Hybrid Repair and Maintenance Guide

[Loueese]

Hi All

Can anyone recommend an up to date maintenance and repair guide/book for a hybrid bike?

Thanks

Louise

 

[Cycleops]

No real need for a book, YouTube is your friend for just about anything you want to do.
CC for troubleshooting.

 

[Loueese]

No real need for a book, YouTube is your friend for just about anything you want to do.
CC for troubleshooting.

I know what you mean but I like to read something that's printed and with an index, plus everything I need in one place
Louise

 

[AndyRM]

There's this: https://www.parktool.com/product/big-blue-book-of-bicycle-repair-4th-edition-bbb-4

A friend of mine has it and it's pretty handy.

 

[Loueese]

There's this: https://www.parktool.com/product/big-blue-book-of-bicycle-repair-4th-edition-bbb-4

A friend of mine has it and it's pretty handy.

Thanks. It looks like an American book? Maybe a bit over the top for my basic needs but I'll look into it.

Louise

 

[AndyRM]

Thanks. It looks like an American book? Maybe a bit over the top for my basic needs but I'll look into it.

Louise

Park Tool is an American company, but the book is just about bikes.

If you'd prefer British, Haynes have an option: https://haynes.com/en-gb/bike-book-7th-edition

 

[T4tomo]

park tools are the best you tube video to watch, plus its not as though bikes are left hand drive in the states!!! so if you can find a Uk based copy....

 

[Loueese]

Park Tool is an American company, but the book is just about bikes.

If you'd prefer British, Haynes have an option: https://haynes.com/en-gb/bike-book-7th-edition

I know a bike is a bike but the Americans measure everything in inches and drive on the wrong side of the road! The Haynes book looks quite good
Louise

 

[Loueese]

park tools are the best you tube video to watch, plus its not as though bikes are left hand drive in the states!!! so if you can find a Uk based copy....

I'll look up their Youtube
Louise

 

[Ming the Merciless]

USA again, but I have the mtn bike version of this. It’s got many an oily finger print on it now, and is the sort of book you can use whilst actually working on the bike.

View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zinn-Art-Road-Bike-Maintenance/dp/193771537X

 

[vickster]

There’s a book in the Dummies series. Easy enough to return to Amazon if not what looking for
Bike Repair & Maintenance for Dummies

View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0470415800/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_YFJW0G98ZS2KGWZ8814S

Or DK

View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Bike-Owners-Manual-Maintenance/dp/0241456029/ref=asc_df_0241456029_nodl/?

 

[Blue Hills]

Thanks. It looks like an American book? Maybe a bit over the top for my basic needs but I'll look into it.

Louise

i recommend it - doesn't matter if it's american.
Everything is explained in a very straightforward step by step way so it's fine for beginners.
And as you say books have advantages - greasy hands etc.
I've had mine for years - I do pretty much everything with it to hand apart from really routine stuff.
Probably the only book you'll ever need and will pay for itself on the first job of any size.

(I have a Haynes book = pretty pictures - nowhere near as well written from a functional point of view - I never use it)

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I've got the Haynes book, it's good enough to at least give me a good idea of what I need to do. I do understand the urge to want to see things in print, I quite like to sit with a brew and read it a couple of times rather than having to pause a screen, go back etc.
The Park Tools book looks amazing although I'd probably never use most of it, once I'm getting beyond brake and gear adjustment and into the realms of bearings and bottom brackets it's off to the bike shop mechanic for me.

Having said that I do quite like to watch the Park Tools video on the same job as well, it's nice to be talked through it in detail in case I missed a nuance of something. Calvin in particular is an awesome presenter on mechanical bits, he explains stuff so well.

 

[Roseland triker]

What bike you got?

 

[Loueese]

What bike you got?

Hi
I just bought a Liv Alight 3 disc 2021. Just a run of the mill lightweight hybrid
Louise