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[Closed] Park Big Blue Book - worth it or not?

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Had a look in Merlin and saw it's a decent reduction. I appreciate all the info is available on Park site and elsewhere but would it make a decent present for someone getting into biking?


 
Posted : 09/07/2010 9:30 pm
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It's OK - I've not got any of the other ones to compare it with, but it is pretty thorough and detailed, and I can take it into the garage which I can't do with their website!


 
Posted : 09/07/2010 9:36 pm
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It's OK - I've not got any of the other ones to compare it with, but it is pretty thorough and detailed, and I can take it into the garage which I can't do with their website!

Get an I-Pad............unless of course the website uses Flash.


 
Posted : 09/07/2010 9:44 pm
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Why would you want to be touching an iPad screen with dirty greasy fingers?

Worth it imo - much better than trying to use a laptop.


 
Posted : 09/07/2010 9:49 pm
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yo can't watch videos of people showing you stuff on a book!


 
Posted : 09/07/2010 9:59 pm
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yo can't watch videos of people showing you stuff on a book!

Or on an I-Pad. ๐Ÿ˜›


 
Posted : 09/07/2010 10:00 pm
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Got the Park one and Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance.

I'd actually go with the Zinn one. The Park one is good but a little too precise (Zinn has more real world/bodging stuff) and the whole "use your Park PRZ432 to turn your Park FV32 clockwise then check the tension with your Park TZ12" business gets a bit irritating...

Zinn also has a good wheel-building chapter, which isn't included in the Park book at all.


 
Posted : 09/07/2010 10:21 pm