Product Description

"Pocket Mountain Bike Maintenance" is a complete guide to keeping your bike healthy and on the road. It tells you everything you need to know when you are out and about on two wheels, including rescue repairs for the trail, important safety and maintenance checks, vital tools to carry and crucial advice, which will stand you in good stead wherever you end up. You'll never need to worry again about breaking down miles from anywhere. Whatever the symptom, "Mountain Bike Maintenance" provides the solution, aided by 'how-to' sequences that provide visual direction to the task in hand. Don't leave home without it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #214535 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Mel Allwood is a director of Brixton Bicycles and mechanic for their mountain bike race team. She ran a successful bicycle maintenance course for women from 1995 to 1998, was Technical Editor for Mountain Bike Maintenance magazine and was a contributor to Cycling Today and On Your Bike. She has worked in bicycle shops since the age of 15 and been a mountain-biker since 1988. She now writes the Product Review pages for London Cyclist magazine. She lives in south London.

Customer Reviews

Very Useful, for basics and beyond.
Yes I liked this book very much. Its my first book on bike maintenance, so I am a complete novice.

But I find it clear and concise. It translates the bike langauage to something I can understand.

I dont claim to understand all in this book, and there are certainly many repairs etc explained that I could not do, due to inexperience, or lack of tools. But at least I understand what they are trying to achieve.

I am now ok at most of the rescue repairs, puncture, new inner tube, broken chain, even adjusting the gears.

I also found the regular checks very informative. Before I just checked my tyre pressure, now I check other things such as brakes and lubricants, and I always clean the bike now after use.

The book itself is small and has a plastic cover to keep it dry if you need to carry it with you.

Its excatly what I wanted, something to explain the basics, and something for me to learn more in the future when I get more acclimatised to cycling.

Brilliant!
This book is perfect for beginner to advanced users. It is perfect for on the trail/workshop repairs, and has instilled a real interest in my bike and how it works.

If you want to save some mechanics fees, get this book, it uses such an easy to understand format which is so hard to find on any technical manual.