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Dear Sheldon, thanks for your amazing website, it has been very informative and useful, and is quite suitable for hours of pleasurable time-wasting. hope you are well. - joseph
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Dear Sheldon, Your website is widely used. In Finland, where I live, most of the time your website is the most useful. Thanks. /Jouni
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Sheldon, you are the godfather of the global cycling community. I have printed several pages of material from your site and posted them in my shop... the usefulness of such articles as "Tire Sizing Systems" is incredible. Many, many hours of reading your site has resulted in customers and fellow bike mechanics alike frequently giving me the "how on earth did you know that?!" expression.
Best of luck with your health, and keep the rubber side down! |
Originally Posted by Sheldon Brown
(Post 3517679)
My Website has been growing since December 1995, and has become quite large. As a result, it is sometimes challenging to navigate it.
Generally the best place to start is http://sheldonbrown.com/glossary or http://sheldonbrown.com/articles But I have also created a number of shortcut links. Put any of these after: http://sheldonbrown.com/ and you will have a good chance of finding what you’re looking for. Note that the filename must be lower case, and there are never any blank spaces. I often use hyphens (-) to separate words, generally don't use underscores (_). With most browsers you don't need to type the "http://" part. Nobody can remember all of these, but my intent is to make it easy to “guess” the url you’re looking for. Here are some of them: 7 26 333 584 650 650b adjustable airless alternate ar articles asc autoshift awfixed bbdrop bbsize bcd bearings beginners bicycle bicycle-links bicycle-parts bicycling bicycling-links bicyle-parts-links bicyles bike-links bike-parts bikelinks bikeparts bikes biopace bisci books boston bottombracket brakes braking brakturn brandt bridgestone cables cameras cannondale-headshok canti-adjustment canti-fixture canti-geometry cantigeo cantilever-adjustment cantilever-fixture cantilever-geometry capacity capreo captainbike carapace carrababy cassette cassettes centurion centurion1984 chain chain-life chainlife chainline chains chartres chicago-schwinn classified classifieds clips coaster coaster-brakes colorcode commute computer-links computer-net-links computers cone cone-adjustment cones contact cotters cranks creaks crib cribsheets cyclecomputersl cyclecomputers cyclecomputers cyclopedia cyclo-pedia cyclopedia da deakins derailer derailer-adjustment derailers derailleur deutsch diy dp-forging dpdropbolt drop-bolts dropbolt dropout dropouts dura-ace dynohubs eagle eng-fren english englishbike essays europe75 europe89 excel Since this has been converted into a "sticky, I've been revising it to make the links active. This is as far as I've gotten so far... family fastercard fenders fiction fitting fixed fixed-conversion fixed-conversions flats frame-comfort frame-materials frame-sizing frame-spacing frames france free-k7 freewheel freewheels fren-eng french french-english frenchparts front front-derailers frontderailers fsa fuji g-s gain gear-theory gearing gears geartheory german glossary handlebar-tape hands-up handsup hats hb headset headsets health home home-drop hub hubs humor internal internal-gears international ipix iro iro-nexus japan jobst journal k-7 k7 kevlar kifer kops kunich lambert larz2000 lasvegas leather leoego lights lirpa lock-strategy locks lockstrategy map marin masi mead mega7 mismatch mismatched music nanodrive new nexus nexus-mech nexus-tech nexus8 numbers nutdriver nutdrivers old oldbikes oldeng24 oldies omeara opc opc-tandem opctandem organization otb pain palm parts pdb personal personal-pages photographs photography picchio piccio podcast podcasts pressure prices publick qr quality quebec quickbeam racing raleigh-20 raleigh-26 raleigh-baylis raleigh-cadent raleigh-competition raleigh-international raleigh-twenty raleigh20 