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Old 07-17-10 | 11:12 AM
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Buikema
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From: Santa Cruz, CA

Bikes: '81 & '09 Phoenix rod brake roadster cargo bike, '08 Santa Cruz Superlight, Jamis Eclipse

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
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