Product Description

Whether you are an experienced or beginner mountain biker, knowing how to keep your bike in peak condition is essential to your enjoyment of the sport. Being able to recognise the early warning signs of trouble - and knowing what to do about them - means less time and money wasted getting your bike fixed and more time out on the trail. With colour photographs throughout, this practical manual includes illustrated, step-by-step guides to repairing and maintaining every single part of your bike. It also includes advice on tools and workshop setup, how to avoid problems in the first place and how to carry out emergency 'on the trail' repairs. This is the essential companion handbook for any mountain biker.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #207637 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 192 pages

Review
' This book is a comprehensive and accurate look at how to maintain your bike, easy enough for beginners to get into but somehow still enough detail for more experienced riders too ' --Mountain Bike Rider (July 2009)

About the Author
Guy Andrews is an experienced freelance cycling writer who has worked for all the major UK cycling magazines. He is the author of The Rough Guide to Cycling in London and is a keen mountain biker.

Customer Reviews

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This book could be a very lot better.
It goes on in detail about history, tips, general knowledge and tells to carry a spare bike around with you for spares, but is brief on the maintenance instructions.
There are many photos but all are minute, dark and impossible to see.
It is written specifically for mountain bikes but does not cover some popular systems.
The book progresses to advanced rebuilding of the bike, which I think has gone too far, and I would have preferred more detail on the standard and basic maintenance.

Really this book should have and could have been a very lot better. There has got to be better books out there for the general mountain biker.

Such a disappointment!
At first glance I was convinced that this book was going to be great. However, when I started to read it properly I was left asking a million questions!
The layout of the book is quite good with each section starting with an introduction and explanation about the part or system being looked at. After the intro is a step by step guide of how to change / fix / maintain the part or system being looked at, and has photo's to accompany each step being discussed. Unfortunately this is where the problem lies. Each 'step' is not fully explained because a photo is squeezed in to sit next to it, and each photo is not shown in enough detail because there is text at the side of it! A Catch-22 situation that would probably be resolved by bigger pages, allowing a larger photo and more text.

If the book is aimed at beginners then they would be lost (as was I). If the book is aimed at more experienced bike maintainers then they would already know the basics that are being covered in this book.

How I wish the book was better - it has so much promise! I could not get any value from this book and I will probably ebay it to some unfortunate person :-(