Thank you for this post! I've been wanting to do maintenance on my bikes for a while -- saves money and, in my opinion, is therapeutic and rewarding -- but I've been too chicken to really get in there and do it.

My goal is to learn enough to learn enough to fix my battered winter mtb (needs everything, including headset and bottom bracket, replaced) and convert her to an Xtracycle. I hope to do this by spring of 2009. Where to start??