Books on Bike Maintenance

The Ultimate guide to Bicycle maintenance is a new guide to the potentially tricky area of bike maintenance. It includes different types of bikes from mountain bikes to road bikes.

Overall it is fairly easy to read and the image captions are helpful in making practical sense of the descriptions.

It is helpful and will serve as a useful guide from relative beginners to more experienced cyclists.

One downside is ads for other magazines within the book. It does give the impression it is rather commercial enterprise. I can’t see it inspiring people to go out and buy men’s health anyway so I don’t know why they bothered recently.

Of course, for some things, even the best bike book struggle to convey, such as indexing gears. Why is it always so hard to know which is max and min for rear cassettes? You can’t beat learning from someone else. But, this will serve as a good reference to maintaining bikes.

• Ultimate guide to bike maintenance

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