01-16-2010, 09:05 AM
Do what I did. Buy the tools necessary to take apart your bike (Specific bottom bracket tool, cassette tool, make your own headset removal tool and press), a copy of Zinn and the Art of (whichever) Maintenance, and take apart your bike.
I mean every bolt. Then put it back together. Then do it again. Then do it to your wife's bike, kid's bike, neighbor's bike, friend's, relatives, riding buddies, and eventually stranger's bikes.
Buy appropriate tools along the way, and by the time you're done, not only will you have intimate knowledge of all sorts of different components, you will have put together quite a nice set of tools along the way.
In addition, you will now be the person people refer to when they say "Hey, I know a guy...", and you have a reputation. Thats what happened to me.
I mean every bolt. Then put it back together. Then do it again. Then do it to your wife's bike, kid's bike, neighbor's bike, friend's, relatives, riding buddies, and eventually stranger's bikes.
Buy appropriate tools along the way, and by the time you're done, not only will you have intimate knowledge of all sorts of different components, you will have put together quite a nice set of tools along the way.
In addition, you will now be the person people refer to when they say "Hey, I know a guy...", and you have a reputation. Thats what happened to me.
Dedicated scholar of bicycles
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