Zinn & The Art Of Mountain Bike Maintenance.

419 Pages·2005·52.67 MB·English

LENN ARD ZINN
ZINN & THE ART OF
t1DUNTAIN BIKE
t1AINTENANCE

ZINN & HE TD
t10UNTAIN BIKE
t1AINTENANCE
4th Edition
LENNARD ZINN
Illustrated by Todd Telander
BOULDER, COLORADO
Zinn & the Art ofM ountain Bike Maintenance, 4"' Edition
© 2005 Lennard Zinn
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Zinn, Lennard.
Zinn & the art of mountain bike maintenance / Lennard Zinn ; illustrated by Todd
Telander. - 4th ed.
p.cm.
Rev. ed of Zinn and the art of mountain bike maintenance. c1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-931382-59-X (paper)
1. All terrain bicycles-Maintenance and repair. I. Title: Zinn & the art of mountain
bike maintenance. II. Zinn, Lennard. Zinn & the art of mountain bike maintenance. III.
Title.
TL430.Z56 2001
629.28'772-dc21 2001035854
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Cover design by Kristina Kachele
Interior design and composition by Erin Johnson
Cover photo by Don Karle, bike built by Lennard Zinn.
To Sonny, my wife,
without whose support this book
could not have been }'Vritten;
or at least a few more decades
would have passed before
it got done.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ................................................................ 1
CHAPTERS
1 Tools ...................................................................... 11
2 Basic stuff: Preride inspection, wheel removal, and general cleaning ................ 23
3 Emergency repairs: How to get home when something big breaks or you get hurt .... 3 7
4 Chains .................................................................... 53
5 Transmission: Front and rear derailleurs, cables, and shifters ....................... 67
6 Wheels: Tires, rims and spokes, hubs, cassettes, and freewheels .................... 103
7 Brakes: Cables, levers, and calipers ............................................ 135
8 Cranks and bottom brackets ................................................. 183
9 Pedals .................................................................... 203
1D Saddles and seatposts ....................................................... 221
11 Handlebars, stems, and headsets .............................................. 233
12 Wheel building ............................................................ 267
13 Forks .................................................................... 287
14 Frames ................................................................... 323
15 Cycling computers ......................................................... 345
APPENDIXES
A Troubleshooting index ...................................................... 351
B Gear development ......................................................... 359
C Mountain bike fitting ....................................................... 363
D Torque table .............................................................. 3 73
E Pedal and cleat compatibility ................................................ 391
Glossary .................................................................. 395
Bibliography .............................................................. 403
illustration index .......................................................... 405
Index .................................................................... 409
About the author .......................................................... 421

A TIP OF E H
My heartfelt thanks go out to Todd Telander, whose illustrations made the procedures more intelligible and
beautiful; to my editors and in-house support system, Charles Pelkey and Mark Saunders, for separating the
wheat from the chaff and adding more wheat when necessary; to Terry Rosen, for bugging me to write this
book for so many years; to Mike Sitrin, formerly ofVeloPress, for doing the same and promising to publish the
first edition when I did; to Felix Magowan and John Wilcockson of Inside Communications for their vision,
financial support and encouragement; to John Muir and Robert Pirsig, for writing such great books to encour
age this effort. Special thanks to Erin Johnson for making it look beautiful, and to VeloPress for the countless
efforts to improve it.
For technical assistance with the details, thanks to Wayne Stetina, Steve Hed, Ken Beach, and to Scott, John, and
Rusty at Louisville Cyclery (Louisville, Colorado), as well as to folks at Shimano, RockShox, Manitou, Cane
Creek, Hayes, Avid, ITM, 3T, Cinelli, Deda, Easton, Salsa, Mavic, Selle San Marco, Cannondale and Ritchey.
Thanks go especially to Portia Masterson of Self Propulsion in Golden, Colorado, for her suggestions for the
second edition and to Charlie Hancock, Sander Rigney, Doug Bradbury and Chris DiStefano for assistance
with the third edition.
I also want to thank my entire family for all of their support and inspiration: Emily and Sarah, my daughters,
for showing me that books can be written, completed, and published at a prolific rate; Dad and Mom, for
encouraging me my whole life; Rex and Steve, for their suggestions; Kai, Ron, and Dad, for being authors them
selves and an inspiration to me; and Marlies, for taking the kids when I needed it. Thanks, Sarah, for proving
Groucho Marx right.