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There are 14 great reasons to have a home bike
workshop
and master mechanic
Jim Langley covers them
all as he arrives at this bottom line:
"Perhaps the best reason—and plenty of
cyclists who have
shops have told me this—is that working in and designing, building
and tweaking your home bicycle workshop can be every bit as satisfying as
riding the bicycles you service there."
Jim's
love of working on bikes has spurred him to write Your Home Bicycle
Workshop.
This eBook is unique in cycling, detailing exactly how to create
a pro-quality repair & maintenance area in your home, garage or other
suitable location (see
contents).
When there's a home workshop trick only an expert would know,
rest assured that you'll find it in this eBook.
Your Home Bicycle Workshop isn't about fixing bikes—very good
repair guides already exist and
Jim's website also
describes various procedures. Instead it goes into great detail about what it takes in tools,
equipment and
workspace design to handle any mechanical job in efficient, productive,
comfortable surroundings.
With Jim Langley's guidance it's easy to create a home bike
workshop you'll love
spending time in.
And this eBook goes a giant step farther by showing
you—not just telling you—about the shop setup and bike tools Jim
recommends. It contains an amazing 201
color photos and illustrations.
Says Jim: "I've tried hard to give
you information you can't find anywhere else. So the TOOL LIST is more extensive
than others and provides links to how to use the tools. There's also a helpful
list of SMALL PARTS you need in a home workshop. That's a hard list to find
too."
For those who want to economize or prefer to make
their own equipment, Jim provides tips on constructing different types of repair
stands at a cost between $5 and $60 (see his instructions for the "Home
Depot" stand that's easy to make). Also explained are two low-cost ways to make
a truing stand.
A thoroughly detailed index makes this eBook handy if you print it and
don't have access to the computerized search function. When you're reading the
eBook on your computer, the index is linked to the contents, giving you another
way to find specific information you want and instantly click to it.
In fact, Your Home Bicycle
Workshop works like a website.
It's the most technically advanced eBook we've seen for cyclists.
Check
this—in addition to
dozens of internal content links and external links to helpful sites, this eBook features 92 mouse rollovers. Where tools are
listed, simply move your cursor over each diamond-shaped
symbol and a photo appears. Very cool! And extremely helpful as you
decide which tools to add to your personal bike workshop.
♦ To see this exclusive rollover feature in action,
click here
to open a PDF of page 29 and move your cursor over the diamond symbols. (The green hyperlinks may not be operational in extracted pages.)
 BONUS!
Your Home Bicycle Workshop contains
numerous interesting and fun vintage bike ads, photos and illustrations from Jim
Langley's extensive collection. Some of these are extremely rare and could be
printed and framed to decorate your home workshop or office.
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Author Jim Langley
worked as a professional
bicycle mechanic or service manager in seven shops from New Hampshire to
California between 1972 and 1999. He also served as technical editor of
Bicycling magazine and designed the bicycle and product testing facilities
in the magazine's West Coast office. Throughout this period Jim has had a
garage-based home bike workshop, meager to begin with but now one of the nicest on
the planet. In Your Home Bicycle Workshop he shows you how to create
the perfect shop for your needs without trial and error or expensive (or dumb)
mistakes. It's simply the most helpful book about home bike workshops ever written.
Here's an excerpt from chapter 2, "The
Workbench." It illustrates Jim's friendly, easy-to-read, non-technical
approach to the information. Creating a home bike workshop should be enjoyable, and Jim
makes sure that learning how is part of the fun.
EXCERPT:
Workbench Dimensions
Before you do any bench building
(or buying), carefully consider how tall you want yours to be. This is a
function of your height and preference. Obviously taller folks usually like
higher benches. Yet if other people will use it, a high bench might make it more
difficult for them to work, so it’s best to shoot for a height compatible with
all users.
 I’m about 6 feet tall, and the 1970s Sears workbenches I use in my shop are 34
inches high, which I feel is the ideal height. I’ve worked on benches 36 inches
high, and those two extra inches are enough to make the benches feel a little
too high for me. If I’m working on something lying on the bench, say regreasing
a hub on a wheel, the height of the wheel and the tools I’m using raise my hands
outside my comfort zone. I can still get the job done, but on the lower bench I
have more control and don’t have to fight to do the job.
You don’t have to build prototype benches or guess at what height you like.
Instead just go around your house measuring your other work surfaces, such as
your kitchen and bathroom counters. Don’t measure desks and tables, because
those are made for sitters, so they’re usually too low, though they might be
just right if you’re a vertically challenged bicycle mechanic. When you find a
counter that seems about right, do some projects there to get a feel for working
at that bench height and see if it’ll work for you.
Also consider how large your bench will be. If you have the room I recommend a
bench that’s in the range of 6 feet long and 2 feet wide, which is what I use.
That’s enough surface to lay components out and still have a place for your
tools and manuals. More space is even better, because it lets you leave extended
projects without them tying up your main bench. For this I have multiple
benches, though if you have room another solution is to build a larger bench.
At Bicycling magazine, for example, where I devoted one wall of the room
to the bench, I built one 8 feet long. One end was for projects in progress
waiting for things. Keep in mind that if you build a workbench and decide you
need a larger top, it’s usually easy to put one on if the bench base is up to
the task of supporting it. In fact, some workbenches you buy don’t come with
tops allowing you to add whatever size you wish.
(Next, Jim explores a key workbench question:
"To Buy or Build.")
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TOC:
Your Home Bicycle Workshop
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Safety First
1. Your Work Space
2. The Workbench
3. The Repair
Stand
4. The Truing
Stand
5. Tools and
Supplies
6. Tool
Organization
7. Bicycle Storage
8. Parts
Organization
9. Resources
Index
Excerpt
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