Bicycle!: A Repair & Maintenance Manifesto

Bicycle!: A Repair & Maintenance Manifesto
by Sam Tracy

Bicycle!: A Repair & Maintenance Manifesto
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Author: Sam Tracy
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-01
ISBN: 1933108010
Number of pages: 300
Publisher: Speck Press

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Book Review: Enjoyable to read, in no sense complete
Summary: 3 Stars

This book has encouraged me to become a stronger maintainer and repairer of my bicycle, and I have to give it props for that. The reading style is also so enjoyable as to make me read on things, such as fixed wheel bikes, in which I have no present interest. Since I tend towards his leanings politically and whatnot, this is fun; many would merely find it annoying.

The book loses one star for being pretty much a ramble. I found something useful in every section I've consulted on a job so far (I'm overhauling my ride) but I have always had to also consult other sources. It loses another star because the pictures are small and next to useless.

This book is probably most useful for the knowledgable mechanic who may not know about such esoterica as 'soup spoons' and 'spare fingers' and how to cheaply keep the grip shifters from coming off your crap rental bikes -- alternately to convince the complete beginner that bike mechanistry is an art anyone can practice. It's a fun read if you like zines, and it may well empower you to care for your own ride in a way that a dull, by-the-numbers book wont...but get one of those too, because you'll need it.

Summary of Bicycle!: A Repair & Maintenance Manifesto

At their finest hours, bikes exist on a level above mere machines, and there?s no reason the joy should end when the ride is over.

Bicycle!, written by a working bicycle mechanic, covers -everything you need to know to feed and care for your own swank, two-wheeled ride. This book cuts through the obtuse techno-speak and delivers maintenance clarity with a touch of humor and radicalism while categorically denying mechanics? supposed dreariness. Bicycle! is about encouraging society to learn for themselves how to make their bikes work, not because they have to, but because they want to.

With detailed descriptions of all maintenance tasks and repair situations, clearly illustrated with photographs and drawings, this guide will serve the need for a serious rider?s manual. Professional bicycle workers?messengers, mechanics, pedicab drivers?as well as bicycle commuters have been waiting for this book.

Sam Tracy writes about bikes from a practiced Midwestern perspective. He began producing the ?zine Biker Pride at some point in the early 1990s, after being fired from the college newspaper for violating its objectivity rules, and this project was later broadened just enough to become the urban cycling-focused Multiplier ?zine. Having biked through the last 15 snowy winters in Minneapolis, including five as a messenger, Tracy is currently enjoying the warmer weather while wrenching on bikes in San Francisco.

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