Essential bicycle maintenance & repair: [step-by-step instructions to maintain and repair your road bike]

Keep your bike on the road for the long haul! Whether you’re training, competing, or simply riding for fun, a properly tuned bike is essential to performance, efficiency, and safety. That’s where Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair comes in. Author Daimeon Shanks takes a straightforward “you can do it” approach to maintaining and repairing your bike so it’s ready to go when you are. Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair provides simple step-by-step instructions, accompanied by up-close photos, illustrations, and advice, for more than 100 repairs. You’ll learn these skills and more: • Adjust derailleurs and troubleshoot shifting problems. • True your wheels and tweak your hubs for a silky-smooth ride. • Install caliper, cantilever, or V-brakes. • Repair a broken chain on the roadside. • Fix flats in no time flat. • Maintain pedals and cleats for efficiency and comfort. • Install or adjust a headset. • Install handlebars, including aero bars and flat bars. • Adjust your saddle for a perfect fit. • Determine if a triple crankset is right for you. So spend more time in the saddle and less time and money in costly repair shops. Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repai r is the one guide no cyclist should be without! Content: The modern road bike. Understanding your bike and how it works ; Building your home tool kit ; Setting up your home workshop -- Basic maintenance. Preride checks ; Postride checks ; Tune-ups -- Frame and fork. Installing a headset ; Installing a fork ; Repairing a frame -- Handlebars and stem. Installing and adjusting stems and handlebars ; Wrapping the handlebars ; Installing grips ; Working with special styles of bars -- Saddles and seatposts. Installing a seatpost ; Installing a saddle ; Adjusting an integrated seat mast -- Wheels. Adjusting skewers ; Truing a wheel ; Replacing spokes and nipples ; Adjusting hubs ; Making special wheel repairs -- Tires. Installing clincher tires ; Repairing a flat clincher tire ; Installing a tubeless tire ; Repairing a tubeless tire ; Installing a tubular tire ; Repairing a tubular flat -- Brakes. Installing a brake lever ; Installing brakes ; Installing and adjusting brake pads ; Installing a brake cable and housing ; Installing and adjusting special brakes -- Cranks and chainrings. Installing cartridge and external bottom brackets ; Installing adjustable bottom brackets ; Installing BB30 bottom brackets ; Installing BB90 and other press-fit bottom brackets ; Installing Shimano and SRAM external bottom brackets and BB30 cranks ; Installing Campagnolo ultra-torque cranks ; Installing and replacing chainrings -- Shifters and derailleurs. Installing shifters ; Installing cable and housing ; Installing and adjusting the rear derailleur ; Installing and adjusting the front derailleur ; Troubleshooting shifting ; Installing and adjusting special shifters and derailleurs -- Chains and cogsets. Installing chains ; Installing a freewheel ; Installing a cassette ; Maintaining and repairing chains and cassettes -- Pedals and cleats ; Installing pedals -- Installing cleats on shoes ; Maintaining pedals and cleats -- Achieving the perfect fit. Frame fit ; Saddle height ; Crank length ; Saddle and cleat position ; Handlebar width and height ; Stem length ; Special fit cases -- Appendix. Choosing and working with a bike shop. Abstract: Teaches cyclists how to maintain and repair their bikes with minimal investment in specialized tools. Written for the DIY enthusiast, not the professional mechanic, this book takes a straightforward approach to cycling's most common repairs. Each repair comes with numbered step-by-step instructions and close-up photo sequences. Read more... Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair teaches you how to repair your bike with minimal investment in specialized tools. Written for the do-it-yourselfer, not the professional mechanic, each repair includes step-by-step instructions and photo sequences, making the book an accessible and essential resource for any cyclist. In this text, Daimeon Shanks shares his expertise as a bicycle mechanic and teaches cyclists how to maintain and repair their bikes with minimal investment in specialised tools. Numbered step-by-step instructions and close-up photo sequences accompany each repair, making them easy to follow and implement