Book about bike maintenance - recommendations please

Triathlon Forum
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Hi,

I’m looking for a good, thorough book about bike maintenance. I have a Cervelo P2C and a Scott S20 training bike. I’d like to get a book that’s reasonably up to date.

The kind of jobs I’d like to learn to do better would be setting up brake pad position, setting gear indexing, replacing cables, splitting and mending a chain, adjusting headset, changing cassettes and checking wheel bearings.

I know a lot of that info is probably online but Id like to have a book as I can read it while I do the jobs and flick through it in idle moments.

I’d appreciate recommendations from anyone who has such a book.

Cheers

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Zinn and the Art of Triathlon Bikes by Richard Zinn
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Zinn’s books are probably the best. I’ll 2nd that rec.

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Absolutely the Zinn book:

http://www.bikesportmichigan.com/shop/images/P/vp_ztm.jpg

http://www.bikesportmichigan.com/shop/product.php?productid=16379&cat=250&page=1
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Zinn’s books are good but you might also want to check out Park Tool’s “Big Blue Book Of Bicycle Repair”.

http://www.parktool.com/parktoolgear/detail.asp?cat=65&item=BBB-1

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Does anyone know when the 2nd version of the Park Tool book will be released? I saw something that said ‘early 2008’ but that was November-ish 2007 and theres still nothing.

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Thanks for the ideas. I’ll start with the Zinn book and try and have a look at the Park one too.
Cheers

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Best HANDS DOWN, no question, with out doubt http://www.bbinstitute.com/dx.htm

Zinn is good and all…John Barnett and his staff take things to a whole new level. Most of the Park manual was written by Calvin Jones who was a teacher at Barnetts for years.

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I vote for the park blue book- really impressive
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3 years ago I went to BBI Barnett Bicycle Institute in Colorado Springs for the 1 week basic assembly/maintenance and wheel building course.
John and his staff are great.I have a job but wanted to build and work on my own bike.I also wanted to work part time in a shop this got me in the door and was up to speed with the others.The store discounts help me support my addiction.

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Dont forget - as a grad you also get an account at Quality for “tools only ;-)”
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