Calvin retires
 

Calvin Jones, the Bob Ross of bike repair videos retires.

​​​​​​https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/...n-at-park-tool

Hopefully, the torch will be passed on to someone as passionate about providing info regarding repairing and maintaining our bicycles. The site has been very instrumental in providing help and good info to me, and no doubt to scores of us who work on and do the maintenance on our bikes.

Sounds like he won’t be disappearing entirely. He’s a very good communicator.

the repair videos he made with Park Tool are pretty much seminal.

That's an "end of an era" sort of event. I don't remember ever using one of his videos to fix anything, I work better with text, but he is undoubtedly a star in the field of bike mechanic information/education.

Better with text than seeing someone actually doing it?

Is it not just that you knew how to do all the basic stuff they cover in those videos before youtube came along?

Better skimming some text than waiting impatiently for that part of the video that actually shows what you need to know.
Although partly, yes - I was messing with bikes 20 years before I sat in front of a i486DX2* running at 33 MHz with 8MB RAM, loaded Windows 3.11 from the C:\> prompt and launched Mosaic. Those were the days, eh?

* I'm guessing about the hardware, it was a generic PC of the time.

Why would you wait rather than fast forward or skip to the part you need?

How do I know where to find the information I need without watching the video? The presenter may claim at the start that the information will be divulged, but only rarely will they say "skip to 8:53 for a concise answer to your exact question, the rest of this video is just me waffling in an attempt to "engage" with my audience".

We don't, but I'm confident enough to scroll through until I see the part I have questions about. I do it all the time, particularly on auto repair related stuff. Just did it the other day on my snow plow lift pump. Yeah, Yeah, I know and am past this part, Ahh, here's the procedure I'm unsure of, go back a minute/30 seconds and play from there. Skip through until you see the information you need, play, pause, replay as needed. I'll bring the laptop under the hood if I need to.

Calvin looks too young to be hanging up his hex wrenches.

Cycling elixir of youth

>>I was messing with bikes 20 years before I sat in front of a i486DX2* running at 33 MHz with 8MB RAM, loaded Windows 3.11 from the C:\> prompt and launched Mosaic. Those were the days, eh?

You're so young. 8088 with an 84-key KB, 640K RAM, DOS 3 point something, and a green mono screen.

Calvin's videos have been a big help to me and I wish him the best.

That Windows machine was just my first WWW experience. The first machine I sat in front of was an HP-2100(?) - teletype terminal, card reader, papertape punch.

Ha! That's definitely before my time with tech.