Anybody’s Bike Book Combining easy-to-follow instructions with fun illustrations, this edition includes: new information on cruisers; updated road and mountain bike information; and the familiar part-by-part, system-by-system troubleshooting guide, taking the reader from front forks to rear derailleurs.
Customer Review: A great book, except for two kinds of potential readers…
First of all, if you happen to have the author’s “All-in-One Bike Repair Manual”(1996), you won’t need this. They are about 95% identical, with the introduction of the V-brake (to the exclusion of the U-brake) being the only significant diffence.
Secondly, if you happen to have an old three-speed that you might want to refurbish, forget either of these books. In the earlier tome he was “sad to say” that he had to drop the three or four pages which would have to been added to address their unique needs, and in the current book, he does not mention them at all. However, if you can get a hold of an earlier version of the Everybody’s Bike Book, you will learn all you need to know…
For all others who are not addressed above, I highly recommend this book. I have a first edition which is still my bible to the care and feeding of two-wheelers.
Customer Review: The book of my youth
This is a great book; it was the book that got me interested in working on my bicycle way back in the 70’s. I love the drawings and the verbage. This in not the super-techincal book you buy for becoming the master mechanic on your highly-tuned road racing machine; ratherly, it’s the book you have around to answer simple questions or to loan to some kid on the block to help them fix their bike. For that it’s the best, somewhat like Mad Magazine meets the Zen of motorcycle maintenance.
Buy it, you’ll like it.
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