maintenance book

[damario]

Looking for a good book to help with gear adjustment initially, and anything else I might need to do throughout the year, any advice much appreciated.

 

[PpPete]

Zinn is good. Road & MTB versions
or Park

 

[smokeysmoo]

Looking for a good book to help with gear adjustment initially, and anything else I might need to do throughout the year, any advice much appreciated.

to CC.

Good suggestions there from PpPete, but IMO you can save your money for more important things. YouTube is your friend in all matters of fettling

View: http://youtu.be/SkzvfCaIbyQ

 

[damario]

Zinn is good. Road & MTB versions
or Park

 

[ianrauk]

As wot others have said the Zinn books.
And the video above is how I learnt to adjust gears - properly.

 

[lavoisier]

Brilliant video, thanks,

 

[damario]

iv seen the zinin halfords but they only had mtb version, assume il find it cheaper on amazonanyway chears

Zinn is good. Road & MTB versions
or Park

 

[damario]

Seen the vid last night was quet easy to follow, good link

 

[cyberknight]

Another vote for Zinn if you want an all round book, for a one off job park tools or youtube should cover just about anything.

 

[lulubel]

Zinn is good. Road & MTB versions
or Park

I have all 3 of these, and find them all useful for different things.

Often, when I have a job to do, I'll go to Park first, then Zinn for more detail, and if I'm still not happy, I ask on here and someone will post a link to a good video.

 

[mrandmrspoves]

The Works is currently selling a book called The Total Bike Maintenance Book by Mel Allwood - very good for beginners at £7.99 - but not too basic for intermediate fettlers either. Will be giving my cycling sons a copy for Christmas in the hope that they start doing their own repairs!

 

[Profpointy]

i'd get the Park Tools book - confusingly it's described as "volume 2" in some listings, implying there's a "volume 1"
in fact, "volume 2" means "second edition" - so you only need that one.

i thought it significantly better than Zinn, especially as the latter comes in "road" and "mountain" flavours

 

[Pauln]

That video is very helpful!

 

[Rancid]

http://sheldonbrown.com/

 

[Gravity Aided]

Sheldon Brown did a great job of explaining all things bicicular . For books , I used to always keep a copy of Zinn and Park Tool when I was doing more repair work , now I mostly gototheweb.