Mountain Bike Performance Handbook (Bicycle Books) [Paperback]

Lennard Zinn (Author)

Book Description

Series: Bicycle Books | Publication Date: October 23, 1998

Get the most out of every component on your mountain bike with expert tips from cycling guru Lennard Zinn! For every component employed on a mountain bike, there are dozens of alternative parts available to improve or alter its function. Zinn discusses those alternatives, and offers strategies for updating, improving, altering and tuning those components. Offers the pros and cons of all modifications, and discusses both existing as well as replacement components.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: MBI (October 23, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933201958
• ISBN-13: 978-0933201958
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,885,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get Your Bike In Shape!, March 31, 2000

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Rev. R. J. Pooch - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mountain Bike Performance Handbook (Bicycle Books) (Paperback)

Riding the rough terrain can put your mountain bike out of commission fast, especially without optimal adjustments for off-road activity. That's why Zinn's Handbook is seen on so many bicycling and ATB enthusiasts' shelves.

The Handbook provides clear, easy to understand directions covering everything from grips to shocks, and it has plenty of helpful illustrations.

If you are like most extreme mountain bicyclists and want maximum performance and enjoyment from your experience, this Handbook will prove to be an invaluable resource and starting point.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Poor-quality edition, July 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Mountain Bike Performance Handbook (Bicycle Books) (Paperback)

I have no complaints with the content of the book and would give it five stars for that alone, but the poor quality of the printing and binding is astonishing.

The point size of the characters is small, the ink incomprehensibly faint, and the text is packed far too close to the right and left margins to allow for comfortable reading since cracking the spine of the book to make it possible to read the text near the inside margins causes pages to fall out after only a few days of reading.

This is a terrible printing of a good book. I will probably tear out all the pages, punch holes in them and put them together with twine to make a somewhat more readable edition.

Zinn's other books have been printed in good paperback editions which are highly readable both in research (on your back) and active (spread out while working on your bike) mode. It would be welcome to see a similar quality edition of this book to appear.