# Bike repair books?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bike-repair-books/190740>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 24, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bike-repair-books/190740 "2003-07-24T22:40:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bike-repair-books/190740/1 "2003-07-24T22:40:21Z")

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I’ve been riding fairly seriously now, but I am still sadly lacking on basic bike repair. I’m sick of hauling my bike 20 miles to the shop I bought it from just to get minor things done.

Can anyone recommend a good, basic repair book for me? I am not going to do major work, just simple easy things. Stuff like adjusting brakes and gears (getting rid of weird clicking noises in certain gears) stuff like that. And with good diagrams that name all the parts of a bike.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![kryptonite2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/85e7bf/32.png) [@kryptonite2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kryptonite2)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bike-repair-books/190740/2 "2003-07-24T22:42:53Z")

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zinn and the art of bike maintenance.

should be all you need (well, and some tools)

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bike-repair-books/190740/3 "2003-07-25T05:49:52Z")

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I second **kryptonite2** ’s recommmendation. I believe it comes in two versions, _Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maitenance_ and _…Road Bike Maintenance_. If you have a hybrid bike, you probably want the mountain bike version.

There are many good on-line resources too. [Sheldon Brown’s page](http://www.harriscyclery.com/) is probably the most famous. The [Park Tool](http://www.parktool.com/repair_help/index.shtml) also has detailed repair manuals.