Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance

The World's Best-Selling Bicycle Repair and Maintenance Guide

Lennard Zinn

• Publisher: VeloPress
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781646046614
• Subtopic: Mechanics

Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is the world’s best-selling guide to bicycle repair and maintenance.

From basic repairs like how to fix a flat tire to advanced overhauls of drivetrains and brakes, Lennard Zinn’s clearly illustrated guide makes every bicycle repair and maintenance job easy for everyone.

Lennard Zinn is the world’s leading expert on bike maintenance and repair. His friendly step-by-step guide explains the tools you’ll need and how to know you’ve done the job right. The book’s interior is easy to read, even in a dimly-lit garage or workshop. Hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations and exploded parts diagrams show just the right level of detail to lead you through every bicycle repair task.

This smartly organized guide shows how to repair new and old bicycles from top to bottom. In over 500 pages, Zinn’s guide includes simple instructions for hundreds of bike maintenance and repair jobs:

• 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, bottom brackets
• New tech: How to maintain 11-speed systems, electronic and wireless shifters, disc brakes
• Cyclocross: How to set up a ’cross bike for racing, select the right components, and make quick repairs
• Troubleshooting: How to figure out what’s wrong with any bike and fix it

Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance 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.

What’s New in Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance, 5th Ed.:

• More than 700 comprehensive illustrations and exploded views.
• New chapter on electronic shifting covers maintenance, service, repair, and troubleshooting of all Shimano, SRAM, and Campagnolo electronic shifting groups.
• New chapter on disc brakes covers maintenance, service, and repair of all hydraulic and mechanical systems.
• New tech covered in depth: through-axle forks, SRAM eTap wireless shifting, second generation Shimano and Campagnolo electronic shifting, direct-mount sidepull brakes, SRAM X-Sync 1x11 cyclocross systems, tubular tire gluing tapes.
• New troubleshooting charts
• New master guide to press-fit bottom brackets
• Also covered in the 5th edition: All derailleur shifting systems (5-speed through 11-speed); all bottom bracket systems (cone-and-cup through press-fit); all brake systems (including caliper, V-brake, cantilever, and disc); all headset, stem, handlebar and fork systems; wheelbuilding for all bikes including cyclocross and disc-brake wheels; special sections on cyclocross throughout including troubleshooting, maintenance, service, repair, and equipment selection; updated and expanded torque tables; complete illustration index and complete subject index.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• A Tip of the Helmet To…
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Tools
• Chapter 2: Basic Stuff
• Chapter 3: Emergency Repairs
• Chapter 4: The Chain
• Chapter 5: Cable-Actuated Shifting Systems
• Chapter 6: Electronic Shifting Systems
• Chapter 7: Tires
• Chapter 8: Wheels
• Chapter 9: Rim Brakes
• Chapter 10: Disc Brakes
• Chapter 11: Cranks and Bottom Brackets
• Chapter 12: Stems, Handlebars, and Headsets
• Chapter 13: Pedals
• Chapter 14: Saddles and Seatposts
• Chapter 15: Wheelbuilding
• Chapter 16: Forks
• Chapter 17: Frames
• Appendix A: Troubleshooting Index
• Appendix B: Gear Chart
• Appendix C: Road Bike Fitting
• Appendix D: Glossary
• Appendix E: Torque Table
• About the Author
• About the Illustrators
• Bibliography
• Index
• Illustration Index
• Copyright