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Tag Archives: bicycle
Update to saddle-repair page
Major upgrade to our page on repair of leather saddles – Complete do-it-yourself information.
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Tagged bicycle, Brooks, Idéale, leather, maintenance, repair, Rivet, saddle, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com
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Bicycle generators
Generators for bicycle lighting — new article by guest author Frank Krygowski. Advantages and disadvantages compared with batteries; types, history, installation.
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Tagged battery, bicycle, Busch & Müller, Dynohub, generator, Halogen, headlamp, headlight, hub, incandescent, LED, light-emitting diode, Miller, shelbroco, Sheldon, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, Sturmey-Archer, taillamp, taillight
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged 10-speed, 11-speed, 12-speed, 7-speed, 8-speed, 9-speed, bicycle, bottom bracket, Campagnolo, chainline, fatbike, MTB, road bike, shelbroco, Sheldon, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, shimano, SRAM
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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?
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Tagged bicycle, gearing, gears, hub, internal-gear, MTB, off-road, Rohloff, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, tires
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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.
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Tagged 29er, 32 inch, 36 inch, 7-speed, 8-speed, 9-speed, bicycle, bicyclette, braquets, calculator, children, cranks, development, Entfaltung, Fahhrad, fatbike, gain, gain ratio, gear inches, gearing, GPS, internal-gear, length, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, vélo
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, Harriet Fell, interview, John Allen, Melanie Morris, SCATV, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, Somerville, video
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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.
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Tagged Aaron Harris, Arlene Eskilson, bicycle, chantey, death, funeral, George Brown, Harriet Fell, John Allen, Lynn Noel, memorial, music, Nym Cooke, Revels, Richard Brown, sailing, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com
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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.
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Tagged aluminum, bicycle, bottom bracket, frame, Harriet Fell, Marc Rosenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Shawn Buckley, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, track bicycle, video
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged aluminum, bicycle, bottom bracket, frame, Harriet Fell, Marc Rosenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Shawn Buckley, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, track bicycle, video
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