I really like Zinn's repair manuals ... here's a link to the Road Bike one *<http://tinyurl.com/mnskwkl*>. A bike work stand is very helpful, but hanging a bike from the ceiling with two ropes works well, and is quite economical. Zinn provides good advice on tools too. Although some tools are bicycle specific, many are not. Harbor Freight has very affordable tools, and many of their hand tools work quite well. My $0.02, get a copy of Zinn's book, some rope, and whatever tools you need. Have a go at it. Worst case scenario ... the bike shop will bail you out, and maybe you'll acquire some beautiful beausage. best, Larry
On Friday, December 5, 2014 12:25:42 AM UTC-5, lungimsam wrote: > > I can do some stuff on my bikes. Setting up cockpits and saddle/seatpost, > brake lever/caliper/housing/cable installation and adjustment, pedals, > shifter lever installation and adjustment, fender/rack installations, > cassette/chain swapping, etc. The more basic stuff. > > But I haven't dared to do anything with bb's, cranksets, wheel > building/truing, headset adjustment, derailer installation. Just don't > wanna mess anything up. > But I want to learn to do this stuff so I don't have to depend on the LBS > for things. > > What's a good way to go about doing these more difficult things without > damaging anything? Books and websites are helpful, but I still don't have > the confidence to mess with the aforementioned stuff. > > Buy a beater and wrench away on it? But a lot of old road bike beaters > don't match the type of components and frame of the RBW bikes and wheels, > so I don't know how helpful that would be to break down and rebuild a > Peugeot (for instance) to help me learn how to do maintenance on my > Rivbikes. > > Any ideas? How'd you learn? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
