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Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, 7th Edition

The World's Best-Selling Guide to Mountain Bike Repair
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Join the millions of cyclists who swear by the name Zinn. Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance is the world's best-selling guide to the maintenance and repair of mountain bikes, hybrids, and fat bikes. Lennard Zinn is the world's leading expert on bike maintenance... Read More
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Join the millions of cyclists who swear by the name Zinn. Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance is the world's best-selling guide to the maintenance and repair of mountain bikes, hybrids, and fat bikes

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Join the millions of cyclists who swear by the name Zinn. Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance is the world's best-selling guide to the maintenance and repair of mountain bikes, hybrids, and fat bikes.

Lennard Zinn is the world's leading expert on bike maintenance and repair. His friendly step-by-step guide explains the tools and parts you'll need to repair new and old mountain bikes. It covers everything from guidelines on wheel size selection for your frame size, suspension settings, and travel, to procedures for mounting and sealing tubeless tyre systems and more.

Over 500 pages and more than 750 hand-drawn illustrations and exploded-parts diagrams show just the right level of detail to lead you through every mountain bike repair task, including:

  • Basics: How to fix a flat tyre, lube a bicycle chain, adjust the brakes
  • Emergency repairs: How to fix a broken chain, tighten loose spokes, repair a bent derailleur
  • Easy shifting: How to adjust shifters, derailleurs, and cables for clean and smooth shifting
  • Wheels: How to true a wheel, install a new tyre, change a cassette, replace broken spokes, build your own wheels
  • Overhauls: How to service and replace pedals, chains and chainrings, saddles, handlebars, stems, headsets, forks, and bottom brackets
  • New tech: How to maintain 1x-speed systems, electronic, and wireless shifters, and complete info on the new 11-speed and SRAM 12-speed drivetrains
  • Troubleshooting: How to figure out what's wrong with any bike and fix it

Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance makes bicycle repair and maintenance easy, quick, affordable, and fun. Whether you're riding a classic Stumpjumper or a carbon-fibre race machine, with Zinn at your side, you'll know how to keep your bicycle running smoothly for years.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781646048144

Publisher: Ulysses Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 November 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Ulysses Press

Edition: 7th New edition

Illustration: 520 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 520

About the Author

Lennard Zinn was a member of the US national cycling team and is a lifelong endurance athlete. He has reported on major stories for VeloNews for 30 years and is the author of the world's best-selling guide to bicycle maintenance and repair. Zinn has a degree in physics and has built custom bicycles for over 30 years.

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