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Articles For Download to your PDA
by Sheldon "Handspring" Brown

This is a bit of an experiment. I don't really know if people want to read my articles on their PDAs, so I'm putting a few of them up. If you like them and want more, let me know These files are in .sit format. If your computer has trouble unpacking them, you can download Stuffit Expander for free.

These files were created with iSilo Mac, and work with the iSilo reader software.

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Glossary (227k)

http://sheldonbrown.com/glossary

My Magnum Opus. Not as useful without the illustrations and tables, but still chock full of info.

Frame Materials (8k)

http://sheldonbrown.com/frame-materials.html

Exploding some of the myths, folklore and B.S. you may have heard about frame materials.

Gear Shifting (10k)

http://sheldonbrown.com/gears.html

Everything You Wanted To Know About Shifting Your Bicycle's Gears,
But Were Afraid To Ask.

This is an introduction to gear shifting, and the basics of how a derailer works. How, why and when to shift gears.

Vintage Lightweight Guide (49k)

http://sheldonbrown.com/vrbn-a-f.html

Michael Kone of Bicycle Classics comments on various vintage road bikes.

The specific price info is guesswork from 1997, but there's still lots of good info here.

SpocalcExpress (16k)

http://sheldonbrown.com/rinard/SpocalcExpress.xls

SpocalcExpress spoke length calculator has no hub database, no rim database, no instructions, no macros -- just the calculations that operate on the numbers you enter.

Great for Quicksheet on your Palm.

Wheel Building (38k)

http://sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html

You can build your own bicycle wheels!

Thousands of people have used the this article to learn wheelbuilding, and you can too!

Other Bicycle-Related PDA Resources on the Web

Bikini	Software and D.I.Y. instructions to turn your Palm into a cyclecomputer.
MobileBikes.net	An AvantGo channel with weekly news, tips, etc.
Bikemagic.com	An AvantGo channel from Britain.
Chain Reaction	An AvantGo channel with articles by Mike Jacoubowski of Chain Reaction Bicycles

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