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I never met Sheldon but he has been and will continue to be my go-to person for bike advice. Whenever I'm fixing my brakes and have to take a minute to think about mechanical advantage, I think of Sheldon. I'm very thankful for his efforts and the ongoing efforts of the people who maintain his site.
Sheldon Brown's site is amazing but I'm afraid it's going to get increasingly stale now that he's passed on. I've thought it'd be neat to turn the site into a wiki that can be maintained by bicycle enthusiasts.
The author is sadly deceased and while this is a great resource it's worth noting that a lot of the technical stuff on here is not very applicable to newer bicycles which use threadless headsets etc.
Well, that specific example isn't true: http://sheldonbrown.com/headsets.html
Sheldon Brown's site is amazing but I'm afraid it's going to get increasingly stale now that he's passed on. I've thought it'd be neat to turn the site into a wiki that can be maintained by bicycle enthusiasts.
That was the first bookmark i added to my browser when i got a bike a long time ago. If you work on your own bike, and you are a geek/nerd, you will end up on this site regardless. i'm using a lot the bicycle site at stackexchange. granted that most answers are just pointers to sheldon's site for now :)
I'm pretty sure any semi-serious biker knows about Sheldon Brown by now. His site usually tops search results. I like to use his gear calculator to remind me why I spin out on the top end: http://sheldonbrown.com/gears/index.html
I'm pretty sure any semi-serious biker knows about Sheldon Brown by now. His site usually tops search results. I like to use his gear calculator to remind me why I spin out on the top end: http://sheldonbrown.com/gears/index.html
His gear calculator is terrible! Use this one instead: http://www.andrusia.com/gearseer