What bike repair manuals/books does /n/ recommend. I prefer having a psychical book I can reference while I'm working on my bike instead of fiddling with my phone, stopping and playing a random youtube video. Is picrel any good?
That looks like it was printed before indexed shifting, you'd be better off buying a printer and printing the entire Sheldon Brown site and binding it in a binder.
>Stupid faggots on /n/ need guides on how to fix bicycles. The easiest of vehicles to maintain.You people really do belong on /toy/.
>>2063027I saw this, it looks good. I also saw Haynes do one, I thought that was interesting because I know them for there car manuals.>>2063030You're right they're easy to maintain and diagnose, like it's very visual if something goes wrong. I mainly just want a book for reference and for the bit more technical things like adjusting all the gears so they're smooth.
>>2063025Taking shit apart and putting it back together. Not mindless disassembly and reassembly -- when something doesn't work, stop, think "What do I even want this thing to do?" and take it apart one stage, see if messing with it achieves what you want, and then take it apart another stage and do it again if it doesn't. Sometimes you'll need to look stuff up, or talk to someone to see if your objective is even reasonable. The important thing to remember though, is that you want a certain part to be in a certain place at a certain time, and can only plan for one time-step forward. Gamers call them frames, physicists call them plank lengths. But it keeps things easy. If you have any bigger plan than "THING needs to be THERE and CURRENTLY DOING activity" without a time component, your plan is too complicated and will not survive contact with checked-out engineers who have been bred to hate their clients, let alone their clients' clients
I would recommend sticking to the Park Tool and Sutherlands manuals (older versions of this are available online) and not bothering with any of the 'consumer' grade guides. I've read or looked through at least 10 of the latter from the 1960's-90's and they're not really worthwhile unless you're interested in them as cultural artifacts. The Sheldon Brown website has some good advice for vintage bikes but unless you're willing to take the time to read it from A to Z at the outset it's not the easiest resource to use.But that said, I think the best answer these days is actually to look at the material that Park Tool and other outlets put on YouTube and learn to search for info online put out by independent resources. There are guides for everything online and content gets updated faster than any printed book can be. And because the independent resources don't have to tow a corporate line, something like BetterShifting.com can actually be a better resource than what Shimano itself publishes if you're looking for Di2 info, to give a specific example.If you have a craving to look at something on printed pages, I'd suggest a copy of Bicycling Science. It's not repair focused, but will give you a solid foundation for understanding bikes.
UMMM youre not supposed to repair bicycles. They are CARBON FIBER and 100% of parts of them are not serviceable. Just get a new bike if you aren't a poorfag. If your a poorfag just get a new BSO from Cambodian Tire.
>>2063047>>2063036Kill yourself you samefagging brony.
>>2063051that's a blast from the past. are we still hating bronies in current year? can we get a "kys barneyfag" schizo spergout post too?
>>2063027>written by mustache man I like the blogs and videos on the park site so this is presumably them in a book. seems legit.I learned out of a book that was written by Bicycling Magazine because I've been wrenching since a few years before the world wide web. it covered indexed shifting but not disc brakes or any type of suspension. it's still good and I still refer to it, but I don't know how many subsequent editions they made and presumably it's no longer published.
