I got mine for my 16th birthday in 1997 along with a Nintendo 64. It was a different world, and Zinn’s book did an excellent job covering it. There were no dropper posts, no electronic shifters, and no tubeless tires. There was a negligible number of oil-dampened and air-sprung forks out there, with the majority running on simple stacks of elastomers. Even V-brakes had yet to proliferate after their still-recent introduction that same year, leaving just relatively standardized cantilever rim brakes. Disc brakes wouldn’t gain mass appeal for another few years. With very few exceptions, there was just one dropout standard and one bottom bracket shell. Nearly everything you would ever need to know about maintaining nearly any bike you might encounter could be covered in a single book. Not because the internet era had not matured yet, but because our bikes hadn’t either. When Zinn’s first volume was published in 1996, the concept of a printed repair guide made perfect sense. The section on b-tension covers the fundamentals of an under-appreciated adjustment.
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