Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance: The World's Best-Selling Bicycle Repair and Maintenance Guide

A very comprehensive, informative and well laid-out guide that provides diagrams of each mechanism in a 'Haynes Manual'-style format that is both well labeled, easy to read, understand, and refer to whilst reading or tinkering. There is an introductory section listing and explaining all the tools it recommends for the level of work you want to undertake yourself (depending on your budget, workspace and commitment). I'm confident that once I invest in the correct tools and invest my time in following these guides, I'll be gratuitously proficient in bike mechanics and confident in my aspiration to cycle to Greece without crying. FYI, there are 465 pages, its rather dense. Includes sections on wheel-building and even on-the-go kit recommendations!

Great book with index to find quick info about servicing and maintaining road bikes.

As a beginner in doing my own bike maintenance, I felt I needed a thorough book that would cover all possibilities, but wasn't too technical. This seems the ideal blend, with plenty of information, lots of diagrams, and easy-to-understand text. Any words or terms I didn't understand are explained in other parts of the book. There is a comprehensive index, and a section on basic tasks such as all-over cleaning and checking of brakes, chain, etc., as well as much more on complicated tasks. My only problem with it isn't really the book's fault, as the gear system on my bike isn't included in this particular one, because I think I have what's called a "hybrid" bike. I may need to get the Zinn book on that type to get the information I need. Otherwise, a very good purchase!

This book is written in an easily accessible style, with plenty of useful illustrations and loads of helpful advice I'm new to bike maintenance, but I look forward to referring to this book in the months and years ahead

Bought as a Christmas present for my partner and he was glued to it for most of Christmas day. He says it's an excellent, informative book and can't wait to put some of its advice to good use.

Given the lock-down status of the country I thought it would be a good time to start looking at maintaining my by myself rather than always relying on others. I bought this book as a guide to the parts I know nothing about and, so far, it's very impressive. It's not a book that just covers the basics, plus there seems to be sections for all the different options for brake set ups, groupsets, etc. Impressive.

This book has helped me easily resolve some issues with my new bike and given me the confidence and know-how to keep it running smoothly. I dont have much mechanical experience, and I now feel confident I can give just about any job a go and select the right parts and tools for the job. That is everything I was looking for in this book, so I really cant fault it.

This book is great. Easy to follow, great illustrations and comprehensive instructions. The difficulty system allows you to decide if you're able to embark on the task or not. As a relative maintenance novice, I've found this book really useful so far and I rarely have to use the services of a shop now. Covers everything from simple gear indexing to complete overhauls.

Anzitutto una cosa: è semplicemente vergognoso come un testo di questa importanza (importanza relativamente al settore ciclistico, chiaramente) non trovi modo di essere edito in lingua italiana, paese che notoriamente vanta una fortissima tradizione ciclistica ed un alto numero di appassionati. Speriamo che qualche casa editrice del nostro paese ci faccia un pensiero... Il testo in sé è semplicemente fantastico per tre motivi: completezza, chiarezza nell'esposizione (sia del testo che delle immagini) e capacità di andare a costruire una curva d'apprendimento tra i vari interventi di manutenzione, mettendo sempre in evidenza il grado di difficoltà e gli effettivi miglioramenti ottenibili. Forse non vi ritroverete a poter fare tutto ma, qualora abbiate una certa dimestichezza, vi accorgerete come l'impossibilità di compiere certe operazioni vi sarà data prevalentemente dalla mancanza di specifici attrezzi e – in ogni caso – vi sarà utile valutare l'effettiva laboriosità anche degli interventi che non andrete a compiere per poter valutare se l'esborso richiestovi dal vostro meccanico di riferimento sia giustificato o meno. L'inglese utilizzato non è troppo elaborato, ma è utile comunque avere un dizionario inglese (o la vostra app di fiducia) sempre a portata di mano in modo da permettervi di superare la difficolta maggiore e cioè imparare quei 40/50 termini ricorrenti che riguardano attrezzi e componenti meccanici della vostra due ruote. Ottimo regalo per gli appassionati dal momento che oltre ad essere ben fatto è anche parecchio "consistente": ben 465 pagine (si veda l'ultima delle immagini che ho caricato).

It is almost a complete guide to repair and maintenance. But no 100% . Still have simple information not available. For example how to remove your pedal from the bike. Anyway love it. If yu looking for road bike book than this is the bike's bible for you .

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.

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 I’m 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.

Einfach das Standardwerk wenn es um Reparaturen geht. Alles ist einfach erklärt, die Abbildungen sind gut und das Buch deckt die ganze Palette von Rennrädern ab, vom neusten Carbonflitzer zum klassischen Stahlrahmen