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.
LIGERTAIL widget
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 quality and relevant for them. We are currently trying out this widget on the site’s main index page. http://sheldonbrown.com/index.html. If it proves to be of interest to readers of the site, we will add similar widgets to various topics index pages, e.g. wheels, tandems, …
Bike swap in Brookline August 20
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.
Sheldon’s Adventure Cyclist articles
John has created a table of contents page for the articles which Sheldon wrote for the Adventure Cycling Association’s magazine, Adventure Cyclist, from 1997 through 2007. Many of these articles relate to ones on this site, and John is adding links and in some cases revising the related articles on this site. For example, the article on fenders has undergone major revisions.
Repair of Shimano STI Drop-Bar Brake/Shift Levers
These levers no longer index properly when the grease inside gums up — and the internals are very complicated. John Allen has posted an article describing several approaches to repair of these levers, and with a link to an expert in rebuilding them.
Repair of Shimano STI Drop-Bar Brake/Shift Levers
A reader’s video shows what it’s all about
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.
The bicycle already has endured some 30 years, and it will probably still be running long after today’s top-of-the-line carbon fiber bicycles have splintered.
The rebuilder’s tools and technique clearly also went through an upgrade. A hammer, punch and drilled clock of wood are used to break the old chain; a proper chain tool to install the new one. There is less and less use of adjustable wrenches as the video progresses.
There’s some riding on the sidewalk near the end of the video, next to a wall with doors in it. Suggested follow-up upgrade: a reading of my Bicycling Street Smarts!
Shoes and pedals
John Allen has written a new article on this topic, which Sheldon oddly did not cover. Read to the end, though, to learn something you may not have expected about Sheldon’s preference in cycling footwear.
Buying and selling
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 for Harriet by selling off some of Sheldon’s LARGE collection.
gloss_ha-i.html
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 to take one small step in making the site easier to manage.There are several other such long entries in the glossary.
varsity-shaddox.html
Minor edits, a tag line and a photo added to Tom Shaddox’s article about the Schwinn Varsity.
