Bike maitenance books

boycee73
boycee73 Posts: 15
edited October 2010 in Road beginners
Can anyone recommend a good road bike maintenance book. I like the sounds of both Lennard Zinn and the Big blue bike book.

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  • furrag
    furrag Posts: 481
    The Zinn book is immense! It's my bible, along with the videos on biketutor.com.

    I picked the Zinn book up in pretty much first-hand condition for £3 delivered from Amazon marketplace. :shock:
  • racingcondor
    racingcondor Posts: 1,434
    Most people will recommend Zinn, I've found the book below to be very easy to understand and well laid out -

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Bike-Maintenance-Guy-Andrews/dp/0713681993/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285069781&sr=1-2
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    racingcondor wrote:
    Most people will recommend Zinn, I've found the book below to be very easy to understand and well laid out -

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Bike-Maintenance-Guy-Andrews/dp/0713681993/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285069781&sr=1-2

    I have the one from Amazon and its very good - excellent informative pictures
  • lae
    lae Posts: 555
    Zinn's alright if you can get it cheaply.

    I think the Park Tools website and Sheldon Brown websites are best though. Park Tools is updated regularly and covers pretty much everything on modern bikes; Sheldon Brown covers vintage and older bikes and has loads of tricks and tips and is generally a pleasure to read.

    Don't get the Haynes book, it's rubbish. Too simple for anyone who can hold a spanner, but too complicated for anyone that doesn't know what a spanner is.
  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    I have to say that I use the internet mostly. Sheldon Brown for the concepts and then youtube for the demonstrations. I especially like some of the Youtube videos on how to fix things as you can watch and copy.

    I even managed to fix the motor on my washing machine using that technique 8)

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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    In Halfords earlier on for something and spied a Haynes Manual on bike maintenace. Only had a brief glimpse but it seemed to cover most bases, and being a Haynes book is probably quite thorough. £14.99 cover price.
  • davenice
    davenice Posts: 72
    I've got the big blue book and it's pretty good. Much more comprehensive than most I've found, although it does assume you have some idea what you're doing.

    I haven't seen any of the others and it is quite expensive...

    Dave
  • ian_s
    ian_s Posts: 183
    Thanks to this thread I just picked up one of these

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listin ... ition=used

    2.75 delivered. I was expecting a tatty used copy, which would have been ok, but what arrived was brand new :D They still seem to have them at that price..

    I suspect it is not the absolutely latest edition so maybe they are shifting old stock, but mine is published 2005 and I doubt much has changed since.

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