Useful & Interesting on line guide from Dean Woods

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Useful & Interesting on line guide from Dean Woods

Postby MichaelB » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:51 pm

Was browsing around the web trying to find some data for resistance training to augment cycling, and found this u beaut link at the Dean Woods web store. You can click on each of the links and it opens to the text.

It covers areas such as bike maintenance, wardrobe, equipment, bike fit setup, road & track racing tips, alternatives to cycling, body maintenance, physiology & psychology, training, race prep and a quick discussion of the Great races of the world.

There is buckets of info and its all free !!

Dean Woods manual of Cycling

Even has some piccies for us who can't read too much !!

Cheers

Michael B

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Postby Mulger bill » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:11 pm

Thanks Michael, cant get enough reference material :wink:

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Postby MichaelB » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:22 am

No probs Shaun.

Interesting that the guide mentioned using diesel oil (I presume he means diesel fuel) as a cleaning agent !!

Haven't had a good read yet, but will do so today during lunch.

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Postby LuckyPierre » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:26 pm

MichaelB wrote: ... Interesting that the guide mentioned using diesel oil (I presume he means diesel fuel) as a cleaning agent !! ...
I use diesel too (well, as a cleaner for mucky bits when I'm rebuilding old bikes). I started because it was all I had, and I haven't had any reason to change.

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Postby key » Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:02 pm

i thought kerosene would of been a better cleaner than diesel ?

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Postby europa » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:35 pm

Diesel is kinder on rubber components ... but there aren't many of them in a push bike drive train. It's also safer than kero and that might be why it was suggested. Like kero, it leaves a coating when it evaporates which helps prevent corosion. Petrol is dangerous to use and evaporates completely which is why it's not such a good choice.

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