Urban Bikers' Tricks & Tips: Low-Tech & No-Tech Ways to Find, Ride, & Keep a Bicycle

By Dave Glowacz

Book Overview

Filled with practical tips that any adult bike owner can use instantly, this book includes advice on everything from how to handle a sore butt and choose accessories to how to avoid helmet hair and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965172813
• ISBN13: 9780965172813
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Wordspace Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Everything You Need

How to choose, ride, protect, and enjoy your bike for any purpose. It covers all kinds of equipment to help you understand what your options are and how to use them all effectively. Has a nice chapter on effective riding and how to stay safe. For the seasoned biker it provides insights into protecting your bike and riding "sly" for the agressive side of you. A seasoned biker, myself, I enjoyed the little tidbits strewn throughout the entire book. Very conversational and the illustrations are great.

Practical Info for Cyclists by Cyclists

I really enjoyed this book, even tho' it is mostly information that I have learned the HARD way by bike messengering in the last nine years. Practical info about the realities of cycling in the city, which is not always pleasant or pretty. Excellent illustrations. I've already given a couple copies out to friends.

the urban biker's handbook

The book you will not be able to put down once your open it. It will make many more trips off of your bookshelf to your hands, your pannniers, brief case, and to the couch. The author will challenge you, teach you new tricks, and make you ever more anxious to use your bike for commuting and for transportation. Forget the old tired worn out cliches and aphorisms on bike commuting. This guy has caught it all!

No-nonsense, easy-to-read, full-coverage bike owner's manual

This book makes everything you every wanted or needed to know about owning a bicycle easy to understand through its many illustrations. There are many tips and suggestions not found in your typical bike book. It is well worth reading.

An excellent guide to urban biking

It is about time that there is a book available to city bikers. The book really looks at those "interesting" traffic situations that one encounters in the city. All the tricks and tips that Dave shows us are invaluable. From fitting your helmet and dressing for a ride to lubing your gears and chain. One thing, I really liked was the non-violent ways he shows us when dealing with the no so nice people out there. He always encourages us to get back on and ride.It is truly a useful and informative guide to biking in an urban setting.