- "26 Inch" Tires
- Do you think "26 inch" is a tire size? It isn't!
- NEW! Adventure Cycling articles
- Sheldon's "Mechanical Advantage" articles
- April Fool
- Have you paid your Gullibility Tax?
- Autoshift
- Does your bike shift by itself?
- ASC Hubs
- Old three-speed fixed gear! Now Sturmey-Archer has a new one.
- NEW! Bichain Fixed/Free Drivetrain
- Are you really handy? Bruce Ingle's wild drive train.
- Bicycle Links
- My personal bicycle hotlist.
- Biopace
- An unfashionable chainwheel design defended.
- Bottom Bracket Drop Calculator
- Grant Petersen's spreadsheet for calculating pedal cornering clearance.
- Bottom Bracket Sizes
- What size bottom bracket goes with your crank set?
- NEW! Bottom Bracket Spindle Tapers
- Square taper bottom brackets ISO vs. J.I.S.
- Braking and Turning
- Which brake? How to turn?
- Jobst Brandt's FAQ
- A mechanical engineer answers Frequently Asked Questions
- Bridgestone Bicycles
- From the Golden Age of Japanese Bicycles
- Revised! Cables
- Tips on cable installation to ensure that your brakes and gears live up to their potential.
- Cannondale Headshock Service
- Service guide by Nigel Pickard.
- Cantilever Adjustment
- A practical guide to adjusting cantilever brakes.
- Cantilever Boss Fixture
- Install your own cantilever brake bosses.
- Cantilever Geometry
- A technical analysis of how to fine-tune your cantilever brakes for best performance.
- Capreo-Shimano's system for small wheels
- 9-tooth sprockets help provide decent high gears with small wheels.
- Carapace Completed Umber
- Humorous postings by my evil twin.
- Updated! Cassette Hubs
- The modern solution for rear hubs.
- Centurion Bicycles
- Feature article by Ashley Wright
- Chain Life Extension
- A new technique for extending chain/sprocket life on simple chain drives.
- Chain Line
- It's time to go straight.
- Chain Maintenance
- Make your chain run smoother, last longer and shift better.
- Chicago Schwinns
- The indestructible bikes from Chicago.
- Coaster Brakes
- Coaster, or "back-pedalling" brakes.
- Color Coding Your Tools
- Increase order and efficiency in your work area by color coding your tools.
- Computer/Net Links
- A page of links about computers, the Internet and the Web.
- Cone Adjustment
- Procedures and tools for adjusting wheel bearings.
- Revised! Cottered Cranks
- Older bikes used cotter (wedge) pins to hold the cranks on.
- Cranks
- Crank length and other crank issues.
- Creaks, Clicks & Clunks
- ...and things that go "bump" on your bike.
- Cribsheets
- Printer-friendly data tables with useful dimensions of:
- Cyclecomputer Calibration Chart
- Calibration numbers for all cyclecomputers.
- Cyclecomputer Installation
- Tips on installing cyclecomputers.
- Cyclecomputer Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting and repair of cyclecomputers.
- Cyclist Inferiority
- Attitude? Phobia? Complex? Superstition?
by John Forester
- Derailer
- Why I spell it that way.
- Derailer Adjustment
- How to adjust your derailers.
- Derailers-Front
- What you need to know to select an appropriate front derailer.
- Dura-Ace Interchangeability
- Older Shimano Dura-Ace parts aren't all compatible with newer equipment.
- Dynohubs
- Electrical generators built into the wheel hub.
- NEW! Electric bicycles
- Osman Isvan analyzes power management
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- English/French
Bicycle Dictionary
- Le Vélo-Dictionnaire
- English/Spanish
Bicycle Dictionary
- Spanish/English Bicycle Dictionary
- English 3 Speeds
- Useful tips on servicing these classic bikes.
- Evil Bicycles
- A Satanic conspiracy exposed!
- Europe 75
- Stories and photos of my first trip to Europe, 1975
- Europe 89
- I lived in France for a year, 1988-89
- Fixed Gear for the Road
- Lots of information for people who know that Coasting Is A Pernicious Habit!
- Fixed Gear Conversions
- The nuts and bolts of converting to fixed gear
- Fixed Gear on the Cheap
- Tom Deakins on the cheapest way to go fixed.
- Fixed Gear and Knee Health
- Is fixed-gear riding beneficial to your knees? by Charles Renner
- Fixed Gear Testimonials
- If you don't believe me when I tell you how much fun fixed-gear riding is, read this.
- Flat Tires
- What every cyclist should know about flat tires.
- Forging, Casting & CNC Machining
- Jeff del Papa explains the differences, pros & cons.
- Frame Materials
- Cutting through the myths and folklore.
- Frame Sizing
- Revisionist theory on bicycle fitting. Read this before you buy a new bike!
- Frame Spacing
- Want to put modern gears on an older frame? Spread it!
- France Cycling
- Advice and links for cyclists on touring in FranceBy:
- French bicycles
- Repair, restoration, maintenance and history of French bicycles.
- Freewheels
- Removal and service.
- Front Derailers
- What you need to know to select an appropriate front derailer.
- Gain Ratios
- A new system for designating bicycle gear ratios.
- Gear Calculator
- An online calculator for Gain Ratios, gear inches, metric development.
- Old! Gear Calculation with the Slide rule
- Sometimes a 400 year old instrument is faster than a computer. Geeks only.
- Gear Shifting
- An introduction to using derailer gears.
- Gear Theory
- Thoughts on gear spacing/range issues.
- Sheldon Brown's
Bicycle Glossary
- An huge compendium of bicycle terms, specifications, information, and opinion.
