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Old 01-22-12 | 06:33 AM
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Originally Posted by TheOutdoorsman
Thanks, i guess just tools to fix common problems that would come up on older road and mounatin bikes
Some of the common bike repair books have lists of tools in the first chapter. Two that come to mind that should be available used and cheap, are "Anybody's Bike Book" by the (deceased) Tom Cuthbertson. This is what many of us cut our teeth on in the '70s. More recently, there's "Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintainance" by Lennard Zinn, which is a modern book, but (especially in its first edition) covers vintage bike technologies well. One thing that's different from the '70s to to today is that a torque wrench is more important to own today. With vintage bikes it's possible to wreck parts that will be hard to replace if you overtighten bolts. Correct torquing will help to avoid that expense and hassle. It's worth the price of the torque wrench. Both Zinn and Cuthbertson give you a basic and advanced tool kit list.
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