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

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.64
EAN: 9781931382434
ISBN: 1931382433
Label: VeloPress
Manufacturer: VeloPress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: June 16, 2004
Publisher: VeloPress
Studio: VeloPress
Sales Rank: 439579




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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.




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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A must for the tool box library
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.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Great bicycle book for beginners and experts
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 ... Read More



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