Bike Maintenance For Dummies, Pocket Edition E-Book

Gavin Wright

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 179

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Keep your bike and yourself in good shape If you're a part of the Lycra brigade and need some guidance on maintaining your machine, this book is for you! Discover practical advice on testing your brakes, adjusting your seat height, replacing a wheel, and much more. Open the book and find: * Help with attaching safety lights * How to clean your chain properly * Tips for finding and fixing a puncture * Ways to check tyre pressure

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ISBN: 978-1-11860-807-4

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Bike Maintenance For Dummies®

Table of Contents

Introduction

About the Author

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Chapter 1: Your Bike: The Basics

Meeting Your Bike

Defining Your Needs

Asking the Tough Questions

Building a Relationship with Your Bike

Finding a space for your bike

Recognising its features: Knowing which bit is which

Adorning your bike with accessories

Discovering hidden talents: Uses you never thought of

Loving Your Bike Forever

Making your bike better when it’s not well

Every bike lover needs a toolkit

You’re leaving it where?!

Chapter 2: Bells and Whistles

Putting Bits on Your Bike

Lighting up

Ringing bells

Pumping it up

Carrying things while cycling

Adding children

Electronics on your handlebars

Bar ends, mudguards and mirrors

Fitting and Adjusting a Road Bike

Getting your bike fit at the shop

Adjusting your road bike saddle

Fiddling with your bars

Handlebar grips

Putting Your Foot in It

Pedalling options

These shoes were made for cycling

Bidons, Bottles, Buttons and Bows

Chapter 3: Can You Fix It? Yes, You Can!

Keeping Your Bike Clean

Joining the Chain Gang

Degreasing

Relubing

Fixing a Hole

Finding the puncture

Patching options

Removing and Replacing a Wheel

Front wheel

Back wheel

Changing a Tyre

Spotting a Problem

Spoke too soon

Full (loose) stem ahead

Not true (your wheel, that is)

Time for a tyre transplant

Squeak, rattle and clunk

Chapter 4: Checks and Adjustments

Shock Treatment

Manoeuvring Your Throne: Getting Your Seat Right

Fiddling with Your Derailleurs

Wiggling Your Pads until Your Brakes Work

Checking That You Can Stop

Sounding Off: Ringing Your Bell

Air in Your Tyres Is Like Wind in Your Sails

Nothing to Lose but Your Chain

Chapter 5: Maintaining Yourself

Dealing with an Aching Neck and Back

Tending to Joint Responsibility

Knees

Wrists and hands

Shoulders

Stretching It Out

Rubbing the Right Way: Massage Your Cares Away

Enduring Saddle Sores with a Nasty Rash

Building Fitness

Endurance Training: The Long Steady Distance

Increasing your heart rate

Working out your maximum heart rate

Determining your target heart rate

Determining Your Recovery Needs

Choosing the Right Food: Hardcore Cyclists

Introduction

Annual Australian surveys have shown for years that cycling is one of our most popular physical activities, along with swimming, aerobics and walking. Figures show even more people, proportionally, ride bikes in New Zealand. Bike sales in all forms of cycling have been increasing year by year in both countries, long ago leaving car sales behind.

Governments have recognised the advantages of having more people riding rather than driving, and traffic planners have learnt that after cycling infrastructure appears — such as bike lanes, bike paths and real help for bicycles through junctions — cyclists come pouring onto roads by the thousand. Campaigns and better facilities have seen some commuter cycling corridors increase their use twentyfold over the last 20 years.