In praise of the humble Sheffield stand
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In praise of the humble Sheffield stand
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It makes me think that we ought to retire the phrase "reinvent the wheel". There's lots of different kinds of wheels and it doesn't seem crazy that you would need to make a new kind. And when people do make new kinds of wheel, they generally meet some minimum bar of worthiness (rather than being say, square).
But I've never seen any improvement to the classic Sheffield stand, save possibly for the sub-variety with the extra bar underneath. Yet industrial designers insist on inflicting their patently inferior "innovations" onto long-suffering cyclists. Especially irksome when it happens in my own city of ... Sheffield! So maybe we should say "reinvent the Sheffield stand" :)
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#3(Submitter) It makes me think that we ought to retire the phrase "reinvent the wheel". There's lots of different kinds of wheels and it doesn't seem crazy that you would need to make a new kind. And when people do make new kinds of wheel, they generally meet some minimum bar of worthiness (rather than being say, square). But I've never seen any improvement to the classic Sheffield stand, save possibly for the sub-var…
don’t reinvent the pneumatic tire or the saddle, either :)
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Works fine for me. Maybe a content blocker?
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#7Page unreadable on an iPhone (tried both Safari and Firefox). All the images are blank… Any advice?
Works fine for me. Maybe a content blocker?
Ah, yes. I forgot I had enabled Firefox Focus as content blocker, for some reason. It must have a rule for Twitter images or something. Thanks!
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#8(Submitter) It makes me think that we ought to retire the phrase "reinvent the wheel". There's lots of different kinds of wheels and it doesn't seem crazy that you would need to make a new kind. And when people do make new kinds of wheel, they generally meet some minimum bar of worthiness (rather than being say, square). But I've never seen any improvement to the classic Sheffield stand, save possibly for the sub-var…
Hello fellow Sheffielder :)
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#9In The Netherlands we commonly refer to these as “staples”
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#10I don't understand why many of the stands he calls useless are useless. Sure most of them are less economical but as long as there's a loop of metal anchored to the ground how is it useless?