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

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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. From basic repairs like how to fix a flat to advanced overhauls of drivetrains and brakes, Lennard Zinn’s clearly illustrated guide makes every bike 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 and parts you’ll need and how to know you’ve done the job right. The book’s two-color interior is easy to read―even 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 mountain bike repair task.This smartly organized guide shows how to repair new and old mountain bikes from top to bottom. In over 500 pages and more than 750 illustrations, Zinn’s guide includes simple instructions for hundreds of mountain bike maintenance and repair jobs:· Basics: How to fix a flat tire, 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 tire, 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 1x-speed systems, electronic and wireless shifters· Troubleshooting: How to figure out what’s wrong with any bike and fix itZinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance makes bicycle repair and maintenance easy, quick, affordable, and fun. With Zinn at your side, you’ll know how to keep your bicycle running smoothly for years.What’s New in Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, 6th Ed.:· New chapter on electronic shifting covers maintenance, service, repair, and troubleshooting of all Shimano electronic shifting groups. Also included: How to program your electronic shifting system for personalized shifting as well as real-time display and shift recording on a head unit.· New chapter on disc brakes covers maintenance, service, and repair of all hydraulic and mechanical systems. Includes integrated systems and their bleeding requirements.· New guides on how disc brake mounting adapters work and how to install them.· Complete info on the new 11-speed and SRAM 12-speed drivetrains.· Info on all the newest bottom brackets including 1x11 and 1x12 systems.· New guidelines on wheel size selection for your frame size, suspension settings, and travel.· New procedures for mounting and sealing tubeless tire systems.· New usage guidelines for flat-prevention sealants.· Updated guides on replacing press-in bottom brackets with thread-in bottom brackets.· New wheel lacing guidelines for building disc-brake compatible wheels.· More than 750 comprehensive illustrations and exploded views including 150 new or revised illustrations.· Updated and expanded guides on how to tune, rebuild, and maintain suspension forks and rear shocks. Includes tuning guides for preload, compression, rebound, and sag.· Updated and revised troubleshooting tables, torque tables, and gearing charts for 26”, 27.5”, and 29” bikes.· Also covered in the 6th edition: All derailleur shifting systems; all bottom bracket systems; all brake systems; all headset, stem, handlebar and fork systems; wheelbuilding for all bikes; updated and expanded torque tables; complete indexes of all illustrations and topics covered.Whether you’re riding a classic Stumpjumper or a carbon-fiber race machine, Zinn has got you covered! Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ VeloPress; 6th edition (July 7, 2023)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 504 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1937715477


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 72


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.54 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.14 x 11 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #19,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Bike Repair #1 in Cycling Travel Guides #3 in Mountain Biking


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  • Better than YouTube
This book will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about bicycle maintenance and repair, and a lot that you didn't know you needed to know. It's written in a clear and straightforward manner with hundreds of excellent illustrations that make it easy to visualize and understand even some of the more complex maintenance tasks. The information is easy to find thanks to a comprehensive index in the back, so you'll be able to locate what you need faster than doing an internet search, and working on a bike with a book at your side is a lot easier than it is trying to scroll through a website on your phone. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2024 by D.Zimmerman

  • loaded with information a good buy
I have been doing my own bike maintenance since I was in grade school... I had a different manual a couple decades ago, but I had not ridden in a li'l over a decade and just got a new (ish) bike. I now have things like hydraulic brakes, and dropper posts, so I figured it was time for a new maintenance manual. Zinn was one of the top rated manuals, so I figured I would grab it. WOW... Information overload. I am sure this book tells you almost everything you need to know to be a professional bike mechanic, but it can be a bit hard to find the exact piece of information you need when you need it. I do not feel it is the best organized, but that could just be my logic vs someone else's logic. no two brains work alike and all that. I needed to adjust the derailleur on my mountain bike when I bought it... I ended up going to the internet for the information I needed after finding EVERYTHING about derailleurs EXCEPT what I was looking for. <LOL> I am pretty sure after reading that section of the manual, I could make my own derailleur starting with how to mine the ore I need to make the metal to make a derailleur from scratch :) Seriously though, if you are JUST getting started, or if you have not done your own work in a LONG time <raises hand> this book can be a bit daunting, but it has the information you need... somewhere. My old bike was MUCH easier to maintain than my current one, but my "new" bike was a competition level bike a smidge over a decade ago when it was new... my old one had v-brakes, friction shifting, coil over non-adjustable rear shock... by the standards of when I rode it it was out dated, by todays standards it is seriously primitive. now I have hydraulic disk brakes, dropper post, pneumatic shocks, ratcheting shifter... in all bikes are much more complex than when last I worked on them... It is going to be a learning curve. I personally Recommend this book (or the road bike version if needed as there are separate versions for the different styles of bike) If you want EVERYTHING you could possibly need, consider these three books: Zinn and the art of... (of course I am going to recommend this book even with my comments above about information overload) Bicycling Magazine Complete book of Bicycle Maintenance and Repair (my old book) and Park Tools Big Blue Book (the professionals reference manual) ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2022 by Neon-Samurai

  • Great Book
Great book. Very useful. It is in plain English as well and its doesn't take an engineer to understand.
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2020 by John Curran

  • Bike repair
Easy to use bike repair
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2024 by Daniel

  • Awesome wealth of knowledge
Can’t beat this book. Everything you need to know to build the bike you want
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2023 by Amazon Customer

  • Written by a real master bicycle mechanic.
I heard this manual was good. Its better than that, its superb. Mr. Lennard Zinn is a master at his craft. I have bikes that are 30+ years old and a couple that are only a year or two old. This book covers everything. I am able to work on older retro components as well as the newest components. Lots of pictures and his explanations on how to achieve your goal of bike maintenance are excellent. Its written technically but in a way that anybody can understand. Mr. Zinn explains what can and cant be done by the everyday home bike mechanic as some things are better left for professionals who have the proper expensive tools. If you are so inclined to spend the money on those tools he tells you what to do to fix just about any bike issue short of actually repairing the frame. Wish I had this book sooner, I bought a couple other fair manuals but this is the Bicycle Repair Bible for everyday mechanics. Thank you Mr. Zinn. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2020 by Lightning Hopkins

  • This tear down and build bike book is the Bomb👍
Fat Bike Custom bike builder If you are or are not a professional bike builder And I Am A Professional fat bike builder this book is the most informative and practical with diagrams for everything from A to Z you will ever need it has from old school to the latest technology and how it goes together and tears down you will ever need I Highly recommend this book for people seriously considering building there own bikes fat bike road bike or mountain bike 👍👍👍😃 ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2021 by PMoretti PMoretti

  • Don't rely on just YouTube videos get this book
I wanted the book but figured I was wasting my money as I'd end up at a Youtube video in addition any way. I consider this book one of two essentials to doing even the most basic repairs. I'm the guys who hates tuning and repairing his bike because all I do is make it worse. No more! The inability to get a bike turned around for tuning and repair in a reasonable time (due to shop's demand and restrictions due to Covid) has driven me to doing the repairs and tuning on our household of 7 bikes. I was successful so far. I am very impressed with this book. So, buy this book if you are looking at it. Oh, and go buy the second essential item - a bike repair stand. I think the lower end $45 ones are worth it for even the most casual use. I'll never not own one again. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2020 by M. Ruminer

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