raleigh26 rambouillet raven reach real-man realman recessed recumbent recumbents reflectors repair retroraleighs revels rinard robinhood russian s-a sa50 saddle saddles schwinn seating seatpost seatpost-size seatpost-sizes seatposts seats secure security selling seven seven-speed shaddox sheldon shimano shimano333 shimano1973 shimano1982 singlespeed skates skewer skewers sliderule sovos spacing spam speed speeds spocalc stand standing start starting straighten-chainwheel straighten-chw stuck stuck-seatpost stuck-seatposts stuckpost sturmey sturmey-archer suntour sw_files symmetrispoke symspoke sync-chain syncchain synchain tandem tandem-brakes tandem-build tandembuild tandfat tandkids tape taping taps teachride thons thorn thorn-raven tire-rotation tire-seating tire-size tire-sizing tires tiresize tools tooltips tork-grip torkgrip torque touring tova tovagrad trailercycles trailrcy translations transylvania turning tv twenty ty tyre-rotation tyre-sizing tyres upgrade upgrades var varsity velo velos vertical vintage vrbn wheelbuild wheelbuilding wheels A Fan, Mike |
Thanks to Sheldon Brown and this site. I had a clunk, chunk when I pedaled my old World Sport. Checked the site and the Creaks, Clunks etc, section and bingo. Who'd a thunk the sound I was hearing wasn't coming from my crankset but my saddle! Sheldon Brown would a thunk it, that's who! Sure enough, broken saddle support. Replaced it and my "crankset noise" is gone. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Sheldon Brown
(Post 3517679)
My Website has been growing since December 1995, and has become quite large. As a result, it is sometimes challenging to navigate it.
Generally the best place to start is http://sheldonbrown.com/glossary or http://sheldonbrown.com/articles But I have also created a number of shortcut links. Put any of these after: http://sheldonbrown.com/ and you will have a good chance of finding what you’re looking for. Note that the filename must be lower case, and there are never any blank spaces. I often use hyphens (-) to separate words, generally don't use underscores (_). With most browsers you don't need to type the "http://" part. Nobody can remember all of these, but my intent is to make it easy to “guess” the url you’re looking for. Here are some of them: 7 26 333 584 650 650b adjustable airless alternate ar articles asc autoshift awfixed bbdrop bbsize bcd bearings beginners bicycle bicycle-links bicycle-parts bicycling bicycling-links bicyle-parts-links bicyles bike-links bike-parts bikelinks bikeparts bikes biopace bisci books boston bottombracket brakes braking brakturn brandt bridgestone cables cameras cannondale-headshok canti-adjustment canti-fixture canti-geometry cantigeo cantilever-adjustment cantilever-fixture cantilever-geometry capacity capreo captainbike carapace carrababy cassette cassettes centurion centurion1984 chain chain-life chainlife chainline chains chartres chicago-schwinn classified classifieds clips coaster coaster-brakes colorcode commute computer-links computer-net-links computers cone cone-adjustment cones contact cotters cranks creaks crib cribsheets cyclecomputersl cyclecomputers cyclecomputers cyclopedia cyclo-pedia cyclopedia da deakins derailer derailer-adjustment derailers derailleur deutsch diy dp-forging dpdropbolt drop-bolts dropbolt dropout dropouts dura-ace dynohubs eagle eng-fren english englishbike essays europe75 europe89 excel Since this has been converted into a "sticky, I've been revising it to make the links active. This is as far as I've gotten so far... family fastercard fenders fiction fitting fixed fixed-conversion fixed-conversions flats frame-comfort frame-materials frame-sizing frame-spacing frames france free-k7 freewheel freewheels fren-eng french french-english frenchparts front front-derailers frontderailers fsa fuji g-s gain gear-theory gearing gears geartheory german glossary handlebar-tape hands-up handsup hats hb headset headsets health home home-drop hub hubs humor internal internal-gears international ipix iro iro-nexus japan jobst journal k-7 k7 kevlar kifer kops kunich lambert larz2000 