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Fix Your Bike: Repairs and Maintenance for Happy Cycling [Kietas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Hardback, 112 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 154x200x18 mm, weight: 380 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 03-Sep-2015
  • Leidėjas: Portico
  • ISBN-10: 1910232025
  • ISBN-13: 9781910232026
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 112 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 154x200x18 mm, weight: 380 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 03-Sep-2015
  • Leidėjas: Portico
  • ISBN-10: 1910232025
  • ISBN-13: 9781910232026
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Fix Your Bike is a brilliantly straightforward, stylish and no-fuss guide to DIY bike maintenance and safety that does exactly what it says on the tin teaching you the basics of bike maintenance so you can simply get on with riding your bike without encountering any further bumps in the road.



Everyone's cycling nowdays. City streets are thronged with cyclists on the latest cool bikes, and more and more of us are cycling for fun at the weekends. You may love to cruise the streets and lanes with the wind in your hair, but would you be able to fix your bike if it let you down?



Fix Your Bike is a brilliantly straightforward, stylish and no-fuss approach to getting you geared up and back on your bike in no time. It's a visually stunning, clear-cut and hands-on guide to DIY bike maintenance and safety that does exactly what it says on the tin. By teaching you the basics in plain terms and straightforward, step-by-step instructions you can simply just get on with riding your bike without encouraging any further bumps in the road. Speedy, easy and proficient, Fix Your Bike is full of shortcuts, tricks and techniques that all cyclists should know to help them get back (and remain) on the road.



Smart and beautifully illustrated, this book will aid and encourage you in all areas of bike maintenance from puncture repair to gear care, brake-tightening to chain-fixing this brilliant roadside companion will help you bring out the best in your bike.



Word count: 15,000



Other forthcoming titles in this series: Fix Your Home and Fix Your Garden.
The Wheel Benefits Of Cycling
An introduction
4(2)
Great Biking Moments
A timeline
6(2)
Get In Gear
All you need to begin your journey on two wheels
8(32)
Get a handle on the bike for you
8(20)
The bike brigade
28(4)
Sizing things up
32(3)
Lights
35(3)
Bells and whistles
38(2)
Fix And Maintain
Spick, span and spinning along
40(32)
Bike check
40(8)
Bike care
48(10)
Bike DIY
58(14)
Iride
Cycling safely in the city
72(22)
Getting around
72(8)
Staying safe
80(14)
Equipment And Security
Keeping you and your bike protected
94(15)
Lock, stock and keep barrelling along
94(4)
Find the right gear
98(8)
Carry on biking
106(3)
Useful Information 109
Born in France, Claire Rollet has lived in the UK most of her life. London is her home now, and she loves cycling around the city taking in its various cultures and landmarks. She works from a studio at the bottom of her garden. In terms of her process, first of all, Claire works out a composition and some ideas for the image using quick sketches to show to the client. She then creates a line drawing in Indian ink, then works on the colour digitally.



Jackie Strachan has been cycling since progressing from her first trike aged 4 (big boot, handy for mum's shopping) via assorted bikes, including a Moulton Super 4, to her current Brompton and Specialized Crossroads Cruz. Currently living in Somerset, she spent 10 years cycling through thick city traffic into Central London from the suburbs and is a veteran urban cyclist, well versed in the dos and don'ts of life in the cycle lane. She is the author of Fix It Good: Car.



Jane Moseley enjoys exploring cities in the saddle and is the author of a number of practical books, including Household Management for Men.