Explains how to select a bicycle, how to handle it, and how to win races, tour, and deal with mishaps.

Describes equipment and techniques for beginners and experts

Provides advice on equipment and skills, including tips on how to prevent injury and convert a mountain bike into a road bike

Take your road cycling skills to the next level with the latest techniques, equipment, and skills. This completely revised edition of the popular handbook for everyday road cyclists is a comprehensive guide to road cycling skills and safety from the most trusted name in cycling, Bicycling magazine. Updated to include contemporary expert sources, fresh photography, and cutting-edge information on cycling technology, nutrition and supplementation, training, riding techniques, safety, and performance, this is a book no road cyclist should be without. You'll learn how to ensure your bike is in tip-top shape in 8 easy steps, prevent injury and knee pain, boost your efficiency with smooth pedaling and proper form, brake without wasting speed or wiping out, discover the benefits of riding in a paceline, and master the skills of riding in traffic. Packed with tips from professional cyclists, coaches, and experts, Bicycling Complete Book of Road Cycling Skills is the ultimate guide to riding faster, stronger, longer, and safer.

This document continues a 64-year tradition by listing books for adolescents, arranged by subjects that teenagers have asked about in library visits. The browsing list contains approximately 1,250 books, about 350 of which are new listings, marked for the reader's convenience. Approximately 100 sections contain the entries, grouped into the following broader sections: (1) The Creative Spirit; (2) Science; (3) Here/Now; (4) One World; and (5) Action and Adventure. For each of these sections, a few titles have been annotated in some depth, but most entries provide only a brief note. New in 1993 are sections on "being gay" and the holocaust. New titles on Vietnam and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) are of particular interest. All of the books have been read and selected by librarians in young adult services. (SLD)

The fully revised and updated sixth edition of the best-selling guide to bike maintenance from the world's leading authority on cycling Whether they own the latest model or a classic with thousands of miles on it, beginner and experienced cyclists alike need a guide that will help them get their bikes out of the shop faster and keep them on the road longer. For more than 20 years, The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair has done just that. With troubleshooting sections to quickly identify and correct common problems, 450 photographs and 40 drawings to clarify all the step-by-step directions so even the complete neophyte can get repairs right the first time, and websites and phone numbers of bicycle and parts manufacturers, this is truly the ultimate bicycle repair and maintenance manual. Now better than ever, the newest edition contains the latest information on component kits and carbon fork specifications.

Suggests ways cyclists can improve their performance by focusing on key concepts and fundamentals, off-season training, and coaching.