Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance

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The World's Best-Selling Bicycle Repair and Maintenance Guide

By Lennard Zinn

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Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is the world’s best-selling guide to bicycle repair and maintenance, authored by expert Lennard Zinn. This comprehensive and clearly illustrated manual covers everything from fixing a flat tyre to advanced overhauls of drivetrains and brakes. With over 500 pages, it offers step-by-step instructions for basic repairs, emergency fixes, wheel truing, new technology upkeep including electronic shifting and disc brakes, cyclocross bike setup, and detailed troubleshooting tips to keep any road bike running smoothly.
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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.

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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 tyre to advanced overhauls of drivetrains and brakes, Lennard Zinn's clearly illustrated guide makes every bicycle repair and maintenance job easy for everyone.

This smartly organised 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 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, bottom brackets
New tech: How to maintain 11-speed systems, electronic and wireless shifters, disc brakes
Cyclocross: How to set up a 'cross bike for racing, select the right components, and make quick repairs
Troubleshooting: 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781937715373

Publisher: VeloPress

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 February 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: VeloPress

Edition: 5th Revised edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 560

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About the Author

Lennard Zinn is the world's leading expert on bike maintenance and repair. He is a world-renowned bicycle technician, frame builder, and tech writer for VELO magazine and VeloNews.com.

Zinn was a member of the U.S. national racing team and has been riding and fixing bikes for nearly 50 years. A professional frame builder for his business Zinn Cycles, Lennard hosts the popular bike tech Q&A column on VeloNews.com.

His best-selling bike maintenance and repair books include Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance, Zinn & the Art of Triathlon Bikes, Zinn's Cycling Primer, The Mountain Bike Performance Handbook, and The Mountain Bike Owner's Manual. He lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.

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