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Old 04-07-08, 06:51 PM
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Bicycle servicing - book recommendations?
I need to give my bike a going over (I know, it doesn't go as fast as a Crapi, but it's a damn sight more reliable!).

So, I'm after a Haynes-style book which will tell me how to do stuff (everything from changing a tyre to servicing gears and mechanical fixing, that kind of thing).

My local bookshop only has one, a DK book which looked ok, but I thought I'd ask around and see if anyone knows of any good ones.

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I need to give my bike a going over (I know, it doesn't go as fast as a Crapi, but it's a damn sight more reliable!).

So, I'm after a Haynes-style book which will tell me how to do stuff (everything from changing a tyre to servicing gears and mechanical fixing, that kind of thing).

My local bookshop only has one, a DK book which looked ok, but I thought I'd ask around and see if anyone knows of any good ones.
Haynes do one.

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Forget Haynes, check out Park Tools
Once you get serious about this you'll need to spend a couple of £hundred on decent tools, but you can get the bare essentials for less than £50.
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You might wanna PM DanE, he knows everything about bicycles and lives near you too
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Worked in the trade when I was just out of school and while some of the tools look a bit specialised, a lot of the time you can get around having to use them. Your normal everyday, run of the mill tools work i most cases.
IN know from experience from working a state of the art workshop to helping a guy out who was starting a bike shop and had feck all decent tools so had to make do with ordinary tools and stripped knuckles!!
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The Haynes bike book is a good place to start and while you might need to buy some thin spanners they are not expensive and servicing a bike isn't rocket-science - just a tad fiddly at times and may cause temporary sense of humour failure. A cheap stand for the bike's rear wheels is a good investment.

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