Lennard Zinn

Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance (eBook, ePUB)

The World's Best-Selling Guide to Mountain Bike Repair

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 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 it

Zinn & 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. New in the 6th Edition:

• A 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.
• A 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.
• 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!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781646046607
• Artikelnr.: 68755269

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR
1 Tools
2 Basic Stuff: Preride Inspection, Wheel Removal, and General Cleaning
3 Emergency Repairs: How to Get Home When Something Big Breaks or You Get
Lost or Hurt
4 Chains
5 Cable-Shift Transmissions: Front and Rear Derailleurs, Cables, and
Shifters
6 Electronic Shifting Systems
7 Tires: Tires, Tubes, and Tubeless Tires
8 Wheels: Rims, Spokes, Hubs, Cassettes, and Freewheels
9 Disc Brakes
10 Rim Brakes: Cables, Levers, and Calipers
11 Cranks and Bottom Brackets
12 Handlebars, Stems, and Headsets
13 Pedals
14 Saddles and Seatposts
15 Wheelbuilding
16 Forks
17 Frames
APPENDIXES
A Troubleshooting Index
B Gear Development
C Mountain Bike Fitting
D Torque Table
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Index
About the Author and Illustrators