Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair
eBook - ePub

Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair

About this book

Keep your bike on the road for the long haul! Whether you’re training, competing, or simply riding for fun, a properly tuned bike is essential to performance, efficiency, and safety. That’s where Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair comes in.

Author Daimeon Shanks takes a straightforward “you can do it” approach to maintaining and repairing your bike so it’s ready to go when you are.

Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair provides simple step-by-step instructions, accompanied by up-close photos, illustrations, and advice, for more than 100 repairs. You’ll learn these skills and more:

• Adjust derailleurs and troubleshoot shifting problems.

• True your wheels and tweak your hubs for a silky-smooth ride.

• Install caliper, cantilever, or V-brakes.

• Repair a broken chain on the roadside.

• Fix flats in no time flat.

• Maintain pedals and cleats for efficiency and comfort.

• Install or adjust a headset.

• Install handlebars, including aero bars and flat bars.

• Adjust your saddle for a perfect fit.

• Determine if a triple crankset is right for you.

So spend more time in the saddle and less time and money in costly repair shops. Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair is the one guide no cyclist should be without!

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Information

Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781492582359
Print ISBN
9781450407076
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. 1. The Modern Road Bike
  9. 2. Basic Maintenance
  10. 3. Frame and Fork
  11. 4. Handlebars and Stem
  12. 5. Saddles and Seatposts
  13. 6. Wheels
  14. 7. Tires
  15. 8. Brakes
  16. 9. Cranks and Chainrings
  17. 10. Shifters and Derailleurs
  18. 11. Chains and Cogsets
  19. 12. Pedals and Cleats
  20. 13. Achieving the Perfect Fit
  21. Appendix: Choosing and Working With a Bike Shop
  22. Glossary
  23. About the Author