Bike Maintenance book -Recommendations please

[Steve N]

Can someone recommend me a really good comprehensive bike maintenance book please.

My bikes are my old Tourer and my new Dawes Sportif so don't need anything specific to MTB's or the like.

 

[Fattman]

I have one maintenance book - Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance. This has got me all the way from complete ignorance through to now doing pretty much all my own maintenance.

I believe it's been updated since I got it a couple of years back, and it covered a lot of detail in different systems (Campag vs Shimano etc).

 

[The Eighth Man]

If you search youtube you will find a demo of anything you need, you just need to know that they are doing it right

 

[Davidc]

The book in post #2 is good - I've borrowed a copy in the past a couple of times and very impressed.

If you're going to get into bike maintenance get familiar with the Sheldon Brown website and with Bicycle Tutor, both are very useful resurces.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Park Tool website - print out the pages you need, as and when.

 

[slowmotion]

The Bicycle Tutor website is excellent. Actually seeing somebody doing it is incredibly valuable.

Park Tool and Sheldon Brown are very good too.

Good advice from all the posters.

 

[Steve N]

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions guys.
I didn't realise there were so many great sites out there.

 

[Dayvo]

For 13 squid, this is as good as most: http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/total-bike-repair-maintenance-2/