is there a good book that describes all of the functional components of a mb and what they do, what are the differences in quality, etc? i know zinn's has bike mantainence, but does it have this? is there a good book that i can pick up that will tell me about all of these parts? thanks guys.

is there a good book that describes all of the functional components of a mb and what they do, what are the differences in quality, etc? i know zinn's has bike mantainence, but does it have this? is there a good book that i can pick up that will tell me about all of these parts? thanks guys.

I've got the Zinn book and Bicycling's Complete Guide to Maintanance. They both seem pretty good, although most of everything I've learned is by doing it.

is there a good book that describes all of the functional components of a mb and what they do, what are the differences in quality, etc? i know zinn's has bike mantainence, but does it have this? is there a good book that i can pick up that will tell me about all of these parts? thanks guys.

...with all that. You're going to need to cobble together a whole host of sources for that info, including Sheldon Brown's site, FAQ's like Mike T.'s, manufactuere's sites and forums such as this. Especially with the rate at which product lines evolve, it'd be tough to put that all in print and 10x as tough to keep it current.

...You're going to need to cobble together a whole host of sources for that info, including Sheldon Brown's site, FAQ's like Mike T.'s
f*nætik,

Do you have any links?

Thanks,
Crash

Do you have any links?

Sure:

www.sheldonbrown.com
http://www.execulink.com/~dtierney/wmc/faq.htm
http://www.angryasian.com/
www.parktool.com
and of course www.google.com

and of course www.google.com

Sorry, :rolleyes: I actually googled right after I posted and found Mike T's and this one on chain suck, http://www.fagan.co.za/Bikes/Csuck/ . Thanks for the additional posts.

Don’t you think it would be extremely helpful to pin a thread listing all of these links and any others that deal with wrenching to the top of the Tooltime forum?

Sorry, :rolleyes: I actually googled right after I posted and found Mike T's and this one on chain suck, http://www.fagan.co.za/Bikes/Csuck/ . Thanks for the additional posts.

Don't forget to use Google's "Images" and "Groups" tabs. You will find some very useful and/or unexpected and/or odd stuff.

The Zinn book is very good and has a lot of the same info as the Barrnett's shop manual set but not in as much detail. The barrnett's set is awesome if you are going to get serious about working on bikes. It's available at Colorado Cyclist and some other places.

I've got the Zinn book and Bicycling's Complete Guide to Maintanance. They both seem pretty good, although most of everything I've learned is by doing it.


I've heard lots of good about Zinn's books (both road and mtn). I have some Amazon gift certs, so they'd essentially be free (though that would mean I wouldn't get anything else with the gift certs). But I already have the Bicycling Mag book. Are the Zinns books enough better than the other one that it'd still be worth getting?