This contains professional tips on handling all terrains, regardless of age, gender, or experience. Full-colour photos show the most radical moves and most awesome terrains, while advice covers all the accessories and clothing necessary for taking extended mountain tours. Special instructions on shifting gears, steering and braking in mountain regions, as well as handling the bike in open terrain, plus maintenance schedules, basic repair, gear charts and a trouble-shooting appendix are included.

Mountain bike handbook

Sports & Outdoors

Rob Van Der Plas

Individual Sports

Sterling Publ. Co

A complete maintenance manual for the bike owner, with numerous hints, tips and techniques for a smooth running, trouble free machine.

The Bicycle Repair Book

Bicycle Books

When Rob van der Plas wrote The Mountain Bike Book in the early 1980s, he essentially wrote the mountain biker's bible. It has remained the finest book on this fastest-growing segment of bicycling. This book also explains the drive train, brakes, cranks and more especially for those wanting to learn to work on pre-1988 mountain bikes, and includes clear diagrams.

The Mountain Bike Book

Bicycle Books, Inc.

A comprehensive guide to bicycle touring includes information on bike handling and safe riding techniques, advice on pre-trip planning, a section on maintenance, and more. Original.

The Bicycle Touring Manual: Using the Bicycle for Touring and Camping

Taking the reader through bicycle repairs in easy-to-follow stages, this book offers advice on keeping a bicycle in full working order, saving money in repair costs, and maintaining safety on the road.

Cycle Repair : Step by Step

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

A C Black Publishers Ltd