Call for links to technical resources.

[Tewdric]

I'm going to introduce a third sticky thread* with links to official and definitive technical resources around the web.  It will include the obvious such as Shimano, Campagnolo and Sram tech docs, Mavic tech manual, Park Tools , Sheldon, Jobst Brandt and the like, but if you know of others please post them in this thread.  I'll then compile a seperate sticky to incorporate and reference the best.

*The universal shoe size sticky will become unsticky at the end of the month as everyone who wants to contribute has now had a good chance.

[mark]

In German, but a fairly self explanatory on line gear ratio calculator: http://www.j-berkemeier.de/Ritzelrechner.html

Translate names of bike parts into a bunch of languages: http://bemi.free.fr/biciklo/

Spoke length calculator: http://www.wheelpro.co.uk/spokecalc/

[spesh]

How to strip and rebuild Campag Ergopower levers: http://www.yellowjersey.org/ergo1.html

Also available in PDF: http://www.yellowjersey.org/ergo_ps.pdf

Similar stuff at the Campag fanboi site:

http://www.campyonly.com/howto/ergotech.html
http://www.campyonly.com/howto/ergo_rebuild.html

And for hub gear users: http://hubstripping.wordpress.com/

[Biggsy]

From the depths of my bookmarks (so some pages are very old (but still there)):

Steering Geometry: http://www.phred.org/~josh/bike/trail.html

Analytic Cycling: http://www.analyticcycling.com/

Branford Bike's Knowledge Base: http://branfordbike.com/

Weight Weenies listings: http://weightweenies.starbike.com/listings.php

DT Swiss Spokes Calculator: http://www.dtswiss.com/SpokesCalc/Welcome.aspx?language=en

Tony Hadland's pages: http://www.hadland.me.uk/

My bike makes noises while I ride: http://www.chainreaction.com/noises.htm

Old Bones Technical Stuff: http://bellsouthpwp.net/k/a/kaeru41/TechStuff.htm

Old Bones Graphical Gear Calculator: http://bellsouthpwp.net/k/a/kaeru41/Gearing.htm (use Firefox if it doesn't work with IE)

Nutty's rebuilding ergo shifter: http://www.nuttycyclist.co.uk/cycling/ergo-rebuild.htm

M-Gineering cassette data: http://www.m-gineering.nl/cassettg.htm

CTC Shimergo: http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=3946

Habenero Stem Fit Chart: http://www.habcycles.com/fitting.html

The Dagworth & District Gentlemen's Cycling Society's guide to tyre sizes: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/ddgcs/tyres.htm

Various:
http://www2.bsn.de/Cycling/
http://www.mikebentley.com/bike/index.html
http://promechanics.com/resources/
http://www.m-gineering.nl/techdexg.htm

[Paul Rainbow]

Another good spoke calculator resource - http://lenni.info/edd/

[hatler]

Sorry, I'm no good at bookmarking this kind of thing (or even remembering what it might be called), but there's a great power requirements calculator somewhere. You enter in target speed and then tyre size, head wind, position on bike, gradient, etc etc and it spits out the power required to maintain that speed under those conditions. Anyone ?

[Biggsy]

Sorry, I'm no good at bookmarking this kind of thing (or even remembering what it might be called), but there's a great power requirements calculator somewhere. You enter in target speed and then tyre size, head wind, position on bike, gradient, etc etc and it spits out the power required to maintain that speed under those conditions. Anyone ?

As mentioned above - Analytic Cycling: http://www.analyticcycling.com/

[Rhys W]

Official Campagnolo Youtube channel, how-to videos straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.youtube.com/user/CampagnoloSrl

[Biggsy]

Rob's Briefings (robgul's).

Frame building pictures - from a Dave Yates course.

[Biggsy]

This is technical:

Marijn de Vries ‘How to pee for women’

[mrcharly-YHT]

Wheelbuilding

http://www.jimlangley.net/wrench/wheelbuildfull.html

[Plug1n]

If you are ever wondering what spokes are in that old wheel, then this may be useful - http://www.mrrabbit.net/docs/spokeheads/main.html

[fruitcake]

Fix Me Up magic gear calculator for riding fixed on bikes with vertical dropouts
 Fix me up gear calculator is a program that calculates possible gear sizes for any chainstay length. It takes the trial-and-error out of choosing a sprocket-chainring combination when setting up a single speed or fixed gear, and can calculate magic gears.
 http://eehouse.org/fixin/fixmeup.php
14 Ways to remove a stuck seatpost – by Sheldon Brown www.sheldonbrown.com/stuck-seatposts.html

[fuzzy (retd.) AAGE]

Park Tools repair help- https://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/

[Brucey]

Mike Sweatman's  'Disraeli Gears' website has an enormous archive of documentation related to derailleurs. It also contains good scans of SunTour and Shimano catalogues from the 1980s (amongst other things)

http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Documents_-_an_introduction.html

you can wallow for hours in nerdy retro-tech heaven....

cheers