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Mike Burrows is a legend and this is the long awaited masterwork - revised and updated in this new edition - from the world's most famous and irreverent bicycle designer and inventor. "Bicycle Design" is the essential handbook if you want to know how to go faster, or if you simply love cycle technology. Inside, you'll find no-nonsense explanations of everything from aerodynamics to suspension forks.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By J. Voelcker
Format:Paperback
More a coffee-table book than a serious reference manual, this small volume will suffice as a reasonable introduction to the fundamentals of bicycle design, but only for those too daunted by basic maths and physics to read the much better Bicycling Science by DG Wilson (also available on Amazon). The author's highly informal and at times slapdash style will annoy some readers, and despite the most recent edition being published in 2008 most of the content reads as though it were written in about 1995, albeit with some hastily tacked-on updates at the end of some of the chapters. The sections on aerodynamics and composite frame materials are interesting but slightly spoilt by the dogmatic and opinionated views of the author which make it difficult to know what to believe and what to treat with scepticism. An interesting if frustrating read with the odd tit-bit of useful information, but not a thorough or comprehensive work by any means.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By R. W. Berry
Format:Paperback
Overall, a useful book that provides some thought-provoking discussion regarding issues such as cadence, crank length, suspension benefits, frame material selection etc. However, it is rather dissappointing in that its primary focus is on the design of machines for speed and downhill racing. It lacks consideration of design evolution for bicycles used as day to day transport means, with all the design compromises that this involves. I still await publication of anything useful on this topic, although I note that W H Smith list "Cycle History" by Nicholas Oddy et al as appearing soon. I look forward to seeing how that shapes up.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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What a disappointment! Mike Burrows has quite a reputation as a controversial, innovative bike designer. Unfortunately in this book he fails to communicate any worthwhile technical details (OK so he admits its not his strongpoint) but neither does he make a useful contribution from his career of designing bikes.
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A Good Bike Book
If you like bikes both riding and tinkering then this is a book for you.
I could`nt put it down till it was read
I could`nt put it down till it was read
Published 3 months ago by Alexander Holding
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant!
Mike Burrows is one of the most prolific and innovative bicycle designers going. This little book covers a lot of ground, with a bias towards racing bikes and a nod in the... Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2010 by Mr. C. Norris
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An excellent introduction for the layman
Mike Burrows has set out in this book much of the thinking behind designing such innovative bikes as the Lotus superbike, 8Freight load bike and the RatCatcher recumbent. Read more
Published on 26 Jun 2007 by David Martin
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