Originally Posted by rvabiker
How was I talking **** about Sheldon Brown? I have personally never met him...just his internet persona so no, there's no way you can prove he exists. And I never said he is wrong or stupid. I said isn't God. He is fallable and I'm sure if he graced us with hs precence he'd agree with me. When you just take one persons word for anything with out going to other scorces or expeirimenting yourself, you are asking to fail.
So in summary...read the ****ing post before you make a snap judgement.
**** snap judgments. **** "prov[ing] he exists". Suck some ****ing knob. Pardon the language and all.
I nor anybody nor Sheldon himself is claiming him to be the end-all of cycling knowledge. The man is a goddamn encyclopedia. My friend wants to translate his site into Spanish. My point, which you did not ever approach, is that I can pick any six words in random order from any of the Harris sites and gain more from those six words than your "SHELDON DOES NOT EXIST" posts. Which is not to say you or any of us won't have that wealth of knowledge, or shouldn't. Just that it rattles my ****ing bones when chumpdicks shrug his contributions off like water. **** that.
We are all people here. No one's creating faux personas to post on a ****ing internet web board. If this possibility even exists for you outside of the handful of Nat Fab impersonators... I don't know. We are all people here. Really. We have things we want, things we are trying to solve and learn. I've toured from Tampa to New York solo, but just recently posted about a 70mm English BB that doesn't exist. We all have a lot in common, bicycles we are trying to move from point A to point B as fast as healthfully possible, in whatever fashion. The most visible persona of making every possible facet of his wisdom over however many decades he's been on a bike... doesn't exist? What?
Right after you responded Sheldon posted with a way to stop a bike with the chain disengaged. If you've read than this than you've read that. I mean...? Do you see where I'm coming from? Do you see where the whole "Sheldon isn't real!" works only in Magical Theory Land and exactly nowhere else?
I need to drink less.
****.