MTB Mechanic: How to Install a Specialty Square-Taper Bottom Bracket and Crank

By Lennard Zinn
Published Jul. 1, 2011
Updated Nov. 17, 2011 at 11:33 AM UTC

Singletrack.com’s Lennard Zinn shows us how to install a specialty square-taper bottom bracket and crank. Take yet another step at becoming the at home mechanic you have always dreamed of becoming.

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Lennard Zinn

Lennard Zinn, our longtime technical writer, joined VeloNews in 1987. He is also a frame builder, former U.S. national team rider, and author of many bicycle books including Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance and Zinn’s Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists. He holds a bachelor’s in physics from Colorado College. Readers can send brief technical questions to Ask LZ.