Harris Cyclery aka Sheldon Brown

[woollypigs]

Sad day, hope someone keeps the site going

Sad news for cyclists all over the world: the famous Harris Cyclery in Boston USA is closing  permanently on June 13. Many a beginner (and indeed veteran) mechanic has relied on the archived cycle knowledge of its most famous staff member, Sheldon Brown harriscyclery.net[

We are hopeful that Sheldon's website sheldonbrown.com will continue to be supported despite Harris's closure. This would be a sad loss for people caring for their cycles and understanding how these amazing machines operate.
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https://twitter.com/London_Cycling/status/1403416722112122887

[quixoticgeek]

Kim,

wget -m

J

[andrewc]

Very sad.   I became an "adult" cyclist in the late 80's/early 90's & discovered the internet at about the same time.  Sheldon was a constant on Usenet & the website a great source of information & inspiration.  I built my first wheels following his instructions & diagrams.

[hatler]

I've been to the Harris Cyclery. This is very sad news.

[Tim Hall]

The first time I broke the Sram 3 x 7 on my Pino I had trouble getting a replacement central shaft for it. I ended up getting in touch with Sheldon, I think I even spoke to him on the phone. He had good news and bad news. Good news was he had a whole box of misc Sachs/Sram spares. Bad news was they were all unlabeled. I sent him a photo of the required part, marked up with dimensions. He had one. It wasn't listed on his website, so, as per his instructions, I had to order Part Number Special and put in the comments "Sheldon has this on his desk." It arrived at my house in the UK all the way from Massachusetts a few days later .

[Peter]

I've often wondered if the character in "The Big Bang Theory" was called Sheldon because of his knowledge of everything, like Brown of the ilk.  It is certainly a terrific website.  I occasionally revise from it so I don't look like an idiot in front of my friend Torslanda!

[FifeingEejit]

It's where I learnt to do stuff before park Tool put Calvin on you tube.
It's still where I learn stuff that isn't common enough for park tool to have out Calvin on you tube with.

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[woollypigs]

Kim,

wget -m

J

Good thinking, been running for 12 hours atm, nearly 1.3 Gb and 9000 files atm. I will zip it up and give it to the people if wanted

[Kim]

Kim,

wget -m

Running...

[quixoticgeek]

Kim,

wget -m

Running...

Thanks. I'm nowhere near my computer at the moment, else I'd do it myself.

Thanks to all those mirroring.

J

[neilrj]

Kim,

wget -m

J

Good thinking, been running for 12 hours atm, nearly 1.3 Gb and 9000 files atm. I will zip it up and give it to the people if wanted

Me please if it is a format that Win10 understands - yes I know I'm using Micro$hift but I'm not clever enough for other stuff. Or a tutorial on how to copy it all in W10.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Sad news.

I've often wondered if the character in "The Big Bang Theory" was called Sheldon because of his knowledge of everything, like Brown of the ilk.  It is certainly a terrific website.  I occasionally revise from it so I don't look like an idiot in front of my friend Torslanda!

I've never seen The Big Bang Theory but have nevertheless assumed this to be the case.

[jsabine]

Sad news.

I've often wondered if the character in "The Big Bang Theory" was called Sheldon because of his knowledge of everything, like Brown of the ilk.  It is certainly a terrific website.  I occasionally revise from it so I don't look like an idiot in front of my friend Torslanda!

I've never seen The Big Bang Theory but have nevertheless assumed this to be the case.

Disappointingly wikishit says no:

The character of Sheldon Cooper was inspired by a computer programmer personally known to series co-creator Bill Prady.[15] He is named in honor of actor/producer Sheldon Leonard[16] and Nobel Prize Laureate Leon Cooper.

Can hardly fathom that it was 2008 that he died - that's 13 years

[ScumOfTheRoad]

Remembering when Sheldon passed on a good few years ago..   we collected donations for community theatre and passed them on to the London Bubble Theatre as I remember.
We made up bike stickers - Sheldon is my CoPilot if I'm not wrong.

[Pedal Castro]

Kim,

wget -m

J

Good thinking, been running for 12 hours atm, nearly 1.3 Gb and 9000 files atm. I will zip it up and give it to the people if wanted

Me please if it is a format that Win10 understands - yes I know I'm using Micro$hift but I'm not clever enough for other stuff. Or a tutorial on how to copy it all in W10.

+1 

[Jurek]

Remembering when Sheldon passed on a good few years ago..   we collected donations for community theatre and passed them on to the London Bubble Theatre as I remember.
We made up bike stickers - Sheldon is my CoPilot if I'm not wrong.

Zipperhed organised the stickers IIRC - I still have mine.
We went on a memorial ride.
It snowed.

[MartinC]

Kim,

wget -m

J

Good thinking, been running for 12 hours atm, nearly 1.3 Gb and 9000 files atm. I will zip it up and give it to the people if wanted

Oh, yes please.  Lots of invaluable stuff in there.  You're doing the world a favour,

[quixoticgeek]

https://twitter.com/sheldonbrowncom/status/1404430359979343878

Latest news.

J

[Solocle]

Kim,

wget -m

J

Good thinking, been running for 12 hours atm, nearly 1.3 Gb and 9000 files atm. I will zip it up and give it to the people if wanted

Me please if it is a format that Win10 understands - yes I know I'm using Micro$hift but I'm not clever enough for other stuff. Or a tutorial on how to copy it all in W10.

+1 

Should work if you install the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Windows feature)

[rogerzilla]

13 June, to be precise.  It looks as if sheldonbrown.com will keep going at the moment.  Anither specialist bike shop gone, as we move further towards box-shifters who just want you to buy a new bike.  Having said that, Harris was pretty useless for UK customers due to enormous shipping charges, as with most US shops.

[quixoticgeek]

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=119546.0