Fix Your Bike ─ Repairs and Maintenance for Happy Cycling

A stylish, practical guide to keeping you safe on your bike, full of maintenance tips, tricks, and techniques

You may love to cruise the streets and lanes with the wind in your hair, but would you be able to fix your bike if it let you down? Fix Your Bike is a straightforward, stylish. and no-fuss approach to getting you geared up and back on your bike in no time. This visually stunning, clear-cut, hands-on guide to DIY bike maintenance and safety does exactly what it says on the tin. By teaching you the basics in plain terms and straightforward, step-by-step instructions it allows you to just get on with riding your bike. Speedy, easy, and proficient, Fix Your Bike is full of shortcuts, tricks. and techniques that all cyclists should know to help them get back (and remain) on the road. This book will aid and encourage you in all areas of bike maintenance—from puncture repair to gear care, brake-tightening to chain-fixing—this brilliant roadside companion will help you bring out the best in your bike.

Jane Moseley enjoys exploring cities in the saddle and is the author of a number of practical books, includingHow to Satisfy your Women Everytime: The Straight Guy's Guide to Housework and Good Grooming.Jackie Strachan has been cycling since progressing from her first trike via assorted bikes, including a Moulton
Super 4, to her current Brompton and Specialized Crossroads Cruz. She spent 10 years cycling through thick city traffic into Central London from the suburbs and is a veteran urban cyclist, well versed in the dos and don'ts of life in the cycle lane. She is the author of Fix It Good: Car and 50 Games to Play with Your Cat.