John has revised information on belt drive to cover the Gates Carbon Drive.
Tag: bicycle
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 a worn chain needs replacement using a ruler marked off in centimeters? We’ll show you how! (Inches too, of course.)
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.
SBC American Way Bicycles
New! 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!
iPad app references sheldonbrown.com
The recently-released iPad app Cyclepedia is for the most part a very slick, enhanced presentation of 100 bicycles in a historical collection ranging from 1920 to the present. The photography is superb, the bicycles are of many different types, and the app makes full use of the iPad to rotate and zoom the images, even to swipe images of folding bicycles to see how they fold. Cyclepedia was app of the week in the UK iPad store. It references sheldonbrown.com for further technical information.
Sun Tour bicycle components
Several additions to the Sun Tour article, especially about freewheels.
Fixed articles fixed!
Fixed articles fixed! Sheldon kept an older version of his fixed-gear articles online so as not to break Web links from other sites. These articles are now updated to the same content as the newer version.
Addition to wheelbuilding page
New information in the wheelbuilding page about removing the bend from spokes where they exit the hub flange…
