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Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance Paperback – 1 May 2005
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- Print length378 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVeloPress
- Publication date1 May 2005
- Dimensions21.54 x 2.69 x 28.35 cm
- ISBN-109781931382595
- ISBN-13978-1931382595
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- ASIN : 193138259X
- Publisher : VeloPress; 4th edition (1 May 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 378 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781931382595
- ISBN-13 : 978-1931382595
- Dimensions : 21.54 x 2.69 x 28.35 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 1,028,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 220 in Mountain & Off-Road Cycling
- 332 in How to Cycle
- 399 in Motorcycle Repair & Performance
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About the author

Lennard 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 and bike designer, Lennard is also the technical writer for VeloNews magazine and Singletrack.com and hosts the popular Q&A column on VeloNews.com. His other 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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I've purchased this book as there were some maintenance tasks I wanted to carry out on my road bike, the book itself is a good broad guide to road bike repair and maintenance and covers all maintenance tasks that most home mechanics would like to carry out.
Since buying this book I found I had a few tasks I wanted to do on my mountain bike so I bought the mountain bike book, unfortunately having got this book I'm finding that there is lots of duplication between the two books and not enough detail on some of the topics I would like to see in a mountain bike book which would be things like maintaining suspension shocks which is covered but very briefly for a few specific types.
If you already have the road bike edition then searching online is probably better than buying the mountain bike book, however what I would like to see would be a "Zinn and the complete book of bike maintenance" which covers both road and mountain.
The binding of the book and the paper it's printed on are lovely quality too - that perhaps doesn't matter to most of us, but I'd expect it to handle years of heavy use without it falling apart.
I read some negative reviews on amazon - I'd say that different people prefer different ways of presenting information and of course this book will not suit everyone, but I would say it will suit the vast majority of people out there looking for the best in road bike maintenance guides. Simply one of the best reference books I own.
One small gripe; it's rather too clumpy to schlepp round France on an extended tour, but then that would mean editing out stuff or reducing the format and therefore print size and we don't want either really!
Also, these books cover all components both new and old. E.g. pedals look at the latest carbon trickster ones, and old cup/ball bearign ones... and everything in between. The maintenance techniques range from basic to advanced....
Wonderful.
This has helped me reset my rear mech, bleed my breaks, check for chain wear, suspension set up and loads of general maintenance. A really first class book, that after 2 years of ownership is now covered in oily finger prints.. I love this book.











