Thanks to everyone who gave advice on the question below-
which manual to buy for basic repair of city bike.
I have one more question, which may sound stunningly
obvious but my library unfortunately doesn't stock any kind
of bike manuals/guides, and the reviews on the Web are
unhelpful... which is better to buy for a basic city bike,
Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, or Zinn and
the Art of Basic Road Bike Maintenance? As far as I can
tell the Road Bike Maintenance deals mostly with what we in
Britain a "racing bike" (low handle-bars), whereas the
Mountain Bike version obviously doesn't sound quite what
I'm after. My bike is the standard City bike with large
frame and thin tyres.
As you can see I don't know much about bikes!
Thanks again and any help gratefully appreciated.
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> Bob Sims Lie De wrote:
> > Hi, I'm new to biking and am looking for a decent
> > Repair/Advice Manual for my city/road bike, so I don't
> > have to keep going to the bike shop when the thing
> > breaks down. I've read reviews on Amazon of authors
> > like Leonard Zinn, etc, but there seems to be a lot of
> > choice.. anyone got any recommendations to make? I'm
> > not looking at high-level stuff, more a well-
> > diagrammed, straightforward manual which includes most
> > of the common problems a bike owner would come across
> > and solutions to solve them. Thanks
>
>
>
> I own Hayes, Zinn (got both cheap/used) and Barnetts (new
> 5th edition
> - note that the version you can download online is the 4th
> edition from 2000 ).
>
> If you don't want to spend too much money, I'd get Hayes
> or Zinn (used or from Amazon), but there is so much useful
> info online that you don't even need those necessarily. I
> find it's useful to cross reference because some sources
> cover issues better than others.
>
> Since I'm currently building up a road bike from scratch,
> I appreciate the level of detail in Barnetts and can spend
> hours looking at exploded diagrams of brifters but it's
> overkill for just general maintenance tips and the older
> online version is fine unless you're a fanatic about up-to-
> date detail.
>
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