Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance: The World’s Best-Selling Bicycle Repair and Maintenance Guide
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Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is the world’s best-selling guide to bicycle repair and maintenance.
From basic repairs like how to fix a flat tire to advanced overhauls of drivetrains and brakes, Lennard Zinn’s clearly illustrated guide makes every bicycle repair and maintenance job easy for everyone.
Lennard Zinn is the world’s leading expert on bike maintenance and repair. His friendly step-by-step guide explains the tools you’ll need and how to know you’ve done the job right. The book’s two-color interior is easy to readeven in a dimly-lit garage or workshop. Hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations and exploded parts diagrams show just the right level of detail to lead you through every bicycle repair task.
This smartly organized guide shows how to repair new and old bicycles from top to bottom. In over 500 pages, Zinn’s guide includes simple instructions for hundreds of bike maintenance and repair jobs:
Basics: How to fix a flat tire, lube a bicycle chain, adjust the brakesEmergency repairs: How to fix a broken chain, tighten loose spokes, repair a bent derailleurEasy shifting: How to adjust shifters, derailleurs, and cables for clean and smooth shiftingWheels: How to true a wheel, install a new tire, change a cassette, replace broken spokes, build your own wheelsOverhauls: How to service and replace pedals, chains and chainrings, saddles, handlebars, stems, headsets, forks, bottom bracketsNew tech: How to maintain 11-speed systems, electronic and wireless shifters, disc brakesCyclocross: How to set up a ’cross bike for racing, select the right components, and make quick repairsTroubleshooting: How to figure out what’s wrong with any bike and fix it
Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance makes bicycle repair and maintenance easy, quick, affordable, and fun. With Zinn at your side, you’ll know how to keep your bicycling running smoothly for years.
What’s New in Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance, 5th Ed.:
More than 700 comprehensive illustrations and exploded views.New chapter on electronic shifting covers maintenance, service, repair, and troubleshooting of all Shimano, SRAM, and Campagnolo electronic shifting groups.New chapter on disc brakes covers maintenance, service, and repair of all hydraulic and mechanical systems.New tech covered in depth: through-axle forks, SRAM eTap wireless shifting, second generation Shimano and Campagnolo electronic shifting, direct-mount sidepull brakes, SRAM X-Sync 1×11 cyclocross systems, tubular tire gluing tapes.New troubleshooting chartsNew master guide to press-fit bottom bracketsAlso covered in the 5th edition: All derailleur shifting systems (5-speed through 11-speed); all bottom bracket systems (cone-and-cup through press-fit); all brake systems (including caliper, V-brake, cantilever, and disc); all headset, stem, handlebar and fork systems; wheelbuilding for all bikes including cyclocross and disc-brake wheels; special sections on cyclocross throughout including troubleshooting, maintenance, service, repair, and equipment selection; updated and expanded torque tables; complete illustration index and complete subject index.
Publisher : VeloPress; 5th edition (July 7, 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 488 pages
ISBN-10 : 193771537X
ISBN-13 : 978-1937715373
Item Weight : 2.9 pounds
Dimensions : 8.5 x 1.1 x 11 inches
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Customers find the book thorough, with clear and concise diagrams. They also describe the writing style as engaging and plain.
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Raleigh man –
Well organized, well-illustrated collection of road bike know-how reviews help prevent bad purchases
Update 7-2-2018: First, before reading my review of this book you need a little perspective on the review writer. I was a total novice who could not have pointed to a cog or a chaining on my very own bike. It is amazing to me that any book could lift me out of bicycle ignorance and place me solidly on a path to knowing my bike.My goal of becoming knowledgeable about my 23-speed Tommaso road bike is too much for my old brain to grasp quickly so Iâm finding this well organized, well-illustrated collection of road bike know-how to be a near-perfect resource for me.So far, after a quick scan of this impressive paperback, I have found two gold nuggets. One is the section called PRERIDE INSPECTION in the chapter named BASIC STUFF (Ch. 2) in which 16 steps are provided for making sure your road bike is road ready before heading out for that long trail ride. The second is the entire chapter 5, which is titled CABLE-ACTUATED SHIFTING SYSTEMS. Knowing how to adjust the shifting system for optimal performance is almost as critical to me as braking but far more mysterious.After having studied just these two sections of the book, it is clear to me this book is a real find and an excellent value (at just over ten bucks) for anyone using a bike with cable-actuated gearing.—original review—I am starting my rating at three stars even though it has not arrived yet because I am disappointed that it is not available in digital form. Digital format facilitates searches, and I anticipate searching for terms a lot in this book. Digital also facilitates readers with vision issues. But after the resoundingly positive reviews, I look forward to making this the center piece of my new bike repair library.
