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

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This maintenance guide for cyclists of all levels looks beyond the bike to address the cyclist's body and ways to maximize both.

  • Author: Lennard Ainn
  • Softcover; 218 pages; black-and-white photographs
  • Velo Press; copyright 2004
  • Fifty topics can be individually consulted or built upon for a richer understanding of the relationship between bike and rider
  • Covering all aspects from road and mountain bike to triathlon, this guide is divided into the following subjects
  • Setup: Position and particulars for every component from the saddle to the cranks
  • Fine-Tuning the Body: Improving nutrition, understanding fitness and performance indicators and strength training
  • Road Skills: How to corner, climb, descend, counter steer, dress and race
  • Mountain Bike Skills: Starting with the basics and moving on to technical climbing and descending
  • Road Maintenance and Tuning: Changing cranks, gluing on tubular tires, fine-tuning Ergopower and aerodynamic equipment
  • Mountain Bike Maintenance and Tuning: Dealing with tubeless tires, brake setup, twisted grips, disc brakes, rotors and suspension
  • Everyday Skills to Take care of Your Bike: Lessons in shims, bike geometry, changing tubes, tightening bolts and improving chains

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      Comments about Zinn's Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building For Cyclists:

      If your like me, you probably charge out and push hard with a "of course I know what I'm doing" and "how hard could it be" attitude. Then at some point your joints start hurting, and you go hmm, do I know what I'm doing. When this happened to me it occurred to me I should go back the the basics, Zinn's book gives you an excellent out line of all the basics, about tuning your bike, and body.

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      Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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