John has expanded and updated the article on cotterless cranks.
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Five Ways to Produce a Picture in Picture in Avid Studio Ultimate
Sheldon’s photography and videography tradition continues! The Windows video editing application Avid Studio Ultimate has five different modules which can produce a picture-in-picture effect. Each offers somewhat different features, and it is important to know them all so as not to be stuck using one which is less convenient for your purposes. This new article offers a table with a detailed feature-by-feature comparison.
Sutherland’s Handbook of Coaster Brake and Internally-Geared Hubs
Sutherland’s handbook of Coaster Brake and Internally-Geared Hubs is now online on this site. Many thanks to Howard Sutherland for permission to post this! The site now covers just about any of these hubs which you might ever have to work on.
Expanded coaster-brake coverage
Coverage of coaster brakes on sheldonbrown.com has been greatly expanded, now including all the most common models, old and new.
Video editor review
Continuing work to provide useful information to bicyclists using helmet cameras (and others editing video on home computers), John has written an extended review of Avid Studio and Pinnacle Studio video editing applications. This review contains much useful information on getting up the learning curve in Avid Studio, which is very powerful but has some serious gaps in the Help and user manual.
Now in Chinese — 中国
Phil Feng has translated three articles into Chinese — more to come:
Bicycle Brake Choices
About Bicycle Brakes with Brazed-on Fittings
Tire Sizing Systems
Maintaining Bike Friday hinges
Friends, here’s a new article giving step-by-step instructions for maintenance of Bike Friday hinges:
http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-friday-hinge.html
A question remains: how tight to tighten the bolts.They press the frame tabs against the barrel of the hinge. Probably not too, too tight.
More about belt drive
John has revised information on belt drive to cover the Gates Carbon Drive.
Bicycle video: new article, and updates
John has added an article on the Deshaker image-stabilization plugin for the free Windows application VirtualDub, and has updated and expanded the generic article on image stabilization and the one on the GoPro helmet camera.
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.)
