Originally Posted by Steve B.

Grant at Rivendell had this to say, and I re-post it here, for as usual with Grant, it's as well written as Sheldon's stuff.

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"I got a call at home early this morning, and now that it's up on the Harris site, it's okay to acknowledge it here.

Everybody knows it by now, and thousands of words have been written about it by now. It should be hundreds of thousands. Even if hundreds of thousands, it wouldn’t approach the number of words Sheldon wrote in his enviable, concise, straight to the point style that everybody ought to learn by and I wish I could do as well.

One thing you will read, or have read many times by now, is “there will never be another Sheldon,” and it wasn’t just his hats and genius clownish demeanor, or his yellow-and-blue website, or his Sheldon Brownish knowledge of everything about bikes, from every era, and spilling over into realms and fields far beyond bicycles.

Music, acting, cameras, websites…whatever Sheldon was interested in he became expert at, but unlike many experts who flaunt it and use it to make those with less knowledge feel stupid, Sheldon was a humble educator.

Is there anything better to be? I think there isn't. Is there anybody who has helped more people, solved more problems, and contributed more enthusiasm and knowledge about bikes to more people? Nobody else is even close.

Sheldon died, and in our little bicycle world, news doesn’t get any bigger or any sadder than that.

Grant "I'm lucky to have known Sheldon" Petersen

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SB