A pocket-sized spin-off to the popular Bicycle! Maintenance Manifesto book we already carry. This short guide contains only the most essential road-side maintenance bits. This of course is so you can carry it around with you while you're biking to and fro! Includes fixing a flat of course, removing a cassette, dérailleur adjustment, brake adjustment...really all the stuff that you'll need whether you're hauling butt across a whole country, or just jaunting to the store. The acknowledgments also reveal that the author likes the Quincy Punks and Agent Orange. Cool.

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

Bicycle!, reprinting and encompassing his previous book "How to Rock and Roll", written by a working bicycle mechanic, covers everything you need to know to feed and care for your ride. This book cuts through the obtuse techno-speak and delivers maintenance clarity with a touch of humor and radicalism, while categorically denying mechanistry’s 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, pedi-cab 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 nineties, 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 many snowy winters in Minneapolis, including five as a messenger, Sam is currently living on the east coast.

This is exactly what the name implies. A bicycle repair manual for people who commute on their bikes. I've been waiting for a resource like this for years. It takes you step by step through every process of bicycle maintenance with pictures too! Includes stuff on frames, wheels, brakes, drivetrains, overhauls, safety checks, accesories, and more. This is thorough and bound to teach something to the most educated cyclist.