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Posted by ostacke 10 hours ago

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info(www.sheldonbrown.com)
273 points | 65 commentspage 3
chromatin 7 hours ago|
When I was a young(er) postdoc and had to overhaul my bicycle -- my main transportation to work-- this site was invaluable. Forever grateful to Sheldon.
jannniii 5 hours ago||
So happy to see this featured here! Had been tinkering with bikes a long time before finding Sheldon’s site, but when I did I was dumbstruck by the amount of insight. And to top that, what a person he was. RIP
diggyhole 7 hours ago||
Thank you for sharing. This is wholesome as f*ck.
sorbusherra 6 hours ago||
i worked as a bicycle mechanic when I got completely tired of it-world. This website saved my ass numerous times while fixing bicycles. Absolutely legendary webdesign also that just works well.
tetris11 7 hours ago||
I'm so glad they went back to the old design.

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

carabiner 8 hours ago||
Random tidbit, his daughter is a researcher/mathematician at OpenAI.
hackingonempty 8 hours ago|
...and his widow, Harriet Fell, is a CS Professor (emerita) at Northeastern[0], and an accomplished cyclist who completed Paris-Brest-Paris (a 1200km ride and to qualify you have to complete 200km, 300km, 400km, and 600km rides in the 8 months leading up to it.)

0: https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/fell/

djmips 16 minutes ago|||
Let's hear it for Harriet! Keeping the website going. I wonder if it has a long term plan?
foco_tubi 7 hours ago||||
For PBP2027 you have all of 2026, as well as 2027 leading up to registration, to complete the required BRMs.

I'm riding my qualifying 300k tomorrow!

dan-bailey 6 hours ago|||
Oh thank god. I was planning on a 200km, 300km, and 400km this year, all as mental preparation, and then having to blitz next year by traveling to warmer locales. I I'm doing my 200km at the end of April, and my 300km in early July, followed by a 400km gravel in early August. Going to be a grind.

Good luck tomorrow!

eschneider 6 hours ago||
Nice! Old me and my old bike are sticking to 200kms this year. :)
mikestew 4 hours ago||||
Allez! Allez! Bonne chance pour demain!
cos2pi 7 hours ago||||
Allez!
markstos 7 hours ago|||
Good luck!
steve_adams_86 6 hours ago||||
I tried qualifying for PBP with some friends and we were fried on the 600. We did some longer rides, but never so intensively and without rest. Such good times. Maybe one day (likely when my kids are grown) I'll try again. I still dream of eating so much French food after annihilating myself on a bicycle. It sound incredible.
bobchadwick 6 hours ago||||
I'm never going to ride in the Paris-Brest-Paris, but someday I'm gonna make a Paris-Brest pastry: https://www.seriouseats.com/paris-brest-pate-a-choux-with-pr...
rindalir 4 hours ago|||
I TA’ed for Harriet, she’s awesome!
sebnukem2 5 hours ago||
A web site as old as the internet, and still relevant.
shrubby 7 hours ago||
Still awesome.

And the web design!

FpUser 6 hours ago||
Used to be my worship place along with the crazyguyonabike and Ken Kifer
gashad 5 hours ago|
Ken Kifer wrote a bunch of amazing bicycle content! Here's a mirror of his pages: https://www.phred.org/~alex/kenkifer/www.kenkifer.com/
neoromantique 4 hours ago|
Ask HN: How does one archive websites like this without being a d-ck?

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?

OJFord 3 hours ago||
A single user's one-off recursive wget seems fine? Browsers also support it iirc, individual pages at very least (and saved to the same place, the links will work).

No doubt it's already in many archive sites though, you could just fetch from them instead of the original?

neoromantique 3 hours ago||
I ask in more general sense, if there is a way to fetch this stuff directly from webarchive or something along those lines.

Gotta hit the search I feel :)

ssl-3 1 hour ago||
In the old-web days, I just used wget with slow pacing (and by "pacing" I mean: I don't need it to be done today or even this week, so if it takes a rather long time then that's fine. Slow helped keep me from mucking up the latency on my dial-up connection, too.)

I don't think that's being a dick for old-web sites that still exist today. Most of the information is text, the photos tend to be small, it's all generally static (ie, light-weight to serve), and the implicit intent is for people to use it.

But it's pretty slow-moving, so getting it from archive.org would probably suffice if being zero-impact is the goal.

(Or, you know: Just email the dude that runs it like it's 1998 again, say hi, and ask. In this particular instance, it's still being maintained.)