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Old March 12th 18, 04:10 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Frank Krygowski[_4_]
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On 3/12/2018 12:55 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote:

Emanuel, with all due respect, have you
considered buying a book?


These are the ones I have acquired or borrowed
from the public library. The road bike books
obviously don't cover the Torpedo rear hub, and
the Swedish books are mechanically at a lower
level than that, the Dutch one maybe covers it
but I don't read the language - it has some
good illos tho so I wouldn't rule it out.
"Effective cycling" I gave up on as it was so
boring to read with very few illustrations and
a tiresome focus on policy/traffic issues which
I can't influence anyway.

@book{complete-road-bike-maintenance,
author = {Guy Andrews},
ISBN = {978 1 4081 7093 9},
publisher = {Bloomsbury},
title = {Complete Road Bike Maintenance},
year = 2013
}

@book{en-cyklo-pedi,
author = {Johan Tell},
ISBN = {978-91-1-307337-8},
publisher = {Nordstedt},
title = {En cyklo pedi},
year = 2016
}

@book{effective-cycling,
author = {John Forester},
ISBN = {978-0-262-51694-5},
publisher = {Cambridge},
title = {Effective Cycling},
year = 2012
}

@book{bike,
author = {Daniel Benson and Richard Moore},
ISBN = 9781781312346,
publisher = {Aurum},
title = {Bike! A Tribute to the World's Greatest Cycling Designers},
year = 2014
}

@book{cykelbok,
author = {Staffan Skott},
ISBN = {91-550-3942-1},
publisher = {Tiden},
title = {Cykelbok},
year = 1994
}

@book{praktisch-fietsboek,
author = {Rob van der Plas},
ISBN = {90 274 9848 2},
publisher = {Spectrum},
title = {Praktisch Fietsboek},
year = 1984
}


I'm not familiar with most of those. Here are books that I have (all in
English) that might help you.

I have two Rob van der Plas books that seem appropriate for you. One is
_Bicycle Technology_ from 1991. Another is _The Bicycle Repair Book_
from 1993. Both are published by Bicycle Books Inc., Mill Valley
California. Both cover lots of basics and seem intended for novices.
Unlike most modern books, these discuss things like coaster brakes, rod
actuated brakes, 3 speed hubs, and more than the usual amount of basic
mechanical practices.

A similar approach is used in any of the various books by Richard
Ballantine. Several of his books (_Richard's Bicycle Book_, _Richard's
21st Century Bicycle Book_ etc.) confine mechanical repairs to just the
last short chapter, but he's also written _Richard's Bicycle Repair
Manual_, which I don't own. I suspect it would be good for you. I've
enjoyed his writing on other aspects of cycling.

_The Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair_ from Park Tools USA by C. Calvin
Jones is good for modern sport bike components - at least, "modern" up
to 2005, which is my edition. It won't be much help for coaster brakes
brakes and utility bikes.

I have a year 2000 edition of Leonard Zinn's _Zinn & the Art of Road
Bike Maintenance_. It seems pretty good.

I have others, even older, but I think those would serve you well. And
as I've mentioned www.abebooks.com is a good and very inexpensive source
of used books. I hope it, or a similar used book source, is available in
your country

Of course, I hope by now you've spent a lot of time at Sheldon Brown's
site, http://www.sheldonbrown.com/ and you've used the Park Tool site's
"Repair Help" section. https://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/

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