Zinn's Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists (Paperback)

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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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: VeloPress; illustrated edition edition (June 16, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931382433
• ISBN-13: 978-1931382434
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #291,762 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great bicycle book for beginners and experts, August 11, 2004

By	C. P Ungermann - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mini cycling encyclopedia...., December 20, 2008

By	Charles L. Conn "Connfounded" (Ohio) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A must for the tool box library, February 22, 2008

By	William H. Barnard (Cantonment, Florida USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.