The Everything Bicycle Book; A Freewheeling Collection of Bike Know-How-From Buying and Maintaining to Exercising and Touring

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Summary: For the person who in newly interested in bicycling
Review: The Everything Bicycle Book is well written and contains lots of useful information on ALL aspects of cycling. Its a good starter book.

The avid cyclist or someone who has been riding and commuting for a while will probably already know most of the information in this book.

The person new to cycling or someone who wants to know more about the ins and outs and the proper ways to use a bicycle and get greater pleasure from it will find the book full of info.

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Summary: A Primer for Non-bikers
Review: This is a well written, general book about everything related to bicycles.
You will find it interesting if you know absolutely nothing about bikes.
Lots of side issue discussions on diet, racing, clothing, nice places to tour and other non-bike topics of interest to a bicycle user.
No specifics about bikes, general discussions of brakes, transmissions, etc.
Very little on maintenance.
The bicycle manufacturers sites will provide more technical information about bikes in general and their products in particular in the form of .pdf user manuals you can download, biking tips, and model specific equipment, including some specific care and maintenance data.
This book will help you decide if you really want to get into biking, and does a good job of just that.