Illustrated guide to bicycle maintenance pdf

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Have a card? Add it now to start borrowing from the collection. Need a card? Sign up for one using your mobile number. The library card you previously added can't be used to complete this action. Please add your card again, or add a different card. It gets leafed through a lot in my house. Chainbreaker is the bible of DIY bike repair. As a female mechanic I especially got a lot out of it.

Both authors have clocked time working on bike repair shops and know a thing or two about their upkeep. Even as a bicycle outsider, I was enthralled by the enthusiasm and clear resolve of the writers to make a difference in their own lives. I want to travel everywhere by bike. I own a mountain bike, but I want to buy an urban fold-up bike.

This book would be perfect for me to begin my radical, bike-everywhere commuting plan! A punk-rock mechanics manual, breaking down the art of bike maintenance to a level that anyone can understand, with a friendly, encouraging voice and charming, hand-drawn illustrations.

This book is a double treasure. It aims at empowering and teaching readers to do their own repairs and save money. The emphasis is on ordinary bikes and not on high-end road bikes. I liked this book for its style and perspective. All four issues of the zine are reproduced in the second half of this book. She goes on for a little while describing all the BS she has to deal with at the shop and I think that after taking it all in it will help me stay aware and sensitive of how women are treated in shops and the bike scene.

At one point in the boo, it might have been the zine reprint section, there were some words regarding fixies, and it went something like paraphrasing …. Both authors were volunteers at Plan B, a community bike organization, and I just got a really good impression of both N. O and Plan B, enough to spark an interest in visiting N.

It did however give a good explanation of why freehubs and better than freewheels. In all I liked this book and you should check it out, unfortunately no library in New England has it on their shelves. Ask you local branch to order it? Or order it from the publisher for 12 bucks here The Chainbreaker book is part funky hand-illustrated guide to bike mechanics and part zine Chainbreaker was once a zine based in pre-Katrina New Orleans.

Consider it a manual to the DIY bicycle revolution. Buy it from your local book shop, online bookseller or direct from the publisher.

Though there are reprints from the zine, The Chainbreaker Bike Book is more than a zine book; most of this is new material—a guide to bicycling and to the basics of bike repair.

The bike guide starts by talking you through choosing and buying a bike, then listing and describing what tools you will need for bike repairs. It then gives instructions for repairs, divided by bike part, and including some very homespun illustrations. The writing is friendly and clear, and if I had the tools and the time, I would have road tested Chainbreaker by overhauling my bike.

I felt like I could do it with this book at hand. Focus often returns to the sexism experienced by woman mechanics working in bike shops, including horror stories about customers ignoring female mechanics or asking for men to work on their bikes. What I like is that it covers maintenance on electronic and speed systems, and it even has a section dedicated to wheel building, which I have yet to perform.

Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. This smartly organized and clearly illustrated guide—now in two colors for easier reference—can make a bike mechanic out of anyone. Please click button to get zinn the art of road bike maintenance book now. Torrent Contents. Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance pdf.

Lennard Zinn, author of the most well organised and best illustrated guide to road bike repair and maintenance on the market, shares his wealth of road bike knowledge in this new, updated edition.