What Repair / Maintenance manuel to buy

Andy54057
Andy54057 Posts: 22
edited August 2010 in Workshop
I've just got into the sport, and I quite like tinkering myself as opposed to taking my bike into a shop for every little issue, but which manuel would you recommend....

I've got an IceToolz kit, but manuel-wise I'm undecided....

I want some thing quite in-depth, mainly road bike orientated, and not too noddyish...

What would you recommend...?
Scott R3 custom build from a good mate (Morgfish.co.uk)....

Scott R3 2009 frame
SRAM Rival 2010 Groupset
Richey WCS Carbon Stem, Bars and Seat Post
San Marcos Seat
Mavic Ksyruim Elite wheels

Comments

  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    The Park Tools website has eveything you need to know, it's free and it's always up to date.

    And Youtube will have a video showing every bit of maintenance you will ever need to do on a bike, including building your own wheels.
  • chriskempton
    chriskempton Posts: 1,245
    edited August 2010
    ¿Que?
  • msw
    msw Posts: 313
    A combination of the Park Tool website, Sheldon Brown and this forum gets me through most things, but recently I did buy Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance because it's not always convenient to have a laptop in the shed... some people don't like the fact that it has illustrations rather than photos but I don't see the objection. It's good to have an all in one book for speed of reference and it has handy things like an appendix listing recommended torques for all sorts of bolt on a bike.
    "We're not holding up traffic. We are traffic."
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    + 3 on a combination of websites, forums and youtube. I have a few bike maintenance books which in the last 12 years have become largely out of date. I'm keeping them in case I ever need to restore an older bike, but they are useless for my newish road bike.

    Bear in mind also that the Park Tools and Sheldon Brown pages aren't always completely up to date.

    Youtube is great; you get a much better idea of the job you're considering when you watch somebody else doing it first. Often I think "blimey, that looks so easy. What was I worried about."
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    ¿Que?

    Si.

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  • just picked this up : http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/ ... book-31972

    Nice binding so you can leave it open next to you while you fix stuff.
  • carrock
    carrock Posts: 1,103
    haynes manual is very good indeed- in stock at halfords or wiggle

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Hayne ... e=googleps
  • lae
    lae Posts: 555
    ^ I have to disagree about the Haynes book - unless my edition is very different to yours (and mine is only a few years old) it doesn't cover anything except very basic maintenance and repairs, and only on basic bicycles (old bikes or cheap bikes). Good for the absolute beginner, but It glosses over anything that actually requires more than common sense and a bit of mechanical experience.

    Furthermore, you can't use it as a reference because it doesn't contain information about any specific system types, and there were quite a few instances where it said something along the lines of 'if your bike has X then take it to a bike shop', which really defeats the point of buying a manual in the first place...

    I gave my copy to a friend - if I want to know something I just look it up on the internet.