lasvegas leather leoego lights lirpa lock-strategy locks lockstrategy map marin masi mead mega7 mismatch mismatched music nanodrive new nexus nexus-mech nexus-tech nexus8 numbers nutdriver nutdrivers old oldbikes oldeng24 oldies omeara opc opc-tandem opctandem organization otb pain palm parts pdb personal personal-pages photographs photography picchio piccio podcast podcasts pressure prices publick qr quality quebec quickbeam racing raleigh-20 raleigh-26 raleigh-baylis raleigh-cadent raleigh-competition raleigh-international raleigh-twenty raleigh20 raleigh26 rambouillet raven reach real-man realman recessed recumbent recumbents reflectors repair retroraleighs revels rinard robinhood russian s-a sa50 saddle saddles schwinn seating seatpost seatpost-size seatpost-sizes seatposts seats secure security selling seven seven-speed shaddox sheldon shimano shimano333 shimano1973 shimano1982 singlespeed skates skewer skewers sliderule sovos spacing spam speed speeds spocalc stand standing start starting straighten-chainwheel straighten-chw stuck stuck-seatpost stuck-seatposts stuckpost sturmey sturmey-archer suntour sw_files symmetrispoke symspoke sync-chain syncchain synchain tandem tandem-brakes tandem-build tandembuild tandfat tandkids tape taping taps teachride thons thorn thorn-raven tire-rotation tire-seating tire-size tire-sizing tires tiresize tools tooltips tork-grip torkgrip torque touring tova tovagrad trailercycles trailrcy translations transylvania turning tv twenty ty tyre-rotation tyre-sizing tyres upgrade upgrades var varsity velo velos vertical vintage vrbn wheelbuild wheelbuilding wheels hope most of these work per instructions (just text editor) family fastercard fenders fiction fitting fixed fixed-conversion fixed-conversions flats frame-comfort frame-materials frame-sizing frame-spacing frames france free-k7 freewheel freewheels fren-eng french french-english frenchparts front front-derailers frontderailers fsa fuji g-s gain gear-theory gearing gears geartheory german glossary handlebar-tape hands-up handsup hats hb headset headsets health home home-drop hub hubs humor internal internal-gears international ipix iro iro-nexus japan jobst journal k-7 k7 kevlar kifer kops kunich lambert larz2000 lasvegas leather leoego lights lirpa lock-strategy locks lockstrategy map marin masi mead mega7 mismatch mismatched music nanodrive new nexus nexus-mech nexus-tech nexus8 numbers nutdriver nutdrivers old oldbikes oldeng24 oldies omeara opc opc-tandem opctandem organization otb pain palm parts pdb personal personal-pages photographs photography picchio piccio podcast podcasts pressure prices publick qr quality quebec quickbeam racing raleigh-20 raleigh-26 raleigh-baylis raleigh-cadent raleigh-competition raleigh-international raleigh-twenty raleigh20 raleigh26 rambouillet raven reach real-man realman recessed recumbent recumbents reflectors repair retroraleighs revels rinard robinhood russian s-a sa50 saddle saddles schwinn seating seatpost seatpost-size seatpost-sizes seatposts seats secure security selling seven seven-speed shaddox sheldon shimano shimano333 shimano1973 shimano1982 singlespeed skates skewer skewers sliderule sovos spacing spam speed speeds spocalc stand standing start starting straighten-chainwheel straighten-chw stuck stuck-seatpost stuck-seatposts stuckpost sturmey sturmey-archer suntour sw_files symmetrispoke symspoke sync-chain syncchain synchain tandem tandem-brakes tandem-build tandembuild tandfat tandkids tape taping taps teachride thons thorn thorn-raven tire-rotation tire-seating tire-size tire-sizing tires tiresize tools tooltips tork-grip torkgrip torque touring tova tovagrad trailercycles trailrcy translations transylvania turning tv twenty ty tyre-rotation tyre-sizing tyres upgrade upgrades var varsity velo velos vertical vintage vrbn wheelbuild wheelbuilding wheels |
Originally Posted by O7WDhjNDN9g
(Post 5125617)
hope most of these work per instructions (just text editor)
Sheldon "URLs" Brown |
Great info on your site Sheldon, but do you ever think you'll remove the "Downhill isn't a sport" discrimination?
