Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance is the world's best-selling guide to mountain bike repair, service, upgrades, and maintenance.

For some people the Zinn series of books is already the maintenance manual of choice, so simply knowing that a new edition of Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is available will be sufficient: the book claims to be 'the world's best-selling bicycle repair and maintenance guide', so that should mean a lot of satisfied users just waiting for an updated version. Lennard Zinn's first book on road bike maintenance came out in 2000, with further editions following in 2005, 2009 and 2013. You can see that the books are being revised more frequently to keep pace with the increasing rate of technological developments. Mountain bikes and triathlon bikes have their own series of dedicated books, with cyclo-cross coming under the road title.

Not surprisingly, there will be common ground between each series, and this overlap seems to be growing: things like disc brakes and thru-axles have made it over to the road version, just as Di2 shifting technology will go the other way to the mountain bike version. The book claims to cover the newest technology, and does indeed include recent developments such as SRAM eTap; however, the very nature of such a book is that it starts to become out of date as soon as it is published, so there is no mention of the latest for example. The book also claims to be the 'most complete resource for DIY bike service', so when a friend came round with some new Shimano wheels I confidently reached for the book to show him how to adjust the hubs. Borderlands 2 steam activation key free. I am a great fan of the detailed line drawings that are used to such good effect here (perhaps because I used Richard's Bicycle Book in my formative years, which has a similar style), and knew that they would make the task so much easier to explain and understand.

However, to my surprise I could find no specific mention of the 'digital cone bearing adjustment system' used in recent Shimano hubs: it was not difficult to work it out, and a quick search online provided all the additional information required. I think you will be hard put to find many significant omissions – unless the technology in question is just too recent. This shows that while the book is probably the most comprehensive on the market and does its job very well, you might still need the internet for the complete picture – and of course for any occasion where video instruction is used. Equally, you would have to do a lot of work online to find as much valuable information as this book contains – and it won't be in such a convenient package. I looked to see if there was any useful advice on the challenge of removing Campagnolo Power Torque chainsets, as highlighted; as expected, there was. As well as explaining how to use the various specialist removal tools available, Zinn explains that 'in a pinch, to remove a Power Torque crank without the right tools simply unscrew the left bottom-bracket cup with a C-shaped, splined wrench. The left arm will come off'.

The book is full of helpful workarounds like that, for when you are not working in ideal conditions with the ideal equipment. Fans of Campagnolo equipment often cite the ability to overhaul Ergopower levers as a key advantage over the competition, and the nine pages given over to the disassembly and reassembly of every generation of lever will help you to take advantage of that opportunity. In contrast, detractors of Shimano equipment always question whether the non-serviceability of STI levers is a price worth paying for the slick performance.