Custom Bicycles

Custom Bicycles
Author: Christine Elliott
Publisher: Images Publishing
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2009
Genre: Design
ISBN: 186470313X

A unique study of the names and bikes of the world's most famous, innovative and legendary makers of contemporary bespoke bicycles.

The Custom Road Bike

The Custom Road Bike
Author: Guy Andrews
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-03-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781856698139

This lavishly illustrated book reveals the state of the art of the custom racing bicycle. Chapter by chapter, the book builds up the complete guide to specifying and buying your dream bike. Each chapter covers a particular part of the bike, from frames to forks, headsets, wheels, tyres, hubs, gear components, chains, brakes, saddles, handlebars, pedals and accessories. There are also interviews with and opinions from the top designers and manufacturers. There is advice on getting your own frame custom measured and made and which bike is suited to particular riders and different disciplines. In addition, professional mechanics show the details, special tools and secrets behind making racing bikes run like clockwork. The Custom Road Bike is the deluxe guide to creating the ideal road bike, whether it's for weekend racing or a stage of the Tour de France.

Racing Bicycles

Racing Bicycles
Author: David Rapley
Publisher: Images Publishing
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2012
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1864704829

Features racing bikes from the last 100 years. Spectacular photography of racing machines from the Tour de France, the Olympics and World Championships, as well as bikes for everyday use. This breathtaking new Compilations gathers a hand-picked selection of bicycles from Europe and Australia, and documents developments in technology and style over the past century. Racing bikes integrate form and function and the results are often surprisingly elegant, as well as practical, whether for cycling in competition or for pleasure. The racing bikes contained in this book range from unused models to well-ridden but lovingly restored machines from early-20thcentury models featuring wooden wheel rims, to the latest in carbon-fibre and titanium technology.

Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance

Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance
Author: Lennard Zinn
Publisher: VeloPress
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2010
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781934030592

Lennard Zinn's expert advice makes quick work of mountain bike repair. Newcomers and experienced mechanics alike will benefit from the hundreds of illustrations, the exploded views of how components go together, and Zinn's practical, time-saving tips.

Custom Motor Cycles

Custom Motor Cycles
Author: Claudia Matheja
Publisher: Images Publishing
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2009
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1864703555

Featuring the photographs of acclaimed Barcelona-based photographer Miquel Tres, Custom Motorcycles presents a fascinating visual display of outrageous custom-built motorcycles and their colourful owners. Through his extraordinary photographs, Miquel has

Atomic Zombie's Bicycle Builder's Bonanza

Atomic Zombie's Bicycle Builder's Bonanza
Author: Brad Graham
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education TAB
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2003-11-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780071422673

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. ATOMIC ZOMBIE'S BICYCLE BUILDER'S BONANZA SUPERBIKES (FOR STINGY BUDGETS) For bicycle lovers, tinkerers, and inventors, this dream resource offers hours of fun, creativity, and adventure. If you have standard workshop tools, Atomic Zombie's Bicycle Builder's Bonanza provides everything else you need to create cool custom bicycles on a shoestring budget. You’ll find exciting plans for choppers, low racers, tall bikes, recumbents, tandems, and others that defy description. You'll learn how easy -- and cheap -- it can be to build machines with names like Marauder, Sky Cycle, and Hammerhead -- to construct bicycles whose profiles will make you gasp -- and to make your own recumbent bike that can speed along at 80 kph on the flats. This book shows you how to build them all, complete with photos and detailed instructions! Written by long-time bike hobbyist and inventor Brad Graham, founder and host of the atomiczombie.com bicycle builder's Web site, and creator of the world's tallest bike, this value-packed, heavily illustrated manual offers an exciting range of resources from complete custom bike plans to details on working with tools and customizing bikes you already own.

René Herse

René Herse
Author: Jan T. Heine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2012
Genre: Bicycle industry
ISBN: 9789765460236

The Epiplectic Bicycle

The Epiplectic Bicycle
Author: Edward Gorey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780151003143

The story of an intrepid voyage of epic proportion with a hero unequaled in the annals of literature. Gorey is "a man of enormous erudition . . . an artist and writer of genius" ("The New Yorker").

Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair

Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair
Author: C. Calvin Jones
Publisher: Park Tool
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2019-04-24
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

The BBB-4 Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair by Calvin Jones is packed with easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures, color photos and repair tips for keeping almost any road or off-road bike running smoothly and trouble-free. Whether it's repairing a flat tire, adjusting brakes and shifting systems, truing wheels, or maintaining hub, headset and bottom bracket bearing systems, the BBB-4 has you covered. Thoroughly researched and revised, the 4th edition of the Big Blue Book contains updated photos, torque specifications and troubleshooting tables, along with new content on wheel building, electronic shifting, 12-speed and 1X drivetrains, tubeless tires, disc brakes, headset and bottom bracket standards, and more. Truly an indispensable tool and reference source for both the novice and advanced bicycle mechanic.