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Originally Posted by Wordbiker
(Post 5141937)
Great info on your site Sheldon, but do you ever think you'll remove the "Downhill isn't a sport" discrimination?
Please don't put words into my mouth. All the best, Sheldon |
You are correct Sheldon.
Downhill Racing I consider this fad to be bad for cycling, and contrary to the spirit of cycling. It is effectively just a variant form of motorcycle racing, since the power is provided by the machinery that carries the rider and bike to the top of the run. Bicycling should be a human-powered activity, or it is not bicycling. My apologies for the tone of my post earlier. It was late, and I was tired, but I still wonder at why you hold this opinion? Having raced downhill myself, I can assure you that the cranks are not mere decoration. After racing XC for many years I used to think the same thing, but once I tried a race or two and saw how much sprinting power was needed to do well...my opinion changed. |
sheldon, has your website been down for over a week now? I haven't been able to access it for a while now! i'm lost without it...
thanks |
Originally Posted by Wordbiker
(Post 5142642)
You are correct Sheldon.
You didn't say it wasn't a sport, just that it isn't a bicycling sport. My apologies for the tone of my post earlier. It was late, and I was tired, but I still wonder at why you hold this opinion? Having raced downhill myself, I can assure you that the cranks are not mere decoration. After racing XC for many years I used to think the same thing, but once I tried a race or two and saw how much sprinting power was needed to do well...my opinion changed. If you want to do downhill, or moped, or motorcycle or automobile or belt sander racing, I have no problem with it, but I personally have no interest in those sports. Actually, I'm not particularly interested in sports in general. I kinda like baseball and sailboat racing, used to follow the Tour de France but the whole drug thing has turned me off that. Sheldon "Not A Sports Fan" Brown |
Have you considered turning your site in to a wiki?
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Originally Posted by trob
(Post 5227999)
Have you considered turning your site in to a wiki?
Sheldon "Ten Years Of Work" Brown |
I really wish that they could integrate some wiki functions into this board (FAQs and the stickies are basically unusable in the system that this forum uses).
Sheldon's page is great as is. |
There is a bicycle Wikibook. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bicycle...nce_and_Repair
I contributed a little, but it was written from a Bicycles for Dummies perspective that I found very difficult to change. |
Originally Posted by Sheldon Brown
(Post 5228890)
I'm a big Wiki fan, in fact I carry a copy of Wikipedia around in my Treo. I have contributed a number of things to Wikipedia...but sheldonbrown.com is MY baby, and I'm not ready to give it away. ;-)
Sheldon "Ten Years Of Work" Brown It would make navigating simpler for people. I think you've done a great job and have given to the bicycle community a wonderful resource. Thanks. |
That's a great resource. Thanks. This site has an amazing amount of info. Glad I found it
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RIP Sheldon. Like many other cycling enthusiasts I used your sites many times. I truly appreciated the work you put into the site.
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Dear Sheldon,
I'm so sorry to see you go. My guess is that you're in providing short cuts and mechanical help in heaven. RIP Sheldon Brown. -VR |
oh my, I just find your knowledge and kind soul and you move on.
be at peace lauren |
I just heard. This breaks my heart. Sheldon will be missed by countless people he helped.
My condolences to his family. |
Originally Posted by pgoat
(Post 6118372)
I just heard. This breaks my heart. Sheldon will be missed by countless people he helped.
My condolences to his family. This news was quite a "disturbance in the force." |
Thanks, Sheldon. You helped people do good things.
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Sheldon, can you read this forum in Heaven? I assume it wouldn't be Heaven for you if you couldn't. You helped so many people so generously in this world, and your words of wisdom still remain to help countless more in the future. I am sure I speak for them all when I say "Thank You!" for all of your help.
I am sure you will be busy doing new things up there for a while, but when they get around to installing computer terminals in Heaven, make sure you connect back here again; we will all appreciate that day. Meanwhile, you are our patron saint, and perhaps you will find time to look after us cyclists down here now and then and make that motorist drop that cell phone and avoid hitting us along the highway. Thank you. |
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