Cyclist's Bible (Outdoor Bible)

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Summary: Poor Safe-Cycling Tips
Review: I flipped through this book, but read their advice on traffic cycling with care. It's just plain shoddy, and could get someone killed. For example, theygive an absurdly complicated scheme for making left turns on multiple lane roads. I could hardly make heads or tails of it, and I've been commuting, racing, and riding recreationally for 15 years! The best I could figure, they have left turning cyclists turning across the path of straight through motorists, which is both illegal and dangerous, instead of properly merging over to the left turn lane.

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Summary: A Great Reference & Guide for All Types of Biking
Review: This is the best, highly detailed know-how, tell-all book about the bicycle, it's history, it's structure, the different types/styles of bikes, when/how to use them for specific purposes, and everything else you could possibly associate with the bicycle. This book greatly helped me achieve my need to have a deeper and broader knowledge of the bike and its functions and purposes and has also brought about new questions I never would have thought of prior to reading this book. I would highly recommend this bike to the beginner and regular biker because of the precise, detailed, and much needed information throughout the book. I would also recommend this book to anyone interested in bike touring, daily and/or overnight bike trips, mountain biking, racing, and even bike riding throughout the neighborhood once in a while. This book covers all of those topics so comprehensively that any reader, experienced or not, would feel extremely comfortable going out on one of those adventures for the first time.

This book is excellent with meticulous instructions on repairing and maintaining your bicycle and has pictures associated with most of the steps or at least an overview of the area being worked on so to minimize any confusion.

Something I really enjoyed about this book was that the reader was shown and instructed how to find a suitable bike for themselves, depending on what they are specifically going to be doing with the bike (touring, racing, etc.), and based on their body frame and build. I didn't really have any idea how to fit myself for a bike, but now I will be able to do so without hesitation.

The only thing that I disliked about The Cyclist's Bible, was that the author was using many biking terms that I, as most beginners and novices to this sport, wasn't familiar with. They assured the reader that all the terms would be defined later in the book, but I was uncomfortable about reading half of the book without knowing what the authors were referring to half the time. So once I had read the definitions of the terms, I then felt I needed to go back to the parts of the book I didn't understand because of this. Other that than, I would definitely have to say overall, this is an excellent book about biking and all of the bike's parts.