6 of 6 customers found this review helpful.
If you learn best looking at photographs, this is the right book for you. If photos are too busy get the Zinn book as he uses line drawings to limit the scope of the illustration.
Either way, Calvin starts this book with one of the best get your feet wet chapters I have ever seen. Fasteners (bolts et al) and torque, how to tell left hand threads from right, how to get good mechanical advantage using tools and more. All good basic stuff.
Beyond that each chapter concentrates on one aspect starting chapter 2 with tires and tubes covering ever aspect from simple flat to mounting tubulars and getting that glue layer just right.
I knocked off one star because this, like most books of it's kind, assumes that for every procedure all goes exactly as planned and while this is usually true it would be nice to have a plan B included for when things do go wrong. Maybe that's an untapped market, the Plan B mechanics guide.
On the other hand Calvin does include side by side photos of good parts and worn parts needing to be replaced so you know what to look for, most other books don't. That's probably worth the price right there.
BTW I own both books, Zinn and BBB, but this is the one I go for first.
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