The Urban Biking Handbook: The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living PDF
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THE URBAN BIKING HANDBOOK The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living CHARLES HAINE DEDICATTION To my parents for getting me a bicycle for Christmas when I was 6—the best Christmas gift ever. To every mechanic and cycling guru who has had the patience to teach me everything I’m lucky enough to have learned. To all the folks at the Bicycle Co-op in Oberlin, Ohio, and the Bicycle Kitchen in Los Angeles, California, who’ve made my life so much richer. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: WHY RIDE BIKES? PART I: THE RIDE 1. Choosing Your Ride How-to: New Bike vs. Used Bike Building a Bike from a Bare Frame 2. City Riding Security Parking The Things They Carry: Choosing a Bag Choosing Your Footwear Fenders Riding in Traffic How-to: Hop a Curb Riding with a Group Getting Doored Scrapes and Crashes 3. Urban Outfitting Bike Clothing Tools Safety 4. Customization Getting in the Saddle How-to: Set Your Seat Height and Angle Handlebars How-to: Hack Your Bars How-to: Change Your Drop Bars for Flat Bars How-to: Citify a Mountain Bike Painting Your Bike Painted and Customized: An Idea Gallery 5. The Car-Free Lifestyle Starting Small: A Car-Free Week How-to: Go on a Bicycle Date Taking a Cycling Vacation PART II: THE BICYCLE 6. Bicycle Anatomy Frame Thread and Thread Direction Cable Actuation Bearings The Locknut Drive Train Braking How-to: Adjust Your Brakes How-to: Get Rid of Brake Squeak Steering Sizing 7. Frames Frame Materials Frame Construction Geometry Suspension Framework: An Idea Gallery 8. Tires, Tubes, and Wheels Tire Components Evaluating Tires Clinchers vs. Tubulars vs. Tubeless Inner Tubes Tire Pressure How-to: Fix a Flat Wheel Components How-to: True a Wheel 9. Bearings and Drive Train Hubs Gear Clusters: Freehub vs. Freewheel How-to: Repack Loose Ball Bearings How-to: Adjust the Cones Headsets and Bottom Brackets Drive Train Chain How-to: Lube Your Chain How-to: Break Your Chain Shifters How-to: Adjust Your Shifters on the Go How-to: Set Up Your Shifters for the First Time 10. Fixed-Gear Fixation Building a Fixie: An Overview The Track Hub How-to: Convert a Geared Bike to a Fixie Fixie Dust PART III: THE COMMUNITY 11. Bicycle Education Space Do-It-Together How-to: Start a Shop Finding a Space Finances Recruiting, Training, and Keeping Volunteers Building a Community How-to: Organize a Group Ride 12. Bike Hack Profiles and Gallery Scraper Bikes Glowing Bike Choppers Lowriders and Tall Bikes Bike Hack Profiles Glossary Recommended Reading Index About the Author and Cophotographer INTRODUCTION: WHY RIDE BIKES? We are currently in the middle of a cycling renaissance. In the last few years the do-it-together (DIT) bicycle community and urban cycling have exploded. All kinds of people are riding their bikes for an increasing number of their everyday tasks.
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