delmar Learning
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Great for all types of home bicycle repairs and improvements
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Haynes bicycle maintenance manual
Comment: This manual was reccommended by many biking enthusists. I find it very easy to read and use. It is out of publication however Amazon delivered it promptly and the price was great. Good riding!
Customer Rating:
Summary: The only repair guide you need.
Comment: I have the Big Blue Book and Chris Sidwell's book and in my opinion this is the best. With all the pictures and step by step instructions,it is easy to understand. Buy it. You will be glad you did!
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Summary: A good place to start
Comment: This is a great book for beginners and there are plenty of photos to assist the reader together with step by step instructions. On the downside, as noted in other reviews, the technologies covered seem a little bit dated and seem to have a bias toward the 1990s or earlier, for example my headset/stem are not covered. Some of the page layouts are a bit jumbled in places, but on the whole it is easy follow.
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Summary: Pretty good book overall on medium-level mechanics
Comment: Clearly, HAYNES having published 1,000's of home-repair
automobile mechanics on 100's of different model cars,
it was time for them to make some extra cash, and do a book
on bicycle repair, too! Having seen the automobile books, they
do come in handy for cars built back in the 80's and some in
the 90's, but increasingly, home repair has become next to
impossible as cars become electronic gadgets and computerized
in all aspects, and I'm not referring to remote car starters,
or even GPS systems or boomerang anti-theft tracking devices,
either.
Specifically, in regards to this book, it has a lot of glossy
color photos, but only average desktop publishing skills in
arranging text, and photos. It's practical, for sure, and is not
introductory, either.
Part of this book, reminds me of PARK TOOL's school manual they
give out after their quick weekend-course on bicycle
maintenance, in the sense that dozens of different specialized
tools are seen in the pictures, that the home mechanic will not
have, obviously, and considering they're specialized tools, with
low sales volume, are probably very costly to acquire from PARK
themselves, or through your LBS.
The final conclusion on this book, is that it's definitely worth
the price, if you're interested at all, in maintaining a bike,
doing work on it, and repairs. I'm not referring to high-end
bikes, MTB's or road costing $1000's of dollars, but your low-
end, mass-marketed and sold bikes costing $200, for example.
It has walk-thru's, color pictures, diagrams, explanations,
lists tools you need to do the work to repair so-and-so
situation, is sturdy, and almost 200 pages.
Customer Rating:
Summary: great for beginners
Comment: This is a great bike maintenace book for beginners. The photos and directions are very easy to follow. The techniques they describe are not fancy and do not require expensive tools. For more complex jobs, they tell you to visit your bike shop, which is probably what a beginner should be doing. Intermediate-to-advanced home mechanics should look at the Zinn or Park books instead.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Total Car Care is the most complete, step-by-step automotive repair manual you'll ever use. All repair procedures are supported by detailed specifications, exploded views, and photographs. From the simplest repair procedure to the most complex, trust Chilton's Total Car Care to give you everything you need to do the job. Save time and money by doing it yourself, with the confidence only a Chilton Repair Manual can provide.
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