Apparently the stars were aligned for me yesterday because my husband and I happened to stumble onto the Lancaster Public Library's annual booksale despite having seen no prior advertisements for the sale. We considered ourselves smiled upon by the gods. And even though fate put us in the path of the sale, I managed to behave myself and only by a handful of items. I found a few rock cds and the humble, yet pictu-rific "Richards' Bicycle Repair Manual". The book is co-written by Richard Ballantine and Richard Grant.
My husband and I love our mountain bikes dearly and my husband has no qualms about jumping right in to work on his bike. He sees it as a learning process. I'm a bit more conservative, I'll wrench on a few obvious pieces and parts, but aside from that, I defer to the professionals... Because of this, I immediately bought the RBRM in hopes to repair future damage to my bike that I'm sure I'll incur with increased biking and with my increased eco-habits.
I was pleasantly surprised at how well organized the manual is. It walks the reader through repairs by starting with simplistic repairs and it moves to advanced repairs as the book moves forward. Toward the end of the book are a couple of very useful tools. 1st are some checklists for riding and maintenance and 2nd is the comical, yet useful "emergency repairs" diagram. Lastly, I particularly appreciated the glossary and the index. These are well organized and super easy to use.
Overall, the book does a fabulous job teaching for visual and kinesthetic learners (like me!) by including multiple pictures on almost every page. As well, all of the pics are in color, which makes the guide very accessible and a great book to simply pick to skim for desired info. I'm very excited about trying out the maintenance and repairs suggested as soon as possible.
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