On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 8:17:26 PM UTC+1, Ned Mantei wrote:
On 01-01-18 16:06, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 1/1/2018 1:11 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
avagadro wrote:

https://www.google.com/search?gl=us&....0.JrkuSLIK9Rk


Everyone welcome! I have virtually all the
tools and if anyone has questions I'll just
patch them to you guys and have the answers
handed out as bedtime reading

Speaking of reading: It may be worthwhile to accumulate a little library
of bike repair books. Buying from a source like this would make them
inexpensive:

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sea...repair&isbn =


Of course, some of those books are much better than others. I think this
one is unusually good:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sea...cycle+re pair


If those were on your shelves, your friends might have far fewer questions.



Thanks for the link to the Park Tool "big blue" books. I have found
their website to be reliable and extremely helpful, so I would expect
the book to also be very good.

And this discussion reminds me that in the 1980's I bought Eugene
Sloane's "Bicycle Maintenance Manual" and "The All New Complete Book of
Bicycling". And later there was Brank Berto's "Upgrading Your Bike".
Times have changed...

Ned

I gave the Big Blue book to my friend a couple of years ago as a birthday present. Although it is a decent book I was not impressed; all basic stuff. A book can't possibly keep up with all the new developments, brands and types of all bike parts. You have to go online for that.
Half a year ago I build a bike for a friend from scratch with the new Dura Ace gruppo. All went well until the adjustment of the front derailleur. WTF??? was that. The annoying thing is/was that there was no instruction in the box. They expect you to go online for that. Unfortunately Shimano, Campagnolo ab SRAM gave all terrible websites.

Lou