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Author Archives: John
Expanded coaster-brake coverage
Coverage of coaster brakes on sheldonbrown.com has been greatly expanded, now including all the most common models, old and new.
Posted in Updates
Tagged antique, Bendix, bicycle, Centrix, classic, coaster brake, Hawthorne, J.C. Higgins, Karat, mattatuck, Morrow, Musselman, New Departure, Perry, Resilion, Sachs, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, shimano, SRAM, Steyr, Sturmey-Archer, SunTour, Torpedo
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Video editor review
Continuing work to provide useful information to bicyclists using helmet cameras (and others editing video on home computers), John has written an extended review of Avid Studio and Pinnacle Studio video editing applications. This review contains much useful information on … Continue reading
Posted in Updates
Tagged Avid, edit, editing, inset, picture in picture, Pinnacle, Pinnacle Studio, Pinnacle Studio 16, pip, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, software, video
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Now in Chinese — 中国
Phil Feng has translated three articles into Chinese — more to come: Bicycle Brake Choices About Bicycle Brakes with Brazed-on Fittings Tire Sizing Systems
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Tagged bicycle, bowden cable, brake, Chinese, coaster brake, Rollerbrake, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, tires, tyres, 中国
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Maintaining Bike Friday hinges
Friends, here’s a new article giving step-by-step instructions for maintenance of Bike Friday hinges: http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-friday-hinge.html A question remains: how tight to tighten the bolts.They press the frame tabs against the barrel of the hinge. Probably not too, too tight.
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Tagged bicycle, Bike Friday, Crusoe, hinge, Llama, lubrication, maintenance, new World tourist, Pocket rocket, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com
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Video makes a debut
John has put a video on the fenders page. Many more to come!
More about belt drive
John has revised information on belt drive to cover the Gates Carbon Drive.
Bicycle video: new article, and updates
John has added an article on the Deshaker image-stabilization plugin for the free Windows application VirtualDub, and has updated and expanded the generic article on image stabilization and the one on the GoPro helmet camera.
Posted in Updates
Tagged Deshaker, edit, editing, image stabilization, pip, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, software, stabilization, stailization, video, Virtualdub
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Fenders
John has made major additions to the article on fenders. It now covers some additional points and has many more photo illustrations.
Chains
Major update to our article on chain maintenance — bicycle chain was developed in the U.K. and is dimensioned in inches. Most of the world including the U.K. has gone over to the metric system. How do you tell whether … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, chain, derailer, gearing, gears, lubrication, maintenance, oil, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, wax
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Upgrading old road bikes
I’ve filled out and Harriet has formatted Sheldon’s page about upgrading old road bikes, which Sheldon left as a work in progress.
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Tagged bicycle, bottom bracket, cassette, chain, cranks, crankset, derailer, derailleur, frame spacing, gearing, gears, hub, internal, internal-gear, maintenance, repair, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, upgrading
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