Subject: RE: front derailleur not shifting The majority of bike maintenance can be done with your typical multi-tool and the 5mm hex wrench will get the most use. But like cayrip mentioned there's a number of things that need should use special tools, like the crank, BB, cogset, etc. Bike maintenance definitely isn't difficult. REI often has free workshops on how to work on bike, but probably not much this time of year. Otherwise take cayrip's offer (or if you're in the north 'burbs of Denver I'll show you some things ). As for a shop showing you, it's a tossup. I've seen some shops that treat you like crap because you don't bring them shop business, but other shops that realize you're going to do it yourself anyway so they might as well show you and try to sell you the specialty tools you'll need. |