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Complete Guide To Motorcycle Mechanics, The (2nd Edition)

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As a graduate of MMI, I know the book well. It was designed to supplement the lecture given in the first 6 weeks of school. It was written at a very basic level, since many MMI students have no prior experience (that's why they're in school), and students would be overwhelmed by too much technical information in the first 6 weeks of what is 13 months of training. The book is not useful as an informational tool for a non-student, and is priced high due to limited distribution (check the price of an average college textbook- same reason.) The book is the right tool for it's intended application (the MMI beginning student), but the wrong tool for anything else.

With a misleading title like that (and a price like that), this book is bound to disapoint the reader. The most shocking feature of this awful book is the quality of the pictures. There are far better books out there covering the same subject at half the price and 10 times the quality.

I recently purchased this book to get a thorough understanding of motorcycle mechanics and repair/troubleshooting. Far from it! The title itself "The Complete Guide to Motorcycle Mechanics" should read "The Incomplete Guide .. .". This book is very top level and lacks technical content in every respect. The topics are brief and contain hardly any meaniful substance. You'll be asking yourself "where's the beef". Plus, all of the photo's are in black & white and alot are of poor quality. In my opinion I would not be surprised if this book was written by a bunch of high school students doing a last minute class project hoping to squeak by with a "D" - like "D" for Done. The retail price (no fault of Amazon) is way over-priced. You're better off looking at other books or stick to your favorite motorcycle magazine that covers "how to's". You'll learn more with them in a few pages than you will reading this book. Bottom line, pass up this book and buy something else through Amazon. After all they are the best!

I, like the other reviewer, also attended MMI, the school that uses and produces this book. While attending that school, I complained to the director of education about how INCOMPLETE it was. It is very technical, has terrible pictures, and is badly in need of an update. I suggested to the school that they contract Hugo Wilson to write their next book (British writer, his books have fantastic illustrations.) In case you are wondering, despite the textbook, MMI is an excellent place to learn to fix motorcycles.

I attended the school where this book was written and used for core studies... overall it is a good book for a basic understanding of motorcycle mechanics... though the school has chosen to use other sources as well now. The rumor is that this will be the last update of the book... the information in the book could use some updating to more modern standards and could be presented in a slightly more indepth fassion. This book needs work, but has potential for the starting mechanic