Bicycling Magazine's Complete Guide to Bicycle Maintenance and Repair for Road and Mountain Bikes

It has helped me with both my Mt. Bike and Road Bikes. Great pictures help detail what you are working on. This book was suggested by my bike mechanic teacher and our manual. Good Choice.

I've just gotten a new bike, and this book was my bible along the rocky road to buying a bike. Technology's come a long way in the 15 years since I last bought a bike, and I was starting from nearly zero - I didn't know my top tube from my seat stay.This book covers the basics of what bicycle components are, what they do when they're working right, and how they can fail. I'm not someone who does a lot of "wrenching" on his own bike, but I found I needed to read this whole book in order to make an informed bike-buying decision. What do the tradeoffs between strength and lightness in wheelsets really mean with respect to your riding style? Do you need to go for the more expensive bottom bracket? (Probably not.) What's a 'headset', and why does it need to be covered up when you're transporting the bike on the back of a car?This book will answer all the questions you had about the makeup and operation of a bike, but more importantly, it'll answer the questions you didn't know enough to ask, and help you make the best-informed bike buying decision possible!

This is a very comprehensive resource for any cyclist. If you like to keep your machine in top shape you should have this in your shop.

Good book on the basics of bicycle maintenance. I you do your own bicycle maintenance you should consider this book.

Interesting chuck full of photos and instructions.Great value all around a winner.I'm a novice at bike repair it was great help for me learning what I needed to learn.buy it without remorse.

I expected some thing that was from the years of 2010 to the present about bikes instead I got something that was the year of 1999. the book looked like a story book not so many pictures.Doing something with your hands needs hands on, but over here the closest can be is learning through pictures.

bought for a young friend with a wife and kids who cycle with him. very complete and easy to understand.

This book might suffice if you've got an old bike, and need advice on something simple like cleaning, or tire replacement. But, if you're a do-it-yourselfer like me, who wants all the details, and maybe even some tips and tricks, this book falls pathetically short. Most of the components pictured look like they were late 80s vintage. There's little or no information on newer equipment. I've even found blatantly incorrect information. The "step by step" instructions jump around like they were written by someone in the late stages of Alzheimer's. You'd be better off trying to assemble a bike from scratch using only a picture of what it's supposed to look like when it's done!I recently built my own criterium bike from the bottom bracket up. This was my first attempt at bike building, so naturally, I had a lot of questions and needed step by step instructions. I went through just about every chapter of this book during the project, and found serious problems with nearly all of them. I spent more time trying to decipher the book than if I would have learned on my own by trial and error!Save yourself some money and a whole lot of headaches, and buy Zinn & The Art of Road (or Mountain) Bike Maintenance.

delivered on time and is just what I wanted.

Explained the modern bike well and explained in great detail how to repair and maintain. The instructions are easy to follow.