Major upgrade to our page on repair of leather saddles – Complete do-it-yourself information.
Update to saddle-repair page
Tag: bicycle
Bicycle generators
A brief history of bicycle lighting
Updated and expanded: a brief history of bicycle lighting, from candle lamps to LEDs.
Updates to chainline and frame-spacing pages.
As of 2018, fatbikes and disk brakes have led to several new axle-length standards. The problem of disk brakes’ pulling the hub out of the front dropouts has been addressed with thru axles, which insert into a fork with a hole rather than a slot at the end of each blade. Our chainline page and cribsheet as well as our frame spacing page and cribsheet are now updated to cover these developments.
Sheldon’s bicycle pages
Harriet has neatly reformatted Sheldon’s bicycle page. Read all about ’em. I find the page about his Greenspeed recumbent especially interesting. Who but Sheldon would be extolling the advantages of a low-rider tadpole recumbent tricycle for off-road riding?
Gear Calculator updated!
Our gear calculator is now updated to cover the newest cassettes from Shimano, SRAM and SunRace. — Still to update: the French- and German-language versions.
Video interview!
Melanie Morris from Somerville (Massachusetts, USA) Community Television will interview Harriet Fell and John Allen about Sheldon Brown — and it will be available over the Internet. Go to https://www.somervillemedia.org at 7 PM EST Monday February 5 (00:00 Tuesday February 6, UTC). The show will be rebroadcast at 9:30 PM EST Tuesday February 6 (02:30 February 7, UTC) and will later be archived for on-demand viewing.
Sheldon Brown memorial service
For the 10th anniversary of Sheldon’s death, we are posting video of his mamorial service. You may it view it here or click to view it on YouTube.
Video of aluminum bicycle frame presentation
Now, a video to go with Harriet Fell’s article recently published on sheldonbrown.com: her presentation on the MIT aluminum bicycle frame project at the 2016 International Cycle History Conference.
MIT aluminum bicycle project, 1974
New post: the MIT aluminum bicycle project, 1974, where modern aluminum bicycle frames got their start as student Marc Rosenbaum’s thesis project. sheldonbrown.com site owner Harriet Fell built one of the original MIT aluminum bicycle frames, it came to be an exhibit in a Klein vs. Cannondale lawsuit — and she still rides it!
