In article <Pine.A41.4.44.0302021448180.14210-100000@homer41.u.washington.edu>, trent gregory hill
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> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Jeff Kwapil wrote:
>
> > Garry is correct, the web is a superb resource for bike repair.
> >
> > But I'd like a book.
> >
> > On a warm day, I enjoy the lawn with bike, book and beer.
> >
>
> Jeff,
>
> If you want exhaustive, the Barnett's manuals are as comprehensive as they are spendy. The _Zinn
> and the Art of..._ books are really good, but there are separate volumes for road and mountain
> bikes w/ a great deal of overlap, so if you have both (or if you ride a road bike with canti
> brakes), you'llface a bit of a quandary. The Bicycling Magazine Bike Maintenance and Repair book
> isn't as good as the Zinn books and is tediously verbose in many places, but is a handy one-volume
> source. Lastly, Haynes (the car repair manual folks) publish a one-volume _Haynes Bicycle Book_
> that is quite useful.
>
> Trent
The recommendation for Zinn's book is seconded. I bought the Mountain version for my dad (yeah,
maybe as much a gift for me as him), but the advice it gives has walked me through virtually all the
tough spots in the maintenance of my ancient touring road bike too.
The ideal solution is to lobby Zinn and his publisher to revise the two volumes into a single
complete bike maintenance book. But that hasn't happened yet.
There is a FAQ that covers these things, BTW.
--
Ryan Cousineau,
[email protected] http://www.sfu.ca/~rcousine President, Fabrizio Mazzoleni Fan Club