A complete guide to the sport and pastime, Zinn's Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists is for the novice and aficionado alike. The book includes routine bicycle maintenance tips, simple tricks to fix troublesome quirks, and tutorials to help increase cycling performance. The focus is on both learnable skills and understanding components and hardware. Specific units range from improving pedal stroke and building a disc brake rear wheel to setting up clip-in pedals and shoes and mastering technical uphills. Famous athletes and mechanics provide special insight, and accompanying photographs clearly illustrate each procedure. Aimed at road and mountain cyclists as well as triathletes, this book presents valuable information in a format that's fun and easy to grasp.
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Praise for Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance. "Whether someone is experienced at repairing bicycles or is just a weekend rider, this book includes everything to keep bikes rolling."
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Zinn is a bicycle framebuilder, a technical writer, avid cyclist and bike lover. He is the founder of Zinn Cycles, a company that produces custom road and mountain-bike frames and forks, and custom cycling apparel.
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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.
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Great bicycle book for beginners and experts,
This review is from: Zinn's Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists (Paperback)
Zinn's brand new book (2004) is must have in any bike enthusiast's library. Building on his excellent maintenance books, which go into every detail of fixing and tuning your bike, the cycling primer is abundant with tips and tricks to improve riding skills.
Ok, I ride a Zinn bike and might be biased but he is a competent author who used to race internationally and who explores unorthodox ways to cater for special needs of tall (and short) people. The book goes into great detail on how to properly fit a bike, tune it and a good overview on training techniques. I enjoyed reading it and will keep consulting it.
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Mini cycling encyclopedia....,
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Excellent reference volume for any cyclist. Nearly all aspects of biking including basic set-up, maintenance, physical conditioning,and honing riding skills are dealt with in "blocks" consisting of a few pages to full chapters. I find myself checking a section for a few minutes in the "library" and then rereading full chapters.
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Zinn's "Road Bike Maintenance" is a handy guide to maintaining any road bicycle. His experience in physiology, mechanics and science gives him a unique take on wrenching a bicycle. Very concise and detailed.
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mountain bike maintenance, chocolate foot, chain suck, ratchet ring, total training load, crank length, brake boss, compression damping, knee warmers, seat tube length, index gear, elastomer springs, rebound damping, steering tube, pelvic clock, toe overlap, pedaling style, pedal spindle, tire sealant, bike setup, base tape, gear chart, tire bead, lever body, rim strip Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tour de France, Andy Pruitt, Lance Armstrong, Fine-Tuning Your Body, Initial Setup, National Team, United States, Neal Henderson, Slam Position, Zinn's Cycling Primer, John Cobb, Eddy Merckx, Greg Herbold, John Dunn, Stan's No Tubes, The Feldenkrais Method, Tom Slocum, Hans Rey, Mammoth Lakes, Tour of Ireland New!
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There are many formulas out there for determining the position of your bike seat, and those are a great place to start. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mountain bike maintenance, chocolate foot, chain suck, ratchet ring, total training load, crank length, brake boss, compression damping, knee warmers, seat tube length, index gear, elastomer springs, rebound damping, steering tube, pelvic clock, toe overlap, pedaling style, pedal spindle, tire sealant, bike setup, base tape, gear chart, tire bead, lever body, rim strip Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tour de France, Andy Pruitt, Lance Armstrong, Fine-Tuning Your Body, Initial Setup, National Team, United States, Neal Henderson, Slam Position, Zinn's Cycling Primer, John Cobb, Eddy Merckx, Greg Herbold, John Dunn, Stan's No Tubes, The Feldenkrais Method, Tom Slocum, Hans Rey, Mammoth Lakes, Tour of Ireland New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Mountain Bike Performance Handbook (Bicycle Books) by Lennard Zinn on page 167, and Back Matter
- Bicycle Road Racing: The Complete Program for Training and Competition by Edward Borysewicz on page 49, and page 101
- Mountain Bike Like a Champion by Ned Overend on page 49, and page 117
- Triathlon Training Basics by Gale Bernhardt on page 33
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