Video editor review

Posted on December 4, 2012 by John

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 getting up the learning curve in Avid Studio, which is very powerful but has some serious gaps in the Help and user manual.

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Now in Chinese — 中国

Posted on November 20, 2012 by John

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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Maintaining Bike Friday hinges

Posted on July 30, 2012 by John

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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Video makes a debut

Posted on July 11, 2012 by John

John has put a video on the fenders page. Many more to come!

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More about belt drive

Posted on June 14, 2012 by John

John has revised information on belt drive to cover the Gates Carbon Drive.

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Bicycle video: new article, and updates

Posted on June 13, 2012 by John

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.

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Fenders

Posted on June 2, 2012 by John

John has made major additions to the article on fenders. It now covers some additional points and has many more photo illustrations.

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Chains

Posted on May 27, 2012 by John

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 a worn chain needs replacement using a ruler marked off in centimeters? We’ll show you how! (Inches too, of course.)

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Upgrading old road bikes

Posted on April 24, 2012 by John

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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SBC American Way Bicycles

Posted on April 1, 2012 by John

US FlagNew! Exclusive! Now thanks to ShelBroCo, you can OWN the urban bicycle of your dreams! Take your stand for the American Way! Read all about this exciting new development!

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