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Werehatrack wrote: On 21 Apr 2004 09:37:34 -0700, (Bob Sims Lie Detector) may have said: Hi, I'm new to biking and am looking for a decent Repair/Advice Manual for my city/road bike, The Zinn book is a very good place to start, but might I suggest checking to see if it's in your public library? Checking it out and reading it may help you decide whether it's worth buying a copy. They'll probably have some of the others available as well. I'm happy with the Zinn: I got the mountain bike book for my father, then it came to live at my house (some gift! Well, I did give him a bike). There's a lot of overlap between the road and mountain bike books. So much so that I'd recommend getting the one appropriate to your main bike and adapting as necessary. Bike maintenance isn't rocket science. That said, the Barnett's (available online) is the bible of bike maintenance, but it covers stuff that just isn't ever going to happen to most home mechanics (are you planning to re-face your bottom bracket?), and it's expensive. But that one can be scrounged up from online sources. Then you get people like me: I now own my own dropout alignment tool. No reason, it's the sort of thing that just happens sometimes. Oh, and if you have a mountain bike with a suspension fork, bear in mind that the fork's servicing procedures are unlikely to be in any book. There are enough different fork designs to fill a good-sized book without ever mentioning the rest of the bike. On that note, I cannot speak for other fork-makers, but Marzocchi has what appears to be the service manuals for every darned fork they ever made available online. It came in very handy when I re-did my 1997 Z.2. -- Ryan Cousineau, http://www.sfu.ca/~rcousine/wiredcola/ President, Fabrizio Mazzoleni Fan Club |
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Werehatrack wrote: On 21 Apr 2004 09:37:34 -0700, (Bob Sims Lie Detector) may have said: Hi, I'm new to biking and am looking for a decent Repair/Advice Manual for my city/road bike, The Zinn book is a very good place to start, but might I suggest checking to see if it's in your public library? Checking it out and reading it may help you decide whether it's worth buying a copy. They'll probably have some of the others available as well. I'm happy with the Zinn: I got the mountain bike book for my father, then it came to live at my house (some gift! Well, I did give him a bike). There's a lot of overlap between the road and mountain bike books. So much so that I'd recommend getting the one appropriate to your main bike and adapting as necessary. Bike maintenance isn't rocket science. That said, the Barnett's (available online) is the bible of bike maintenance, but it covers stuff that just isn't ever going to happen to most home mechanics (are you planning to re-face your bottom bracket?), and it's expensive. But that one can be scrounged up from online sources. Then you get people like me: I now own my own dropout alignment tool. No reason, it's the sort of thing that just happens sometimes. Oh, and if you have a mountain bike with a suspension fork, bear in mind that the fork's servicing procedures are unlikely to be in any book. There are enough different fork designs to fill a good-sized book without ever mentioning the rest of the bike. On that note, I cannot speak for other fork-makers, but Marzocchi has what appears to be the service manuals for every darned fork they ever made available online. It came in very handy when I re-did my 1997 Z.2. -- Ryan Cousineau, http://www.sfu.ca/~rcousine/wiredcola/ President, Fabrizio Mazzoleni Fan Club |
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Bob Sims Lie De wrote:
Hi, I'm new to biking and am looking for a decent Repair/Advice Manual for my city/road bike, so I don't have to keep going to the bike shop when the thing breaks down. I've read reviews on Amazon of authors like Leonard Zinn, etc, but there seems to be a lot of choice.. anyone got any recommendations to make? I'm not looking at high-level stuff, more a well-diagrammed, straightforward manual which includes most of the common problems a bike owner would come across and solutions to solve them. Thanks I own Hayes, Zinn (got both cheap/used) and Barnetts (new 5th editio - note that the version you can download online is the 4th editio from 2000 ) If you don't want to spend too much money, I'd get Hayes or Zinn (use or from Amazon), but there is so much useful info online that you don' even need those necessarily. I find it's useful to cross referenc because some sources cover issues better than others Since I'm currently building up a road bike from scratch, I appreciat the level of detail in Barnetts and can spend hours looking at explode diagrams of brifters but it's overkill for just general maintenance tip and the older online version is fine unless you're a fanatic about up-to date detail - |
