Synopses & Reviews
Zinn and the Art of Rod Bike Maintenance: The World's Best-Selling Bicycle Repair and Maintenance GuideThe World's Best Repair Guide for Bikes!
If you are looking for easy-to-follow instructions on how to repair a bicycle, Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is the best guide you'll find. No matter what kind of bike you own--an aging 10-speed with hard-to-find parts or a brand-new, tricked-out race machine--Lennard Zinn's guide to all road and cyclocross bicycles is a one-stop reference that will show you the correct way to maintain and repair any bike.
Whether you are a novice bike mechanic or an experienced gearhead, you will find complete DIY instructions for basic and advanced bicycle care, accompanied by hundreds of detailed illustrations, exploded views of how parts go together, and time-saving tips. Itemized tool lists explain what you'll need to do the job, whether you are stocking a workshop or tackling a roadside repair.
Bicycle Basics
- How to do your own bike fit
- Simple instructions for regular bicycle care
- Maintenance schedules to keep your bike running trouble-free
Complete Bike Repair
- How to fix every bike part: Brakes, wheels, tires, headsets, derailleurs, pedals, chains, hubs, handlebars, saddles--you name it, it's covered
Solve Common Bicycle Problems
- Diagnose and fix problems like a skipping chain, rough shifting, squeaky brakes, or a stuck seatpost with troubleshooting tables and tips
Everything Covered, Old and New
- Campagnolo EPS and Shimano Di2 electronic shifting systems (all types); all Ergopower and Dual Control STI systems, including 11-speed; all SRAM DoubleTap
- Mechanical and hydraulic disc brakes for road and cyclocross bicycles
- All bottom brackets, cup-and-cone to BB90 and everything in between
The Ultimate Reference
- Exhaustive troubleshooting index; glossary of terms; torque specifications; gear chart for compact and regular cranks; bike fit tables
Over 650 Illustrations and Exploded Views!
Lennard Zinn was a member of the U.S. national racing team and has been riding and fixing bikes for more than 50 years. A professional frame builder and bike designer, Lennard is also the technical writer for Velo magazine and hosts the popular Q&A column on VeloNews.com. His other books include Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, Zinn and the Art of Triathlon Bikes, Zinn's Cycling Primer, The Mountain Bike Performance Handbook, and The Mountain Bike Owner's Manual. He lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.
Review
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"Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is a beast of a book and can help you remedy any problem that might arise while working on a road bike. It's packed with in-depth explanations and useful diagrams." -- Velo magazine
"Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is the gold standard textbook for aspiring home mechanics. From simple tasks such as fixing a flat tire to advanced overhauls of drivetrains or brakes, this book's step-by-step guides explain the tasks and tools your newbie will need to get the job done right." -- RoadBikeReview.com
"This smartly organized guide shows how to repair new and old bicycles from top to bottom. Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is essential cycling gear for all road and cyclocross riders." -- Crossbikereview.com
"Lennard Zinn is an institution in the bicycle world--a legend. Legions of cyclists have learned to repair bikes from him, ridden bicycles he's built, or used his advice as guidance on how to better enjoy the world on two wheels." -- Bicycle Times magazine
"Today's bicycles are complicated machines that can be expensive to maintain and repair. Zinn has written this book to help both the leisure bike rider and expert mechanic handle almost any problem associated with road bikes." -- Library Journal
"Lennard Zinn really is the world's most helpful and comprehensive human when it comes to bicycle repair and maintenance." -- Bike magazine
"Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance has instructions on anything an aspiring wrench would want to know. What impresses most is Lennard's overall approach of simplifying a task and reminding us how rewarding it is to perform our own service." -- Podium Café
"Lennard Zinn is a veritable cycling Einstein and, as a naturally gifted teacher, he has the unique ability to explain even the most difficult mechanical task. So unless you currently ride on a high-profile pro team with your own mechanic (and maybe even then), Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is an absolute 'must-have' book." -- Davis Phinney, Olympic medalist, national champion, and Tour de France stage winner
"Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is simple, easy to follow and the illustrations are magnificent...If you are looking for a bicycle repair manual, get this book." -- Cycloculture
"Lennard Zinn's book might be the work that launched a 1,000 repair projects. Or, at least, it placated many home mechanics when they started cursing skipped shifts or loose headsets." -- Canadian Cycling magazine
"If ever there was a classic text on bike maintenance, this has to be it...Like its predecessors, it goes from super simple right through to complete re-builds. All are explained by a combination of Zinn's unique humour-filled, insightful and clear text, with Todd Telander's brilliant illustrations." -- 220 Triathlon
Synopsis
Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is the world's best-selling guide to bicycle repair and maintenance. From basic repairs like how to fix a flat tire to advanced overhauls of drivetrains and brakes, Zinn's clearly illustrated guide makes every bicycle repair and maintenance job easy for everyone.
Zinn's friendly step-by-step guide explains the tools you'll need and how to know you've done the job right. The two-color interior is easy to read--even in a dimly-lit garage or workshop. Hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations and exploded parts diagrams show just the right level of detail to lead you through every bicycle repair task.
This smartly organized guide shows how to repair new and old bicycles from top to bottom. In 560 pages, Zinn's guide includes simple instructions for hundreds of bike maintenance and repair jobs:
- Basics: How to fix a flat tire, lube a bicycle chain, adjust the brakes
- Emergency repairs: How to fix a broken chain, tighten loose spokes, repair a bent derailleur
- Easy shifting: How to clean, lube, and adjust shifters and cables for smooth shifting
- Wheels: How to install a new tire, change a cassette, true a wheel, replace broken spokes, build your own wheels
- Overhauls: How to repair pedals, chains and chainrings, saddles, handlebars, stems, headsets, forks
- New tech: How to maintain 11-speed systems, electronic shifters, disc brakes
- Cyclocross: How to set up a 'cross bike for racing, select the right components, and make quick repairs
- Troubleshooting: How to figure out what's wrong with any bike and fix it
Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance makes bicycle repair and maintenance easy, quick, affordable, and fun. With Zinn at your side, you'll know how to keep your bicycling running smoothly for years.
New this edition: New Shimano Dura-Ace and Ultegra electronic shifting; Shimano 11-speed; all bottom bracket formats (BB90, 92, 94, 386); hydraulic road and 'cross disc brakes; disc brake forks and wheel building; expanded information on gear selection for carbon wheels; expanded coverage of cyclocross maintenance, repair, and selecting the right gear for race conditions; updated and expanded torque tables and troubleshooting index; illustration index.
About the Author
Lennard Zinn is a world-renowned bicycle technician, frame builder, and tech writer for VELO magazine and VeloNews.com. Zinn was a member of the U.S. national racing team and has been riding and fixing bikes for nearly 50 years. A professional frame builder and bike designer for his business Zinn Cycles, Lennard hosts the popular bike tech Q&A column on VeloNews.com. His other books include Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance, Zinn and the Art of Triathlon Bikes, Zinn's Cycling Primer, The Mountain Bike Performance Handbook, and The Mountain Bike Owner's Manual. He lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
Maintenance and Repair1 Tools
2 Basic Stuff
3 Emergency Repairs
4 The Chain
5 The Shifting System
6 Wheels and Tires
7 Brakes
8 Cranks and Bottom Brackets
9 Pedals
10 Saddles and Seatposts
11 Stems, Handlebars, and Headsets
12 Wheel Building
13 Forks
14 Frames
AppendixesA Troubleshooting Index
B Gear Chart
C Road Bike Fitting
D Glossary
E Torque Table
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Index
About the Author and Illustrator