- Hands Up! Raising your Handlebars
- How to get your handlebars higher (or lower) for more comfort.
- NEW! Headsets
- Different stem/headset systems explained.
- NEW! Helmets
- Helmet history, types, wars
- History of Electric Lighting
- by Marty Goodman
- Home-made drop bolts
- New brakes on old frames.
- Humor
- Bicyle silliness
- Inside the Varsity
- Marc Muller reveals the technology of the Chicago Schwinns.
- R.T.Jansen 1979 Catalogue
- French-style custom touring bikes, made in New Hampshire
- Japanese Bicycles
- The 1980s were the Golden Age of Japanese bikes in the U.S..
- Jobst Brandt's FAQ
- A mechanical engineer answers Frequently Asked Questions
- Lambert/Viscount Bicycles
- by Tim McNamara. Lambert and Viscount bicycles of the 1970's, and the death fork.
- Leather Saddles
- Oldies but goodies. Why you want one, how to maintain it.
- Lock Strategy
- Keeping your bike safe, without a ton of hardware.
- Tim MacNamara
- Bicycle fiction from Minnesota
- Mismatched Rims/Hubs
- Building wheels when the hub has more spoke holes than the rim.
- The Myth of K.O.P.S.
- Keith Bontrager debunks an old fitting theory.
- One-Piece Cranks
- The technology of older American-made bikes.
- Pain and Bicycling
- Riding a bicycle shouldn't hurt!
- Paris Brest Paris on Fixed Gear
- by Emily O'Brien
- Physically-Separated Bike Lanes
- Tom Revay explains why these are a Bad Idea.
- NEW! Gene Portuesi's Cyclopedia
- A Blast from the Past!
- Québec
- Je me souviens
- Quick-release Skewers
- Good ones vs. Bad ones.
- Raleigh 3-speeds
- For the collector/restorer.
- Raleigh Interchangeability
- Putting new parts on your old Nottingham Raleigh
- Recumbents
- Four types. Article from 1992
- sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs
- Classic Raleigh Headquarters
- New! Rim Sizing
- Measuring your rim to determine what size tire you need.
- Damon Rinard's Tech Pages
- Damon Rinard's technical pages are now hosted by Harris Cyclery.
- Why Reflectors Don't Work
- Common sense from John Schubert about Lights and Reflectors.
- Saddles
- A comfortable tush.
- Schwinn Fillet-Brazed Lightweights
- Mark Rother on these little known jewels from the Chicago days.
- Seatpost Size Database
- What size seatpost fits what what frame?
If you know, tell me...If you don't know, the answer may be here!
- NEW! Selling Your Old Bike
- Don't throw it away, it could be worth real money.
- Expanded! Internal-Gear Hubs
- Info on multi-speed rear hubs from Shimano, SRAM/Sachs and Sturmey-Archer.
- NEW! Sachs/SRAM Internal-Gear Hubs
- General advice, and links to rebuilding information
- Updated! Shimano Cassettes
- How to get the gears you want, whether Shimano likes it or not!
- Shimano 1973 Dura-Ace Catalogue
- Shimano 1982 Catalogue
- Shimano Dura-Ace Issues
- Older Shimano Dura-Ace parts aren't all compatible with newer equipment.
- Shimano Mega 7 Freewheels
- Shimano re-invents the thread-on freewheel.
- NEW! Shimano Nexus Hubs-Tech
- Adjustment, removing/re-installing the whee. Introduction to several pages about Nexus hubs.
- NEW! Shimano 7-speed hubs
- Servicing information.
- NEW! Shimano Nexus, Alfine 8-speed Hubs
- Servicing information and advice.
- Tom Shaddox
- Tandem fiction.
- NEW! Shoes and pedals
- Choices, compatibility
- Singlespeed Mountain Bikes
- One speed is all you need!
- New! Skewers
- Good ones vs. Bad ones.
- Old! Slide Rules & Gears
- Sometimes a slide rule is faster than a calculator!
- Spam
- Learning to deal with spam by using email filters.
- Spanish/English
Bicycle Dictionary
- English/Spanish Bicycle Dictionary
- NEW! Speeds-Interchangeability
- When does an "n-speed" doohickey work with
an "n+1-speed" frammis?
- Standing
- When should you stand up?
- Starting and Stopping
- Are you doing it right?
- Sturmey-Archer Hubs
- The greatest name in planetary gear systems.
- Sturmey-Archer 1935-38
- Catalogue images from 1935 and 1938.
- Sturmey-Archer 50 Years
- Sturmey-Archer History, 1952
- Straightening Chainwheels
- Bent chainwheels can sometimes be straightened.
- Stuck Seatposts
- Seatpost frozen into your frame? click here!
- The Soul of a Pedicab Chauffeur
- Carl Etiner writes from Oslo.
- Tandems
- A primer for new tandemists.
- Teaching Children To Cycle
- Strategies for teaching your little ones to ride.
- Tires
- Everything you need to know about bicycle tires.
- Tyres
- Everything you need to know about bicycle tyres.
- Tire Rotation
- Should you do it?
- Tire Sizing
- Tire size designations demystified.
- Tool Tips:
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- Touring in Europe
- Charles Hansen'stips for planning a European tour.
- Upgrading Older Bicycles
- A work in progress...
- VAR Tools from France
- A blast from the past, early '80s VAR tools catalogue scans.
- NEW! Bicycle Video
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- Vintage Bicycle Price Guide
- by Mike Kone of Bicycle Classics.
- Wheelbuilding
- Build your own wheels!
Mixed Hubs/rims
Perverse wheelbuilding! Mixed spoke drillings.
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