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Summary: A visual person's guide to mountain biking
Review: If you're like me, listening to someone explain the proper way to do a wheelie hop or shift your weight during hill climbing, is about as exciting as watching old people eat, and about as gratifying. If you need something visual to clue you in, then check out Mr. Nealy's fine illustrations. Once you finish laughing your guts out, you'll realize that this guy really knows what he's talking about when it comes to biking. Studying this book can shave years off your learning curve. I absolutely HATE the fact that what I had to learn through 8 years of experimentation and pain, my buddies picked up in 3 months by pouring over this book on every trip to the john. Buy it. Read it. Use it. Then ride like a bat outta hell.
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Summary: extremely helpful book for beginners
Review: Loved the book. From the 1st time I picked it up I learned skills that I could master within a very short time. Now - one season later, I'm discovering that by rereading the same information, I am refining my skills and learning even more. A great book for everyone. I dare not put it down or my partner, a much more advanced rider than I , picks up the book and is lost in it. As a female rider just past 50, it's great to find a book that is geared to all ages and genders and will help me improve. This book's focus is on success, not failure - a great attitude. Everyone will learn something from it. Thank you William Nealy!
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Summary: eBook edition looks horrible
Review: The book itself is excellent, just look the other reviews to find this out. So I just want to point out one thing: Do not buy this book as an eBook! The book has been written by hand and contains a lot of cartoon drawings. Unfortunately adobe reader uses horrible resolution for the graphics (and thus in this case for the texts also). It just looks like the whole book had been faxed to you.
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Summary: The best "how to" book for all ages, skill levels.
Review: This amusing paperback is chock full of everything anyone could want to learn about mountain biking skills. As my husband, who is a long-time motorcyclist and mountain biker, said, "This book contains all the tricks and skills it took me twenty-five years to figure out on my own!" The cartoon style and the writing style are clear, concise and extremely entertaining as well as being very educational. Through the wonderfully clear step-by step cartoons, even someone who cannot read english can learn biking skills from this book.
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Summary: The best "how to" book for all ages, skill levels.
Review: This amusing paperback is chock full of everything anyone could want to learn about mountain biking skills. As my husband, who is a long-time motorcyclist and mountain biker, said, "This book contains all the tricks and skills it took me twenty-five years to figure out on my own!" The cartoon style and the writing style are clear, concise and extremely entertaining as well as being very educational. Through the wonderfully clear step-by step cartoons, even someone who cannot read english can learn biking skills from this book.
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Summary: Great book for beginners
Review: This book does a fantastic job conveying important concepts of mountainbiking. From fundamentals like how to get on the bicycle to advanced tricks like a rear-wheelie sliding turn to trail maintanence, William Nealy takes a balanced informed understanding of the sport and lays it out it humerous easy to understand illustrations. His wisdom imporved my skills, his wit nearly burst my gut!
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Summary: The best how-to mountain bike book ever!
Review: This book does a fantastic job conveying important concepts of mountainbiking. From fundamentals like how to get on the bicycle to advanced tricks like a rear-wheelie sliding turn to trail maintanence, William Nealy takes a balanced informed understanding of the sport and lays it out it humerous easy to understand illustrations. His wisdom imporved my skills, his wit nearly burst my gut!
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Summary: This book is a great gift
Review: This book was given to me as a gift after I had been riding about a year. I read it from cover to cover with great interest. It has helped me improve my riding skills greatly. I can now ride over logs, do the bunny hop, climb rock steps, and ride stuff that I would have walked a year ago. Now I am re-reading it again and ordering some copies for friends who will also benefit from it. Try it as a gift for a beginner or intermediate rider.
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Summary: A Look into the Past
Review: This is a well written, illustrated, and entertaining book on mountain biking skills, but it suffers from being quite outdated. Anyone who is more interested in contemporary mountain biking than ancient history would be better served with a more up to date tome that includes techniques more applicable to today's modern mountain bike technology. For example, toe clip pedals are not the cutting edge! Check out the Ned Overend book, Mountain Bike Like a Champion. There is also a video, Performance Mountain Biking that may be of interest.
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Summary: A Look into the Past
Review: This is a well written, illustrated, and entertaining book on mountain biking skills, but it suffers from being quite outdated. Anyone who is more interested in contemporary mountain biking than ancient history would be better served with a more up to date tome that includes techniques more applicable to today's modern mountain bike technology. For example, toe clip pedals are not the cutting edge! Check out the Ned Overend book, Mountain Bike Like a Champion. There is also a video, Performance Mountain Biking that may be of interest.
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