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Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, 7th Edition

The World's Best-Selling Guide to Mountain Bike Repair

Published by VeloPress
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

Join the millions of cyclists who swear by the name Zinn. Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance is the world’s best-selling guide to the maintenance and repair of mountain bikes, hybrids, and fat bikes.

Lennard Zinn is the world’s leading expert on bike maintenance and repair. His friendly step-by-step guide explains the tools and parts you’ll need to repair new and old mountain bikes, alongside everything from guidelines on wheel size selection for your frame size, suspension settings, and travel to procedures for mounting and sealing tubeless tire systems and more. Over 500 pages and more than 750 hand-drawn illustrations and exploded-parts diagrams show just the right level of detail to lead you through every mountain bike repair task, including:

  • Basics: How to fix a flat tire, lube a bicycle chain, adjust the brakes
  • Emergency repairs: How to fix a broken chain, tighten loose spokes, repair a bent derailleur
  • Easy shifting: How to adjust shifters, derailleurs, and cables for clean and smooth shifting
  • Wheels: How to true a wheel, install a new tire, change a cassette, replace broken spokes, build your own wheels
  • Overhauls: How to service and replace pedals, chains and chainrings, saddles, handlebars, stems, headsets, forks, and bottom brackets
  • New tech: How to maintain 1x-speed systems, electronic, and wireless shifters and complete info on the new 11-speed and SRAM 12-speed drivetrains
  • Troubleshooting: How to figure out what’s wrong with any bike and fix it


Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance makes bicycle repair and maintenance easy, quick, affordable, and fun. Whether you’re riding a classic Stumpjumper or a carbon-fiber race machine, with Zinn at your side, you’ll know how to keep your bicycle running smoothly for years.

About The Author

Lennard Zinn was a member of the US national cycling team and is a lifelong endurance athlete. He has reported on major stories for VeloNews for 30 years and is the author of the world’s best-selling guide to bicycle maintenance and repair. Zinn has a degree in physics and has built custom bicycles for over 30 years.

Product Details

  • Publisher: VeloPress (July 22, 2025)
  • Length: 520 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781646048151

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