Quote Originally Posted by kfergos View Post
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??
I'd start with brake cables, housing and pads, and then same for deraillers. Then, bottom bracket, headset last. There are parts of the headset process that usually require a stop at LBS for them to use their headset press on a thingy in there.