I learned by working on old 10 speeds and using Sheldon Browns site, YouTube, and copious amounts of the Zinn and the art of Road bike maintenance. My take-aways are; take your time, walk away when you get frustrated, having good tools/the right tools for the job can make things SO much easier, don't be afraid to consult the LBS if you get stuck, and finally its so supposed to be fun so enjoy yourself. I don't consider myself mechanically inclined lungimsam and I have rebuilt about 20 old 10 speeds in the last 7 years. I don't rebuild wheels but I do true them and do just about everything else. You can do it!
Ryan On Thursday, December 4, 2014 9:25:42 PM UTC-8, 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.
