Bicycling Magazine's 1000 All-Time Best Tips: Top Riders Share Their Secrets to Maximize Fun, Safety, and Performance

Some of the tips offered are likely to be discovered by anyone who has even a little experience cycling. Still, there are many that are very helpful, that would not be easily discovered on one's own. Some occasionally contradict others. All in all, it is a very useful book. The index is very complete and a great help in finding specific items in the future.

Although some of the "tips" given in this neat little book are very obvious to all, it is refreshing to see a book cover so many levels of the cyclist's evolution. There are, as I said, very obvious hints, but these are still good to read, and realize one isn't the only novice around who needs affirmation to these. There is something in this book to appeal to every type of cyclist, however, and the reader must decide which segments are going to be beneficial to him/her. I think everyone needs a "go to" book for basic instruction, and this one serves me very well. I think you will like it, too.

Bicycle Magazine's Mr. Hewitt provides 636 tips (plus sub-tips and framed sections with extra tips, presumably totalling 1000) covering safety in traffic, riding positions, skill builders, training techniques, distance riding, mountain biking, racing, health and fitness, nutrition, equipment, and bike care. The tips are stated concisely and are mostly well-organized, although each chapter should have been divided into sections for greater clarity. The glossary and index are excellent. There is one demerit, however: there is a dearth of illustrations (only 9). If the book had contained more diagrams, I would have been compelled to give it a 5. Even better would be to make the book into a video or DVD course!