Category Archives: Updates

Page updates

Posted on July 14, 2011 by John

John has updated chains.html, with some added thoughts about chain cleaning, and more pictures; also leather.html, with a couple of comments from readers about leather treatments; k7.html and k8.shtml to reflect changes in product availability.

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LIGERTAIL widget

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Harriet

LIGERTAIL has built a widget that turns all visitors into advertisers, allowing them to submit their content for free or pay for placement. The website’s community curates the widget and filters out irrelevant content, leaving the stuff that’s of high … Continue reading →

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Bike swap in Brookline August 20

Posted on July 3, 2011 by John

There will be a big bike swap and flea market at the Larz Andersen estate in Brookline, Massachusetts on Saturday, August 20, 2011. Details are here. Sheldonbrown.com will be there, again selling off items from Sheldon’s collection.

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A reader’s video shows what it’s all about

Posted on April 30, 2011 by John

A reader has posted a very nicely-produced short video about upgrading of an older steel-frame bike. This kind of project is exactly what sheldonbrown.com is about. http://vimeo.com/22731816 The bicycle already has endured some 30 years, and it will probably still … Continue reading →

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Buying and selling

Posted on April 14, 2011 by John

John has updated and expanded the file on selling bicycles to include additional resources and to say more about selling, and components as well as bicycles. Much of the new information was gathered in the process of making more room … Continue reading →

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gloss_ha-i.html

Posted on April 9, 2011 by John

This glossary page had a very long entry for headsets,  information recently updated and expanded in a separate article. I shortened the glossary entry to get it out of the Department of Redundancy Department (one of Sheldon’s favorite quips) and … Continue reading →

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varsity-shaddox.html

Posted on April 9, 2011 by John

Minor edits, a tag line and a photo added to Tom Shaddox’s article about the Schwinn Varsity.

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Tires/Tyres

Posted on April 9, 2011 by John

John has done minor editing on tires.html and its British English clone.

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flats.html

Posted on April 8, 2011 by John

John updated the page on repair of flat tires, also adding some new tricks, checking links etc. http://sheldonbrown.com/flats. html

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Harriet Fell’s updates to the site

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Harriet

While John is plugging away at adding new material to the site, I continue to work on cleaning up the code. I had started converting files to XHTML but I am now converting to HTML5 instead. I am trying to … Continue reading →

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