Bike Repair & Maintenance For Dummies Review

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(More customer reviews)Keep your bike in perfect working order and perform repairs at home or on the road with this simple step by step well explained manual for everyone who owns a bike.
Contents 23/25
Ease of Understanding/Practicality 21/25
Pictures/Illustrations 21/25
Additional Features 21/25
Total 86/100
Bike Repair & Maintenance For Dummies is your all in one repair and maintenance book to keep your bike on the road or trail without having to spend all that money in a shop. Maintain your bike whether on the road or at home and keep it in top shape, in tune and looking good with simple to follow steps.
From how your bike works to final adjustments and routine maintenance with a chart to keep you on schedule with your repair and maintenance you can keep your bike in tune and working. Bike Repair & Maintenance For Dummies is your all in one manual to keep those common street and mountain bikes using step by step instructions, illustrations and detailed photos to keep you on track with your repairs.
The book starts out logically with a general idea of how you're going to go about regular and routine maintenance as well as why you should do things on a regular basis. They also include some very good safety tips and general guidelines for bike riding and working on your bike at home or on the road.
The second chapter gets into how your bike works so you understand how your bike and various parts of it work together. The next section is on tools and maintenance techniques so you know what all those special tools are for as well as the common ones you may already have.
The book includes tips on tools you may not even need to buy but can rent if you do need them during your repair or maintenance. They also include helpful advice on setting up a workshop or area to work on your bike and the necessary equipment you need to work such as the all important bike stand.
The book continues on with road repairs and things you can do to tide you over until you get back home and can make the correct repairs. They also give a list of things you should always carry with you for these quick repairs and a list of items to take on extended trips.
Continuing chapters go into when to say enough is enough and seek out those expert bike shops to get your repairs done right and where to buy a bike to get the best deal for you. They continue the book with chapters on individual repair of the bike from the steering and handle bars to the tires and everything in between.
The book contains not only detailed repairs and maintenance as well as alignment to tips and hints to make things easier and some things you should not do. They have illustrations and photos that go hand in hand with the step by step sections for repair and maintenance to keep things simple and understandable.
They also include a few funny cartoons but more importantly they have those highlighted main points for each step and then explain the step right after that. They also include the tips with the usual For Dummies bulls eye and arrow to highlight each tip.
You also get the grayed sections of other useful and helpful information that did not really fit into the chapters and paragraphs but still helpful information. They have included plenty of helpful information and advice from how to shop for a bike to how a bike shop runs their business by helping you to buy parts and bikes.
Bike Repair & Maintenance For Dummies is a great step by step manual with all that extra content to not only help you with your bike but with many decisions in biking like purchasing new parts or even a new bike. Bike Repair & Maintenance For Dummies is well worth the cost and one of those must have books for anyone who wants to save money by doing even the simple stuff on your bike.
One thing I like with the For Dummies book is the step by step guides that have the necessary parts highlighted for easy repair and adjustment while you're actually doing it. When the book is lying open on the toolbox and you have a wrench in hand trying to figure out what to do next its right there in bold.
Bike Repair & Maintenance For Dummies is an excellent manual for repairing and maintaining your road and mountain bike at home so you can save money and do it yourself. I highly recommend Bike Repair & Maintenance For Dummies as an all in one repair and maintenance book that will help you keep your bikes in good working order.

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By coupling step-by-step instructions and detailed photos and illustrations, Bike Repair & Maintenance For Dummies gives readers the information they need to keep their bikes in working order, often without taking it to the shop.

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Take a Seat: One Man, One Tandem and Twenty Thousand Miles of Possibilities Review

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(More customer reviews)I picked up Dominic Gill's book after having seen the 45 minute or so documentary detailing his 24 month adventure on a tandem bike. I enjoyed the documentary and my hopes for the book were high, fortunately I was not disappointed. In a little under 300 pages, Gill chronicles the challenges, joys, and sheer physical effort that went into his journey. Honest, funny and descriptive the book transforms the reader into the world of long (really long) distance cycling, unconventional international travel, and the adventures of looking for new friends in strange places. Reading Gill's chronicle I found myself feeling all the things he must have felt, and isn't that the purpose of a truly great read? To find yourself in a world different from your own, to identify with a character and to feel the thrilling sense of adventure found within the pages of "Take A Seat".

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A remarkable journey of sharing and self-discovery When Dominic Gill set out from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, by bicycle on June 16, 2006, it was to be no ordinary bike ride. His goal was to reach Ushuaia, the southernmost city in South America, nearly 20,000 miles away, and he was starting off with virtually no money in his pocket, barely enough food to last a week, and, worst of all, with thousands of miles between him and his friends and family. But Dominic had a plan: His bicycle, Achilles, was a tandem and the spare seat was his secret weapon. He would invite strangers to join him on his long journey-strangers he hoped would become friends and help him turn a terrifying prospect into the adventure of a lifetime. In Take a Seat, Dominic tells the story of his incredible journey. Over twenty-six months, he covered 18,449 miles down the west coast of the Americas, passed through fifteen countries, was looked after by countless strangers, crashed into a Mexican banana truck, was nearly attacked by a mob of Bolivian political demonstrators, cycled past active volcanoes, and didn't have a single haircut. All sorts of colorful characters took a seat on Achilles-from a meditating, pot-smoking French Canadian named Pierre to the dark-haired Joselyn from Chile. Eventually, he reached Ushuaia, freezing and exhausted and with another new friend behind him-the 270th person to take that seat. He had achieved his dream. * In summer 2010, Dominic and his tandem bike embarked on a trip across America and headed toward New York City with a group of elderly and disabled people. The core values of this new journey remain the same: To travel. To share. To inspire. Dominic filmed the entire journey. To learn more, go to domandernie.com.

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