Pictures from this year’s Larz Anderson Bike Fair and Bike Swap can be found at
http://sheldonbrown.com/Larz2011/
More updates
John Allen has done some revisions to the articles on tires/tyres and added more information on GPS to the article on cyclecomputer calibration.
Sun Tour components
John has done a major update and expansion of Sheldon’s article on Sun Tour components.
Larz Anderson Bike Fair – 8/20/2011
Remember the Larz Anderson Bike Fair and Bike Swap:
http://sheldonbrown.com/images/bikeswap.pdf
Stuck seatposts
John has added information on yet another way to remove a stuck seatpost — dissolving it using a strong chemical.…
GoPro HD Helmet Hero camera
John’s review of this popular camera is still a work in progress (no pictures yet) but is ready enough to make public.
Flats
John has made a few revisions to Sheldon’s page on flat tires. More to come…
New search function
Google shut down the search function that our site had been doing for years, to prevent spammers from using it. We have replaced it with a different function, which works. This is not yet in place on all pages — patience, please!
Page updates
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, …
