Best bicycle references, what are they?
Okay, I'm a book kinda guy. Whenever I want to know about something I hit the books til I have enough of a foundation of knowledge to start asking not totally stupid questions and building on the knowledge with my own investigations.
So, I begin to get interested in C&V bicycles and I find... nothing. Not unless I want to know about old Schwinns, which seem to have quite a following. Am I missing something? I think we can all agree that sheldonbrown.org is indispensable, it certainly has been for me. What other references are out there? Books, web...whatever.
I think a WikiCycles type site would be great, but I don't know if I'm alone in that thought or not. I want to have a go to reference for the lineage of a particular manufacturer, how to adjust components, methods of rehabbing chrome... all of it.
I'll start. For me I go to:
sheldonbrown.org
bikeforums.net
...to easy I know, but that's what I've got. And lets face it, bikeforums is great, but there is quite a substantial amount of both differences in opinion (there is after all more than one way to skin a cat) and bull-oney which one has to sift through by the ton