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Interestingly the bike repair bible that most of the experts defer to, i.e. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ is written by a man who
by vcdimension 4y ago
Interestingly the bike repair bible that most of the experts defer to, i.e. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ is written by a man who claims he was strongly influenced by the writings of Bertrand Russell, and he is married to a mathematician and has two children who are both mathematicians.
The webpage contains several simple maths formulas for calculating things such as gear ratios.
- loeg 4y ago(The web page hasn't been updated much for a while because Sheldon died several years ago.)
- vcdimension 4y agoIt's kept upto date by employees of the bike shop he worked for (Harris Cyclery), his widow, and his friend John Harris (a nationally recognized bicycle expert). The most recent post was about 3 weeks ago: https://sheldonbrown.com/blog/ https://sheldonbrown.com/blog/
- geocrasher 4y agoI am absolutely delighted to see Sheldon Brown's website posted on HN! It is an incredible resource.
- loeg 4y agoYeah, that's why I qualified it with "much." Trying to provide some context for HN readers unfamiliar with Sheldon.
- Anthony-G 4y agoThis was the website that made me fall in love with the World Wide Web and the “old Internet”. In the mid to late nineties, I was big into biking and liked to do my own bike maintenance. I came across Sheldon’s wonderful site (probably via Alta Vista) some time after a friend brought me to an Internet café and introduced me to the web. I still have a folder with all the pages I printed out so I could read it at home. RIP: https://sheldonbrown.com/blog/2022/02/03/its-been-14-years-now/ https://sheldonbrown.com/blog/2022/02/03/its-been-14-years-n...