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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780960723669
ISBN: 0960723668
Label: Avocet
Manufacturer: Avocet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 150
Publication Date: 1993-06
Publisher: Avocet
Studio: Avocet |
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Summary: Essential for every home bicycle mechanic.
Comment: 'The Bicycle Wheel' by: Jobst Brandt is a must have for every home bicycle mechanic.
It explains in simple terms the theory of the spoked wheel and how to build, maintain and repair them. It contains many pages of diagrams and graphs for reference and a glossary of terms.
If you are interested in building your first wheel set, this book is a MUST!
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Summary: The best
Comment: This is the 4 wheelbuilding book I have read. And simply the best. A must for a Wheelbuilder.
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Summary: The authoritative work on bicycle wheels
Comment: Despite Jobst Brandt's engineering background, the book is written in a pleasent, easy to understand, straight forward style. The illustrations are plentiful and beautyfull. Layout, illustrations, typography, subject matter and writing style are matching each other very well.
This book is not only about building bicycle wheels, but also about understanding how the wheel works, and why some wheel designs are better than others. Jobst Brandt has performed a lot of experiments and therefore dispels a lot of myths based on research.
The book is too terse in my opinion, regarding spoke length calculation and hub measurements. It is not that the information isn't there, but complete beginners, who perhaps aren't using math equations very often, must find it intimidating.
In that regards, Roger Musson's ebook "Wheel Building" is much more practical and easy to understand.
But Jobst Brandt's book is still better than any other source on wheelbuilding I know of.
Finally, the most important myth Jobst Brandt dispels is that you have to some kind of special talent to build wheels. Jobst Brandt demonstrates that wheelbuilding can be easy and that everyone can do it with good results. So go get a truing stand and a spoke key and start to build your own wheels.
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Summary: No idea how to rebuild your Bikes wheel, this book will help
Comment: Having taken apart my mountain bikes wheel thinking it would be easy to fix, clean, and put back together, I found it an impossible task. This book solved that problem almost instantly, two attempts and the wheel has been rebuilt and it's working perfectly. That said, if you only need like I did to build/repair a wheel, thats only one chapter. The amount of technical detail contained is way over the top, and probably unneccessary for most people, not to mention the pages at the back of pure numbers, which I readily admit to having no clue what they relate to.
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Summary: Was great in 1993!
Comment: I've had this book for well over a decade. Way back in the early ninties it was a great book. However, things move along and even if one does not like nor agree with the current deep dishes and low spoke counts the fact is that the upper end of the market has gone this way. And the low end of the market will seek to follow, abliet with many many more wheel failures than the high end. So what is my complaint? This is a book for the purist whom wants to put a wheel together from first principles and have a deep understanding of the what they are ridding on. While I commend those that wish to go that way and am myself not an advocate of counts below twenty-eight and deep dishes, the bicycle wheel is evovleing (or is it devolving?) and as such it is comon to buy paired and completed wheelsets. So even if these new wheels have quite a finite life span when compared to the "ultimate bicycle wheel" they are still "bicycle wheels" all the same. Thus in 2007 the "Bicycle Wheel" should cover the gamut of what is available and how to deal with the new (but perhaps "silly").
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