Brian Johnson –
Complete bike maintenance guide
Very well written bike maintenance guide.Easy to read. Easy to find and follow maintenance topics.I ordered a second and gave to a neighbor bike enthusiast.
Robert L. Cochran –
Excellent Quality, A Must-Have For Anyone Wanting to Maintain Bicycles
This is an excellent book with its many and beautiful exploded drawings of the different mechanisms in a bicycle, and the high quality, well-written text descriptions of these mechanisms and how to properly service them. I find that Zinn is better than the Big Blue Book when you need to get good exploded drawings and text descriptions. The paper binding is far superior to the Blue Book. The coverage of road bicycles and their components is overall of excellent quality. Some things I would like to see in this book: new editions every 2 years. There could be coverage of “gravel bikes” for example. A chapter on the differences between low-end bicycles, mid-range bicycles, and high-end bicycles. A video series similar to the Park Tool series on bike maintenance and repair which could perhaps reference chapters in the book.
DaisyGirl –
Not An Easy Read but Certainly Concise
I bought this for my husband. He rides a hybrid but he can still use almost all of this book to help with maintenance and repairs on his bike. This is a very thick and heavy book with a lot of information in it. Think of going to the car parts store and seeing those big thick books that you have to thumb through to find you part number. It felt like that to me but with instructions and tips as well. Certainly not an easy read but very concise and it’s organized and broken down and fairly easy to find what you need inside. He hasn’t used it yet but he feels confident there will be helpful instructions and ideas inside when he needs it.
Dan M. –
More than anyone should know about road bikes.
All I can say is wow, this guy knows his stuff when it comes to bikes. Helped immensely with my overhaul on an old bike so I could get back into riding my bike. I literally tore my old bike down piece by piece, cleaned and repaired what I could and replaced many parts that had too much wear. This book has so much detail and great pictures that I didnât have any stress at all during the rebuild. Used to be stressed working on a bike but this book answered any question I could have had without having to consult a bicycle mechanic. Without it I could have never successfully ordered the right parts the first try. Actually has more info than I could even need.
Lance D. Classen –
This book is a MUST for shade tree bike mechs. Easy to follow and understand. Very well written.
I can not say enough how great this book it. Worth double what you pay on AMAZON. Using just this book I have built 2 of my dream bikes. One Lynskey Sportive, and a SOMA FogCutter gravel bike. The Lynskey is a Shimano compact 11sp and the gravel/commuting bike is a SRAM 1×11 set up. Both are disk brakes. I read thru this to assist me in picking parts, making adjustments, and I have photocopied out specific pages with torque requirements that I go back to often when doing re-greases or other services. If you have just a normal level of mechanical ability and are able to follow instructions that have pictures for reference then you will love being your own mechanic. For shade tree bike mechs this book is for US!
AmaPhot –
Good and Instructive Book
I have borrowed a previous edition of this book from my public library several times over the past year. I was waiting for the newest edition (5th) to be released before buying my very own. I’m still very much a beginner when it comes to any sort of bike repair/maintenance. I have been able to learn some basic maintenance skills to cut down on trips to my local bike shop. The book describes the basic tools one should have for their own use and seeing as it has been a little bit of buying a tool only when absolutely needed, I can stay within my budget. This book is easy to use and organized so that it’s fairly simple to find exactly what you’re looking for. It’s instructions are clear and the illustrations are quite helpful. If I use this in conjunction with some of the instruction videos found on YouTube, it helps me to feel more confident in gradually improving my mechanic skills.
Owen Kobasz –
Incredible Resource !
This book has an incredible amount of info! I had been using youtube to learn how to fix my bikes, but this book is an incredible companion with lots of info well organized and layer out. The illustrations are also wonderful and add another dimension for visual learners like myself.
Oils and Pencils –
Great book. Great resource
Marcelo R. T. Fontenelle –
Livro excelente. O autor passa a informação de forma muito prática e precisa. Não é apenas um método, é um aprofundamento total no assunto.
scjvc –
El libro contiene información vasta e importante para llevar a cabo el mantenimiento de una bicicleta, por alguien que tiene nulo conocimiento de la materia. Desde que herramientas usar hasta como llevar a cabo los pasos para ejecutar el trabajo.
tarot lover –
This book is written in an easily accessible style, with plenty of useful illustrations and loads of helpful adviceI’m new to bike maintenance, but I look forward to referring to this book in the months and years ahead
Vincent –
Order a new book, but it arrived damaged. :(The package was ok, it’s how it fit inside the package that deteriorated it. Corners turned. A bit sad.