Sheldon Brown 1944-2008

[MichaelJ]

Sheldon Brown reportedly died of a heart attack this past Saturday night. His contributions to the cycling community will not be forgotten.

Some links:
http://thedailyrandonneur.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/sheldon-brown-1944-2008/
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/sheldon-brown-1944-2008-14433
http://blogs.townonline.com/newton/?p=19172
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Brown_(bicycle_mechanic)

 

[bvibert]

Don't forget his own website:
http://sheldonbrown.com/home.html

A sad day for cycling. I've gotten plenty of info from his website in the last couple of years that I've been MTBing seriously

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Didn't he play for the Eagles?

 

[MichaelJ]

Ever-so-slightly-different-Sheldon Brown...

 

[Marc]

That's too bad. The guy had a real good website.

 

[Paul]

Didn't he play for the Eagles?

I totally had to do a double-take when I saw this thread.

#24

 

[skizilla]

huge loss to the local and world community

I met the guy a couple times and relied heavily on his web prescense for news repairs and random bicycle facts truly a loss.

 

[mlctvt]

Sheldon was a great educator and a nice guy too. He was the go to guy for anything bike hardware related. A virtual walking encyclopedia on bicycle hardware. I was just on his website a few days ago checking out specs on old quill stems for a replacement needed for my 1994 era Trek 5200. I learned a lot from his resources. Let's hope someone can take over from him? He was much too young to go.

 

[MichaelJ]

A really nice article about Sheldon in today's Boston Globe.