Bike manuals

[One Step Beyond]

Hi, Can anyone recommend a decent bike manual ? I'm of a fairly practical nature but I can see that
the subject of bike tinkering and repair is quite a technical business!! Any on line resources about
adjusting this and that?

OSB

[Pete Biggs]

One Step Beyond wrote:
> Any on line resources about adjusting this and that?

1. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/

2. http://www.parktool.com/repair_help/FAQindex.shtml

3. http://groups.google.com/

4. Specific manufacturer's sites (particularly Shimano Europe and Campagnolo).

There is more but you'll get a long way with just those four plus common sense & trial and error...
better than books as well.

~PB

[One Step Beyond]

Thanks Pete!! OSB

"Pete Biggs" <pbiggmellon{remove_fruit}s2000@onetel.net.uk> wrote in message
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> One Step Beyond wrote:
> > Any on line resources about adjusting this and that?
>
> 1. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/
>
> 2. http://www.parktool.com/repair_help/FAQindex.shtml
>
> 3. http://groups.google.com/
>
> 4. Specific manufacturer's sites (particularly Shimano Europe and Campagnolo).
>
> There is more but you'll get a long way with just those four plus common sense & trial and
> error... better than books as well.
>
> ~PB

[Shanny]

"One Step Beyond" <tinker-too@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, Can anyone recommend a decent bike manual ? I'm of a fairly practical nature but I can see
> that the subject of bike tinkering and repair is
quite
> a technical business!! Any on line resources about adjusting this and
that?
>
> OSB
>

Try having a look at a PDF version (oldish edition) of the Barnett's Manual ( latest hardback
edition at http://www.bbinstitute.com/manual.htm with worksheets etc.) available at
http://www.d.umn.edu/~bjer0078/bike/manual/ and a few other places via Google.

Mike

[Simon Brooke]

"One Step Beyond" <tinker-too@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi, Can anyone recommend a decent bike manual ? I'm of a fairly practical nature but I can see
> that the subject of bike tinkering and repair is quite a technical business!! Any on line
> resources about adjusting this and that?

On line there are Sheldon Brown's and Park Tools' sites which you've already been directed to. Off
line there's _Zinn and the Art of [Mountain|Road] Bike Maintenance_

<URL: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books-uk&field-author=Zinn%2C%20L-
ennard/202-9780142-6099833 >

--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

Wise man with foot in mouth use opportunity to clean toes.
;; the Worlock

[Pete Biggs]

Shanny wrote:

> Try having a look at a PDF version (oldish edition) of the Barnett's Manual ( latest hardback
> edition at http://www.bbinstitute.com/manual.htm with worksheets etc.) available at
> http://www.d.umn.edu/~bjer0078/bike/manual/ and a few other places via Google.

...And be put off bicycle mechanics for life. They make adjusting a derailleur cable look like
rocket science :-(

~PB

[Garry Broad]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:22:17 +0100, "One Step Beyond" <tinker-too@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi, Can anyone recommend a decent bike manual ? I'm of a fairly practical nature but I can see that
>the subject of bike tinkering and repair is quite a technical business!! Any on line resources
>about adjusting this and that?
>

Not exactly online as such, but a great beginners book, with loads of photographs.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1563924285/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/026-3061308-8723636

Garryb

[One Step Beyond]

Geez, thanks for that. It sounds harder than quantum physics after looking at that!!!

"Pete Biggs" <pbiggmellon{remove_fruit}s2000@onetel.net.uk> wrote in message
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> Shanny wrote:
>
> > Try having a look at a PDF version (oldish edition) of the Barnett's Manual ( latest hardback
> > edition at http://www.bbinstitute.com/manual.htm with worksheets etc.) available at
> > http://www.d.umn.edu/~bjer0078/bike/manual/ and a few other places via Google.
>
> ...And be put off bicycle mechanics for life. They make adjusting a derailleur cable look like
> rocket science :-(
>
> ~PB