Get the most out of every component on your mountain bike with expert tips from cycling guru Lennard Zinn! For every component employed on a mountain bike, there are dozens of alternative parts available to improve or alter its function. Zinn discusses those alternatives, and offers strategies for updating, improving, altering and tuning those components. Offers the pros and cons of all modifications, and discusses both existing as well as replacement components.

Mountain Bike Performance Handbook

Sports & Outdoors

Zinn, Lennard

Individual Sports

Motorbooks Intl

Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance: The World's Best-Selling Bicycle Repair and Maintenance Guide, 6th Edition

Science & Math

Physics

VeloPress

Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, 7th Edition: The World's Best-Selling Guide to Mountain Bike Repair

Guides the reader through every aspect of troubleshooting and mountain-bike maintenance in a succinct, idiot-proof format.

Zinn & Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Velo Press

Shows how to maintain and repair the different components of a mountain bike, lists basic tools and equipment, and discusses how to select the size of a built-up bike from your body measurements

Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance

This small-format, portable resource is for every mountain biker to take along on rides and keep important records in one place. It provides service and maintenance checklists, mileage logs, and pages to list bike purchase information and component documentation. In addition, it includes helpful instructions on safety, tools, proper clothing, emergencies, and repairs.

Mountain Bike Owner's Manual

Reference

Pelkey, Charles

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

From shifters to derailleurs, pedals to handlebars, this book covers every component of a road bike. It helps new bike owners tackle simple to advanced projects, listing the tools needed, explaining bike components, and demonstrating with detailed illustrations how to work on each part.

Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance

In this book, Lennard Zinn explains and demonstrates how to completely and properly maintain every component of a mountain bike, including chains, derailleurs, shifters, wheels, brakes, cranks, bottom brackets, pedals, saddles, seatposts, suspension systems, handlebars, stems, headsets, forks, and frames.
He describes and rates every repair and counsels the novice bike mechanic how to decide whether or not to take the bike to a bike shop for professional attention. Extensive line drawings show how parts fit together and illustrate the tools required for every type of bike. Also explained are emergency on-trail repair tricks.

Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, Third Edition

Religion & Spirituality

A complete guide to the sport and pastime, Zinn's Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists is for the novice and aficionado alike. The book includes routine bicycle maintenance tips, simple tricks to fix troublesome quirks, and tutorials to help increase cycling performance. The focus is on both learnable skills and understanding components and hardware. Specific units range from improving pedal stroke and building a disc brake rear wheel to setting up clip-in pedals and shoes and mastering technical uphills. Famous athletes and mechanics provide special insight, and accompanying photographs clearly illustrate each procedure. Aimed at road and mountain cyclists as well as triathletes, this book presents valuable information in a format that's fun and easy to grasp.

Zinn's Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists

The most concise, well-organized, and clearly illustrated reference available, Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance gently guides the reader — regardless of mountain bike experience or mechanical prowess — through every aspect of maintenance, repair, and troubleshooting in a succinct and easy-to-read format and presents the latest technological advances and equipment in mountain bike components. Detailed diagrams and simple instructions explain everything from repairing a flat tire to building a wheel. The instructions are useful for anyone interested in mountain bikes, yet concise and complete enough to cover every state-of-the art technical concern facing today's mountain biker. This timely revision offers updated information on shock pump adaptors, master links, V-brakes, cleat mounting and pedal overhaul, oversize handlebars, carbon steering tubes, tubeless rims, and much more. Repairs are rated for degree of difficulty while line drawings illustrate how parts fit together and show the tools needed to keep bikes in top shape and pedaling smoothly both on and off the trail.

Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

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