I could be (easily) missing some of the things at the website but I've poked around there and most of it seems clearly
geared to showing tools and services - the book has MUCH more.

Let me list some:

1. There's a nice 6-7 page glossary (end of book)
2. There's several pages and a table dedicated to scheduled maintenance early on
3. There are about 4 nice photos per page / some 200 pages dedicated to chapters on the "usual bike suspects"
4. There are a number of "trouble shooting" tables - and the one on dérailleurs (chapt 9) would have been what I
needed last week (bent hanger)
5. Wheel truing seems to be covered in good detail (NO expert!) - about 10 pages dedicated to this.
6. Material / pictures on a whole chapter (almost 20 pages) dedicated to tires and tubes. Lots of pictures of tire
faults.
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and oh ya, rather discretely tucked into the back are some nice table of a certain tool manufacturers product numbers for different tasks BUT REALLY - there's a lot of stuff I have never seen before anywhere like how to wash up your bike after an event without doing getting counter productive. Stuff like this....

It's clear it can be as comprehensive as the Barnett manuals - but the photos seem to take me right to where I can see the "topic" then I can read if I am interested. I like that for "learning by skimming" - rather than a lot of drawn out procedures with gobs of do this then do that if..... that's not readable BUT obviously needed if you are a mechanic and have a patient in ER with a particular complex problem. To repeat myself - I am just finding this manual surprisingly "readable" - but then I've been working on this project 6 months and everytime I get something in I have more of a basis to go on.

I don't see this stuff at the site - sure the tool tables & the "bicycle map" bitmap / layers component image is in both.


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Oh and speaking of BOOKS - "NO HANDS" came in today also and I'm just loving this read. Better and more interesting than I ever imagined - so thanks to somebody here for mentioning that.... and I've noted the book above in this thread - can't beat that kind of price.

Clearly a "coffee table" book on bikes - but well worth the $3 or so I paid (!!) via amazon again - is the "The Bicycle" book by Gilbert King. Many many great pictures of old BoneShakers / wooden framed bikes / and assorted "odd duck" machines like the Alenax Mountain Bike early 90's - and some good printed stuff between the pictures too

Every book has something unique - have gathered some 20 already - If I decided to buy Park Tools - then buying this book as a helper if I had a late model standard type bike - would be, a "no brainer" for me. This manual is not a historical reference, is not strongly procedural but packs a lot of great info in its 245 pages.

.... I'll give it 10 thumbs up (because that is the kind of mechanic I would be... )


Michael