MTB maintenance manuals

[moles]

Can anyone recommend a good book on bike maintenance. Looking for a Haynes type manual for bikes?. Also do any manufacturers have service manuals or is it all generic?. (I have a Cube but cannot find anything)

[mk1fan]

err... Try the Haynes one.

Or The Blue Book by Park.

Zen and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance.

Amazon search with give you plenty to choose from.

[moles]

Which ones are any good though have read mixed reports on the Haynes one.

[gbbird]

Zinn and the Art............. is very good IMHO. It helped me build x2 MT bikes from scratch, with limited previous MTB maintenance experience

Edited by gbbird on Sunday 29th March 09:52

[mk1fan]

The Park book is the daddy - although can feel a touch patronising if you're reasonably competant. Individual sections are available from the Park website too.

Edited by mk1fan on Monday 30th March 13:43

[moles]

OK will have a gander. Thanks

[BOR]

Here's the link for Cube tech documents. Only in german, I'm afraid. If you have a specific request, I'll try to help.

http://www.cube-bikes.de/xist4c/web/Bedienungsanle...

[moles]

Cheers BOR.

[Jimbo.]

I can't recommend the Zinn book highly enough. As sad as it is to admit, it's an utter joy to read and ever better to follow. Not patronising, not "over yer' head" technical, explains things nicely, have excellent diagrams and covers everything you'd ever need to know.

[stewies_minion]

I've got a copy of Zinn. I'm woefully inept at fixing my bikes - but the book is thorough and not at all patronising.

[Chris_w666]

I can recommend the park book, I am a total bike numpty and can now do things I would have previously paid someone to do and that is after only a few minutes looking at it. I get the feeling I could do much more if I had to and followed it carefully.

[LRdriver II]

problem is that alot of books get outdated by the time they get published. Technology moves so damn quickly that the books cant cover each manufacturers procedures. I have the haynes book and it has most of the newer stuff in it (the revised 5th edition?) so its OK.. but I have to go to the manufacturers websites to get the detailed servicing instructions (SRAM have alot of their stuff as how-to videos on youtube, and Hope have on their website)

[anniesdad]

I can also recommend the Park book. I'm no bike expert (my bike experience until recently, was all single speed BMX back in the day) but am now reasonably competent at the more regular maintenance but still have the shop(s) do the harder stuff. I really enjoy getting out into the garage, fiddling with the bikes.

[mk1fan]

Once you uinderstand the basics and if you have a mechanical mind then there's not an arwful lot of things that you can't figure out. Internals of suspension units aside.