What best bike building/maintenance bike to get??

[BobCatMax]

Second the Park big blue book and as said above Youtube is a wealth of knowledge for technical demostrations. I wouldn't have attempted to re-tape road bike bars without looking up the various techniques, hints & tips first.

Third the park big blue book Jon, very useful indeed

Also as everyone else has said, the interwebz are your friend. Google and YouTube..

 

[Tad]

The Park website, Sheldon Brown and here, all free

 

[rojo]

Cool will have a look for these, the wife was looking at getting me a book . So will say these ones are good ones to get

 

[cyfa2809]

yes sheldon brown, although can be confusing if you dont know the jargon

i started with the haynes manual

65p (not much postage either)
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=185010977X

heres what it looks like
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BrowseListingsResults?n=100203112&vci=508409

 

[Neil]

i started with the haynes manual

I started with Richard's book - late 70s / early 80s.

In the early 90s, I bought the Grime Time book from MBUK.

After that, it's been either the odd saved article from magazines or websites.

At the end of the day, though, it's not rocket science, mechanical sympathy, a bit of experimentation, and getting some details off t'internet seems to work out just fine. There's not much that new under the sun, the newest bike I've got is 95, Aheadsets are new-fangled to me.