Time to sound off big time!
Is it just me who gets frustrated by the stupidity of the current crop of so-called experts who write bike mechanic manuals. I've just been left dumbfounded by a paragraph that tells the would be to mechanic to "select the right gear before changing the gear shifter cable".
Er, does this writer assume we're psychic or something? Wouldn't it be somehow useful to state which gear specifically is the right gear? The only way I could guess my way through this is that is it must be the same as a roadbike where you change right down to the limit of the cable.
What happens is I know far more about roadbike mechanics than I do about MTB and after my roadbike was stolen, I bought a cheap MTB for general knocking around to work and back. However, I don't know how to change gear cables on grip-shifters as of yet and made the silly mistake of assuming a bike manual would explain it.
I mean, surely, it isn't so hard to describe a basic mechanical process with clear illustrations in steps and then actually list and illustrate the parts involved.
I have a Haynes manual to my boat engine and find this is far better with broken down, exploded illustrations and a bit more detail.
So far all the MTB manuals I got from my library seem to assume you already know how to do the job at hand, which is kind of crazy.
Is it just me who gets frustrated by the stupidity of the current crop of so-called experts who write bike mechanic manuals. I've just been left dumbfounded by a paragraph that tells the would be to mechanic to "select the right gear before changing the gear shifter cable".
Er, does this writer assume we're psychic or something? Wouldn't it be somehow useful to state which gear specifically is the right gear? The only way I could guess my way through this is that is it must be the same as a roadbike where you change right down to the limit of the cable.
What happens is I know far more about roadbike mechanics than I do about MTB and after my roadbike was stolen, I bought a cheap MTB for general knocking around to work and back. However, I don't know how to change gear cables on grip-shifters as of yet and made the silly mistake of assuming a bike manual would explain it.
I mean, surely, it isn't so hard to describe a basic mechanical process with clear illustrations in steps and then actually list and illustrate the parts involved.
I have a Haynes manual to my boat engine and find this is far better with broken down, exploded illustrations and a bit more detail.
So far all the MTB manuals I got from my library seem to assume you already know how to do the job at hand, which is kind of crazy.