Bikes & Biking

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Biking Pre-Ride Checklist - Tools/Pre-Ride Safety Check: It is important to check your bike over before your next ride. You can prevent an accident or a long walk home if you just take a few minutes and follow these items. See also: Mountain Bike Adventurer's Checklist and Cycling Adventurer's Checklist

"Improvised Emergency Bicycle Repairs" Step by step instructions with graphics, from Learn2.com.

"The WWW Online Bicycle Repair Manual" Excellent resource for bike repairs includes manual chapters: Wheel Repairs; Shock Repairs; Brake Repairs; Headset, Shifter, etc.; Drive Train, and ; Misc. Repairs

Bicycle Repair, Bike Repair, Bicycle Tune-Up Guide Complete, Illustrated Online Bicycle Repair and Maintenance guide for road bikes, mountain bikes, BMX bikes , general bicycles, and even for fixing recumbents!

Bicycle Maintenance Guide and Riding Tips This little manual is intended as a summary of what I have learned over the years. I am not a professional mechanic. All of what I say here is the result of personal experience and opinion and may in places flatly contradict professional techniques, but it has served me well.

Tool Tips for Bicycle Maintenance and Repair While some of this material is rather dated, much of it isn't. Since some of these articles deal with topics that are not covered in such depth elsewhere in this site, I'm putting them online.

Bicycles FAQ Index

A Quick History of Bicycles In 1817 Baron von Drais invented a walking machine that would help him get around the royal gardens faster: two same-size in-line wheels, the front one steerable, mounted in a frame which you straddled.

Unresearched links:

About.com How to fix flats and repair just about everything!
About.com, Maintenance Part 1, The Wheels
About.com, Maintenace Part 2, The Drive Train
Ask the mechanic (Bikexchange)
Bicycling Magazine Bike Maintenance
Bike Doctor (MTBinfo)
Bike maintenance guide and riding tips
Bike Maintenance guide and riding tips
Bike Website
Bloom Bike Shop Repair & maintenance online
Break It, Fix It, Ride It, Interactive CD-ROM
Cybercycle repair shop
Dan's mountain bike page
Field repairs (Adventure Sports)
Gary's Workshop
How to fix a flat (Ken Kifer)
Jeff Napier's Maintenance page
Jim Langley Wrench
Ken Kifer's Repair page
Online Road Show
R. Ralston's Bike Maintenance
Sage mechanical advice
Sheldon Brown's outstanding online guide
Spoke and Wheel Wheel building info.
Trailmonger maintenance tips
Trailside repairs
Utah Mountain Biking Fix-it page
World Guide Maintenance & Repair Guide
WWW Bike Repair

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