Mountain Bike Repair Handbook - Softcover

An updated and comprehensive guide to repairing off-road bikes.

In previous books like The Complete Mountain Biker, Dennis Coello won legions of fans for his common-sense approach to the intricacies of cycling. In The Mountain Bike Repair Handbook, Coello transforms the complexities of mountain bike repair into simple, step-by-step stages that even the most nonmechanical cyclist can easily understand.Mountain bikes have unique frames, brakes, wheels, and other components, and they bang their way over rough territory - which makes for specialized repair requirements. Using over 100 photographs and diagrams, The Mountain Bike Repair Handbook steers the mountain biker through the most common repairs to the main segments of the mountain bike: wheels, derailleurs, brakes, chains, handlebars, and much more. In tandem with two highly experienced mechanics who served as advisors on this book, Coello presents an extremely levelheaded and thorough guide to repairing the most popular form of bicycle today.This updated and revised edition contains up-to-date information on suspension forks and the latest shifting systems. (6 X 9, 160 pages, b&w photos, diagrams, charts)