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Cycle Maintainance, Richard Hallett (2002)
Hamlyn 0 600 60676 7 112pp £9.99
A nicely illustrated and easy-to-follow entry-level manual on bicycle
maintenance
 
Producing a manual of this kind is a balancing act. What level of knowledge
to assume? How esoteric a level of equipment is it necessary to cover?
How much detail to go in to? On all of these Hallett seems to have got
it about right.
He covers modern road and mountain bikes in sufficient detail to make
most jobs reasonably straightforward. And the spread of topics is impressive.
Hub gears and brakes feature, as well as disk brakes and full suspension.
Of course, it won’t stop you facing apparently intractable problems
on a bikes that are past the first flushes, have not been well-maintained
and do not quite correspond to the photos in this book. But then, noting
will. There is, however, here, enough to get you going on cycle mechanics
from the basic to the pretty complex.
The photography and its reproduction is a really strong feature of this
book. It looks attractive, uses masses of colour and allows you to see
components in sufficient clarity and detail to get a clear understanding
of what it is on which you will be working.
Araf December 2008
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