Bicycle Wheelbuilding: The Manual

Bicycle Wheelbuilding: The Manual is an electronic book that is available to purchase and download directly through this site. It contains comprehensive information about building bicycle wheels as well as selecting the relevant parts.

When it comes to building wheels, it is important to choose the right parts for you. That will depend on the function you intend the wheels for. This book helps you to understand how products vary depending on their function and quality. You could use this book to understand a wheel purchase better, even if you have no intention on building wheels yourself.

A lot of this book is dedicated to understanding product selection as well as providing some reasons for product popularity. The book contains information on all parts of a bicycle wheel, from the bearings to the tyres. Much of the information given is intended to be timeless, giving universal principles that affect the way a wheel performs. Specific products are also described as case studies for innovation.

The book is divided into 23 sections and comes with a glossary. Some of these sections are based upon articles that are available to view for free on this site. All of these sections have been improved for the book. There are other sections which contain information exclusive to the book.

Please follow this link to find out more and/or purchase the book online.