Originally Posted by
BirdsBikeBinocs
This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ And no where in my original post did I say I can't maintain the bike. My question was "Why do bikes not come with a manual."
Sometimes I wish people could read and comprehend. And reply with helpful information. Many of you have. Some have not.
The reason is writing and printing manuals for all the different iterations of the models would be enormously expensive, and each word of them has to be vetted for liability. The reason I put up the link to the Specialized bikes is to show that they have a vetted manual they wrote in 2008, and they aren't going to substantially revise anytime soon.
If you're comparing to a car, btw, the costs of an owner's manual for a car is a much smaller percentage of the purchase price than one for a bike would be.