Product Details

• Actors: Lennard Zinn
• Directors: TJ Walker
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Boombox
• DVD Release Date: December 1, 2005
• Run Time: 240 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000CC2GTY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,922 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance walks you through the complete spectrum of mountain bike maintenance and repair.

Lennard Zinn’s knack for teaching and his years of experience shine through as he concisely presents and explains each aspect of bike maintenance, breaking down each repair into easily repeatable steps.

Serving as a complete mountain bike repair instructional clinic, the flexibility of the DVD format also allows the viewer to quickly and easily access specific sections.

Topics cover all standard MTB maintenance as well as the most recent information on maintaining state-of-the-art mountain bike components including:

• Adjusting the latest derailleurs,

including Shimano's

Low Normal Dual Control
•Additional tools for recent
equipment
• Adjusting and
maintaining suspension forks
• Disc brake care and feeding
• Cartridge-style bottom brackets

and integrated-spindle cranks
• Crank Bros., Time and Shimano pedal

service and cleat adjustment
• Extensive rear suspension service and setup
• Torque specifications

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Zinn does it again! Another great instruction tool!, April 11, 2006

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Calef A. Letorney - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance (DVD)

When I got my first job at a bike shop, my boss handed me a copy of Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance and said "read this by next week." Lennard has been making bicycle maintenance instruction manuals for 11 years and has perfected teaching in a way that we can all understand. His latest teaching tool comes on DVD.

Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance (DVD) is a fully comprehensive manual for mountain bike maintenance, repair, and component installation. The material is presented in a manner that is clear and easy to understand in even in the most intricate procedures. This DVD is a wonderful introduction for the would be mechanic, acts as powerful reference tool before starting more complicated repairs, and is great way for solid mechanics to learn some of Lennard's many tricks.

If you ride frequently you have undoubtedly realized how expensive and inconvenient it is to bring your bike to a shop every time it needs servicing, which is arguably before every ride. For this reason many bike enthusiasts also become a do-it-yourself bike mechanic. There is no better way to familiarize yourself with the basics on how to keep your beloved steed running perfectly than to watch to Lennard explain it on this informative DVD.

Perhaps the most amazing aspect of this instruction manual is how Lennard breaks down even the most complicated repairs into step-by-step procedures that we can all understand. This enables intermediate mechanics to be confident with advanced procedures. Zinn overhauls a Shimano and Mavic hub, several different style headsets, and even a complicated Fox fork. I found the section on disc brakes quite helpful; Lennard bleeds a Shimano XT, Avid Juicy 7, Hayes El Camino, and Hayes Sole and Nine hydraulic disk brake. He also talks about how the job differs with other popular models. These are just a few of the repairs Lennard explains as the DVD does a very thorough job of covering every part of a mountain bike. In some sections there are even multiple explanations of the same job: one using basic tools and one that explains how to use the cool really ones that make life easy.

Zinn's new DVD doesn't replace or outdate his books, but instead complements them. Lennard suggests watching the relevant video sections before attempting unfamiliar repairs, then keeping the book handy for reference while you are working. In this way Lennard has created a multimedia-learning tool that is particularly effective for reaching people of all different learning styles.

I have been a professional mechanic for several years and still I learned a few things from Zinn's DVD. I liked it so much that I have lent it to several other mechanics at the shop; it gets two big thumbs up from me! My only question is: what's next? Maybe Zinn and The Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, book on CD?!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Starting out, October 8, 2007

By 

David A. Kanosh (Sitka, Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance (DVD)

What can I add that hasn't already been said earlier?

If you can get the book and the dvd. This has been a great introduction for myself as I wanted to learn how to best maintain my mountain bike. It has proven to be very accessible for even a beginner like myself and yet not feel like I'm being talked down to by the author.

I only recently bought this and already some of the maintenance & repairs I've done have saved some serious cash. Now as I walk into the local bicycle shop I know what I need for the tasks at hand.

For the maintenance and repairs I do now I save myself money and also I spare the time of the local bicycle mechanics by not taking it in for maintenance jobs I can now do. They have noted this and do appreciate it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not so great., April 21, 2008

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Alex Allias (08836) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance (DVD)

I can't believe the 5 star reviews this video got. On a lot of topics, I have found better information on youtube. On Some things the info is good like hydraulic brakes maintenance but overall this video was almost a complete disappointment. Most topics are not explained completely. Spend your money on a good book instead. If you are a true novice then you will enjoy the initial insight into things but if you have any experience with bikes you may be upset you spent money on this as I was. 3 stars because I did learn something.