Review of The Haynes Bicycle Book: The Haynes Repair Manual for Maintaining and Repairing Your Bike (Haynes Automotive Repair Manual Series)

The Haynes Bicycle Book: The Haynes Repair Manual for Maintaining and Repairing Your Bike (Haynes Automotive Repair Manual Series)
Average Rating: 4.5 Total Reviews: 14
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Haynes bicycle maintenance manual

On: 2008-05-27

This manual was reccommended by many biking enthusists. I find it very easy to read and use. It is out of publication however Amazon delivered it promptly and the price was great. Good riding!

The only repair guide you need.

On: 2008-02-10

I have the Big Blue Book and Chris Sidwells book and in my opinion this is the best. With all the pictures and step by step instructions,it is easy to understand. Buy it. You will be glad you did!

A good place to start

On: 2007-01-10

This is a great book for beginners and there are plenty of photos to assist the reader together with step by step instructions. On the downside, as noted in other reviews, the technologies covered seem a little bit dated and seem to have a bias toward the 1990s or earlier, for example my headset/stem are not covered. Some of the page layouts are a bit jumbled in places, but on the whole it is easy follow.

Pretty good book overall on medium-level mechanics

by: porkch0p On: 2006-08-26

Clearly, HAYNES having published 1,000s of home-repair
automobile mechanics on 100s of different model cars,
it was time for them to make some extra cash, and do a book
on bicycle repair, too! Having seen the automobile books, they
do come in handy for cars built back in the 80s and some in
the 90s, but increasingly, home repair has become next to
impossible as cars become electronic gadgets and computerized
in all aspects, and Im not referring to remote car starters,
or even GPS systems or boomerang anti-theft tracking devices,
either.

Specifically, in regards to this book, it has a lot of glossy
color photos, but only average desktop publishing skills in
arranging text, and photos. Its practical, for sure, and is not
introductory, either.

Part of this book, reminds me of PARK TOOLs school manual they
give out after their quick weekend-course on bicycle
maintenance, in the sense that dozens of different specialized
tools are seen in the pictures, that the home mechanic will not
have, obviously, and considering theyre specialized tools, with
low sales volume, are probably very costly to acquire from PARK
themselves, or through your LBS.

The final conclusion on this book, is that its definitely worth
the price, if youre interested at all, in maintaining a bike,
doing work on it, and repairs. Im not referring to high-end
bikes, MTBs or road costing $1000s of dollars, but your low-
end, mass-marketed and sold bikes costing $200, for example.

It has walk-thrus, color pictures, diagrams, explanations,
lists tools you need to do the work to repair so-and-so
situation, is sturdy, and almost 200 pages.

great for beginners

On: 2006-01-30

This is a great bike maintenace book for beginners. The photos and directions are very easy to follow. The techniques they describe are not fancy and do not require expensive tools. For more complex jobs, they tell you to visit your bike shop, which is probably what a beginner should be doing. Intermediate-to-advanced home mechanics should look at the Zinn or Park books instead.

The Best Bicycle Repair Book Out There

On: 2004-10-12

This book is wonderful. There isnt really any repair that you cant fix as long as you have the right tools AND THIS BOOK!

Exceptional

On: 2004-04-24

Fantastic manual jam packed with step-by-step colour photographs. The layout is very well thought out and logical that it makes finding what you need as simple as possible. I highly recommend this book for anyone who owns and cares about maintaining their bike in top condition.

Finally, an up-to-date maintenance bicycle book.

On: 2004-02-28

This bicycle maintenance book is one of the best book there is out there as for quality of pictures, angle of pictures, technics, hints, trick of the trade, etc. The book covers most bikes. It contains coloured pictures, notes and tips on almost every page and is very well explained.

Most tools showed in the book can be bought at your local bike shop or at any Mountain Equipment Coop (near you or online at www.mec.ca)

I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to learn more about bike maintenance. You wont regret your purchase.

Signed: a bike mechanic

Detailed and Easy to Follow

On: 2002-09-27

This is a great instructional book for bicycle maintenance. It is written so that a novice in bicycle repair can understand the procedures. There is a chapter on how to disassemble and repair each aspect of your bicycle in detailed form. The book covers all different types of components on both road and mountain bikes. The instructions are easy to follow. The pictures are clear, and one can easily see what the authors are talking about. As a necessity, specialized bicycle tools are required to do many of the more complex manipulations. Each section has a troubleshooting guide, and chapter three is nothing but a troubleshooting guide. This book makes a great reference manual and will enhance ones basic knowledge of bicycle mechanics.

You can hang around a bike shop, watching techs, or...

On: 2001-02-19

You can learn a lot watching bike mechanics "operate". You can learn what tools to use, and how to apply them, and what pieces fall out when you take something apart. But who has time to hang around a bike shop? Wouldnt it be nice to have a book that shows you what to expect, and how to deal with it? This is it, in Technicolor glory.

Every page of this book has clear color photos showing exactly what to do. The book is broken down by chapters for the various mechanical systems of the bicycle. Each chapter goes through the various technologies in use. (Example: five kinds of brakes.) Each one is ripped apart and put back together with you. Each chapter has a section on what tools you will need (and recommendations on saving money).

Haynes is famous for automobile and motorcycle repair books, and this is even better than those: All photos are in color, the steps are broken down and illustrated clearly, with the use of tools shown explicitly. (This is not always the case with the automotive books, which assume a certain proficiency with mechanics tools.) Very nicely done. I hope they update it periodically as bicycle technology evolves.

You can hang around a bike shop, watching techs, or...

On: 2001-02-18

You can learn a lot watching bike mechanics "operate". You can learn what tools to use, and how to apply them, and what pieces fall out when you take something apart. But who has time to hang around a bike shop? Wouldnt it be nice to have a book that shows you what to expect, and how to deal with it? This is it, in Technicolor glory.

The Haynes Bike Repair Manual

by: Anonymous On: 2000-11-16

I have a 1999 mountain bike that I love and want to maintain. This book is perfect! All of the problems that ive encountered have been addressed in the book, even though theres little information about "Y" frame suspensions. Each chapter on repair has a quick reference diagnosis chart. Before buying, I compared this book to the other top ranked repair books at the store, and this one was much easier to understand and use because of the clear way its written and illustrated. If you dont already know much about bike repair, but love your bike, this book is for you!

The Haynes Bicycle Book

by: Anonymous On: 2000-04-08

This book is a very good book for the hands on first time at home bike mechanic. The color pictures really make a difference in understanding the individual parts of each system. The explainations of how the each system works and how to maintain and repair is clear and consice. I would recommend this book to anybody.

Haynes Repair Manual - Reality Check

by: Anonymous On: 2000-03-25

This informative manual is geared towards early 90s bike technology and quite frankly misses the majority of todays advanced components. However, the publication is well written, easy to understand, and properly illistrated. I would recommend this Haynes Repair Manual for beginner bike mechanics working with yesterdays technology.

Quintessential Bike Maintenance Manual

On: 1998-08-23

The best book for bike repair and maintenace Ive ever had. Good, clear text and photos made it easy for me to understnad what to do and why. It enabled me to completely overhaul my bike last winter, and now it rides great! Dont leave home without this one. Its the bikers best tool.