Mastering Mountain Bike Skills


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If you want to ride like a pro, you should learn from a pro! In Mastering Mountain Bike Skills, Third Edition, world-champion racer Brian Lopes and renowned riding coach Lee McCormack share their elite perspectives, real-life race stories, and their own successful techniques to help riders of all styles and levels build confidence and experience the full exhiliration of the sport. Mastering Mountain Bike Skills is the best-selling guide for all mountain biking disciplines, including enduro, pump track racing, dual slalom, downhill, cross-country, fatbiking, and 24-hour races. It absolutely captures the sport and offers everything you need to maximize performance and excitement on the trail. Learn how to select the proper bike and customize it for your unique riding style. Develop a solid skills base so you can execute techniques with more power and precision. Master the essential techniques to help you carve every corner, nail every jump, and conquer every obstacle in your path. Last, but not least, prepare yourself to handle every type of weather and trail condition that the mountain biking world throws at you. Whether you’re a recreational rider looking to rock the trails with friends, are a seasoned enthusiast, or are aspiring to be a top pro, Mastering Mountain Bike Skills will improve your ride and dust the competition. Don't just survive the trail—own the trail, and enjoy the thrill of doing it.




Complete Mountain Bike Maintenance


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Complete Mountain Bike Maintenance provides mountain bike enthusiasts with step-by-step guidance to maintaining and repairing their bikes, combining an easy-to-use format and design with high quality photographs of the latest equipment.The book guides the reader through every problem that may occur on a mountain bike and shows how to repair it. It also give tips on how to spot the early warning signs of trouble so that you can fix the problem before it you need to get involved with costly replacements. It is the perfect reference manual to have in your shed or workshop and also contain lots of tips on how to conduct quick repairs if you get into trouble while out on the road.




Let's Mountain Bike!


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Everything you need to be your best on the trails. This book contains extensive advice and tips that cover all aspects of mountain biking. The information is presented with clear and understandable language and visuals, making it easy to digest and apply. Riders of all ages, from the complete beginner to the more advanced will benefit from the information revealed in Let's Mountain Bike! It's an indispensable guide for those looking to hit the trails and become their best. Choosing the right bike Hitting the trails fully prepared Making the climbs easier Braking for efficiency, speed, and safety Negotiating obstacles Mental toughness, focus, and state of mind Avoiding accidents Proper bike care Much more Thousands of trails are waiting... so Let's Mountain Bike! Visit letsmountainbike.com to see more from this author.




Choppers


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Chopper owners take pride in turning their motorcycles into one-of-a-kind machines. To personalize their rides, they remove unnecessary parts from the motorcycles and add everything from sissy-bars and ape-hanger handlebars to chrome parts and crazy paint jobs. In the end chopper owners create some of the coolest bikes on the planet. In this book you will discover where the term chopper comes from, what kinds of motorcycles make the best choppers, the difference between a chopper and a bobber, and where you can go to see classic and modern choppers.




Custom Harley


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Customizing the king of bikes is a multimillion dollar industry, with results that are absolutely astounding! Here's the lowdown on all the specialized techniques, from basic structure to painting, powder coating, special finishes to custom accessories, parts and rebuilding. Included are famous and special customizations, all in full-color photos.







Mountain Biking


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Provides basic information about mountain biking, including its history, equipment needed, technique, and famous riders.







Mountain Bike Maintenance


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The bicycle is an amazing contraption. It costs nothing to power, is good for your body and does no harm to the environment. Most importantly however, it can give you the freedom to travel wherever you would like to go. The bicycle has been constantly evolving throughout its history. It has become more efficient, lighter, and stronger; in addition becoming more suited to a wide range of terrain and more accessible to a broad range of users. This book looks briefly at the history of the mountain bike and basic cycling techniques before taking a detailed and in-depth look into how to service, maintain and repair the modern mountain bike, with step-by-step tutorials throughout. Contents include: Tools and equipment; Wheels and tyres; Handlebars, pedals, saddles and headsets; Drivetrain and gears; Brakes and suspension. This detailed and in-depth guide will be of great interest to all offroad cyclists and is fully illustrated with 480 instructional colour photographs.




Custom Harley


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This guide to Harleys provides a complete overview of the history of the Harley form the first blueprint to the evolution engine and beyond.