I think Sheldon Brown’s impact is a valuable lesson on sustainable engineering and the enormous role documentation plays in it
It's not as comprehensive, and more corporate than Sheldon's site, but I currently love Park Tool's youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@parktool). They shamelessly mention their tools, but they frequently give alternatives like, you can get this park tool for pushing your disc brake pads back into place, or you can just use a plastic tire tool.
There was a point a few years back where someone did a site revamp with modern CSS and all that horrible jazz in clear attempts to monetize this incredible resource.
Happy to hear they reverted
And the web design!
I want to save this for offline use, but I think recursive wget is a bit poor manners, is there established way one should approach it, get it from archive somehow?
I would highly recommend anyone into bicycles to try building their own wheel using his article.
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> To update an old saying, 28 grams of prevention are worth 454 grams of cure.
A fantastic resource!
No doubt it's already in many archive sites though, you could just fetch from them instead of the original?
Friends don’t let friends put aluminum posts in steel frames. Especially if those friends ride in the rain instead of wussing out and calling for someone to pick them up.
I ended up writing my thesis on bicycle wheels after this. Or, it's a thesis on optimization algorithms, but I managed to play around with optimizing wheels as the "real world application". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10410813
Time is strange.
PS, interesting to note that Mr Brown seemed to be quite a fan of sci-fi books: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/books.html
Gotta hit the search I feel :)
I'm riding my qualifying 300k tomorrow!
Good luck tomorrow!