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 to repair new and old mountain bikes, alongside everything from guidelines on wheel size selection for your frame size, suspension settings, and travel to procedures for mounting and sealing tubeless tire systems and more. Over 500 pages and more than 750 hand-drawn illustrations and exploded-parts diagrams show just the right level of detail to lead you through every mountain bike repair task, including:
- 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, and bottom brackets
- New tech: How to maintain 1x-speed systems, electronic, and wireless shifters and complete info on the new 11-speed and SRAM 12-speed drivetrains
- Troubleshooting: How to figure out what’s wrong with any bike and fix it
This seventh edition of Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance also features:
- An expanded list of tools and how to use them, including a Click Valve pump head, hydraulic-brake bleed kit, barb installer, chain-waxing equipment, and more
- Updated methods for determining chain length, including from the SRAM app and calculating it
- New information on tubeless tires, including how to use a tubeless tire pump and inserts and ways to plug holes in tubeless tires
- Instruction on SRAM Eagle AXS 12-speed wireless electronic shifting systems and SRAM T-Type (a.k.a. Full Mount) rear derailleurs
- Guidance on bike chain maintenance, including Immersive chain waxing, using three-prong chain-elongation gauges to more accurately assess chain wear, and other methods for determining chain length
- And so much more!
This guide 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.