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Bob Sims Lie De wrote:
Hi, I'm new to biking and am looking for a decent Repair/Advice Manual for my city/road bike, so I don't have to keep going to the bike shop when the thing breaks down. I've read reviews on Amazon of authors like Leonard Zinn, etc, but there seems to be a lot of choice.. anyone got any recommendations to make? I'm not looking at high-level stuff, more a well-diagrammed, straightforward manual which includes most of the common problems a bike owner would come across and solutions to solve them. Thanks I own Hayes, Zinn (got both cheap/used) and Barnetts (new 5th editio - note that the version you can download online is the 4th editio from 2000 ) If you don't want to spend too much money, I'd get Hayes or Zinn (use or from Amazon), but there is so much useful info online that you don' even need those necessarily. I find it's useful to cross referenc because some sources cover issues better than others Since I'm currently building up a road bike from scratch, I appreciat the level of detail in Barnetts and can spend hours looking at explode diagrams of brifters but it's overkill for just general maintenance tip and the older online version is fine unless you're a fanatic about up-to date detail - |
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Bob Sims Lie Detector wrote:
Hi, I'm new to biking and am looking for a decent Repair/Advice Manual for my city/road bike, so I don't have to keep going to the bike shop when the thing breaks down. I've read reviews on Amazon of authors like Leonard Zinn, etc, but there seems to be a lot of choice.. anyone got any recommendations to make? I'm not looking at high-level stuff, more a well-diagrammed, straightforward manual which includes most of the common problems a bike owner would come across and solutions to solve them. Thanks Peruse Anybody's Bike Book, completely approachable to the novice. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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Bob Sims Lie Detector wrote:
Hi, I'm new to biking and am looking for a decent Repair/Advice Manual for my city/road bike, so I don't have to keep going to the bike shop when the thing breaks down. I've read reviews on Amazon of authors like Leonard Zinn, etc, but there seems to be a lot of choice.. anyone got any recommendations to make? I'm not looking at high-level stuff, more a well-diagrammed, straightforward manual which includes most of the common problems a bike owner would come across and solutions to solve them. Thanks Peruse Anybody's Bike Book, completely approachable to the novice. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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Advice Wanted- Beginner Biker, Which Repair Manual to Buy
Thanks to everyone who gave advice on the question below- which manual
to buy for basic repair of city bike. I have one more question, which may sound stunningly obvious but my library unfortunately doesn't stock any kind of bike manuals/guides, and the reviews on the Web are unhelpful... which is better to buy for a basic city bike, Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, or Zinn and the Art of Basic Road Bike Maintenance? As far as I can tell the Road Bike Maintenance deals mostly with what we in Britain a "racing bike" (low handle-bars), whereas the Mountain Bike version obviously doesn't sound quite what I'm after. My bike is the standard City bike with large frame and thin tyres. As you can see I don't know much about bikes! Thanks again and any help gratefully appreciated. wesfcommuter wrote in message ... Bob Sims Lie De wrote: Hi, I'm new to biking and am looking for a decent Repair/Advice Manual for my city/road bike, so I don't have to keep going to the bike shop when the thing breaks down. I've read reviews on Amazon of authors like Leonard Zinn, etc, but there seems to be a lot of choice.. anyone got any recommendations to make? I'm not looking at high-level stuff, more a well-diagrammed, straightforward manual which includes most of the common problems a bike owner would come across and solutions to solve them. Thanks I own Hayes, Zinn (got both cheap/used) and Barnetts (new 5th edition - note that the version you can download online is the 4th edition from 2000 ). If you don't want to spend too much money, I'd get Hayes or Zinn (used or from Amazon), but there is so much useful info online that you don't even need those necessarily. I find it's useful to cross reference because some sources cover issues better than others. Since I'm currently building up a road bike from scratch, I appreciate the level of detail in Barnetts and can spend hours looking at exploded diagrams of brifters but it's overkill for just general maintenance tips and the older online version is fine unless you're a fanatic about up-to- date detail. -- |
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