Bike maintenance book?

Teuchter

Can anyone recommend a bike maintenance book? There are quite a few out there including offerings from Haynes I see but which to go for?

I'm fairly experienced mechanically from fixing cars and motorbikes but am fairly inexperienced when it comes to pushbikes. I've recently started riding everyday, currently on an old, low spec mountain bike but I plan to get a used road bike for the commute so something that covers that sort of thing (i.e. probably not specific to one class of bike) would be most suitable I think.

Aidocp

Teuchter,

After advice on here I went for "Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance" backed up with the web, so far I've never been caught out.

I also have a Van Der Plas book but its more general.

Teuchter

Aidocp wrote:

After advice on here I went for "Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance" backed up with the web, so far I've never been caught out.

Thanks. I saw this one on Amazon but was put off by it being road (i.e. racing?) bike specific. Do you find it provides enough information for maintaining your other bikes?

Maybe I'm just worrying too much that different classes of bikes will be so different.

nicklouse

i would not bother with a book just yet.

the Parktools webby covers more than enough to get most people up to speed. It also will highlite to yourself what type of bike book ypu really need.

linky below. and have a read of sheldon.

Aidocp

Teuchter,

Backed up with the Web its OK but as you say its a bit Road bike specific for my Hybrids I tend to refer to the Van der Plas book more, again backed up with the Web: Park, Sheldon and this forum.

Teuchter

Thanks - that's a good site - added to my bookmarks!

It's nice having something to cover in oily fingerprints however - I'll need to print some of that off to fulfill that job!

Monty Dog

Park Tool do a book too - it's list on their website, useful if you don't have wireless and can't take the web to your shed!

mspoke

I've got "Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance" and I also use the Park Tools, hat pretty much gets me through. Once you've done a job once though you'll probably not need to refer again to books/print-outs.

bluehills

I too can recommend Park Tools web site - excellent.

Wrth buying the book aswell though; "The Big Blue Book of Bicycle Maintanance".

It is blue, but not actually very big - no matter,, it has a very good concise and clear writing style - no colour pics to advertise itself to bookshop browsers but far more usefully it has lots of close up black and white pics.

it's great.