Road Bike Maintenance: Repairing and Maintainging the Modern Road Bicycle

by Robert Van der Plas

If you've ever tried taking off a road bike tire, or adjusting its brakes, you'll realize how different road bikes are from mountain bikes. This guidebook delivers simple maintenance procedures to keep your bike in top condition, systematic step-by-step repair instructions with tool lists, and extensive fault-finding techniques for everything that can (and will) go wrong. Each procedure is clearly illustrated in full-color.

127 pages, Paperback

First published November 22, 1996

About the author

Robert (or Rob) Van der Plas is the author of numerous books on cycling, including The Penguin Bicycle Handbook, The Mountain Bike Book, Bicycle Technology, and Bicycle Repair. He lives in San Francisco. He has been called as an expert witness in numerous cases involving bicycle-safety and patent disputes.