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Cool & Useful Bike Stuff on the Web
December 14, 2008 | 
Author Cool & Useful Bike Stuff on the Web
The late Sheldon Brown was the king of web pages devoted to helping cyclists. He had useful lists, photos, and gadgets scattered all over his website. I have used his gear calculator a time or two; as well as his aptly named, Wild Guesses of value for Selected Vintage Lightweights.
More cool stuff I like
David Mann’s Bike Frame Geometry Project is an ever-expanding database of bike frame angles and other useful data.
Joel’s collection of obscure brake photos and info.
Vintage Treks very EcoVelo-like in my book are covered thouroughly here.
Here’s a site devoted to Bike E recumbents. It’s interesting to me that long after a for-profit company has gone belly up, people will give freely of their time and resources to perpetuate the brand and provide valuable information. I’m not making any political statement here, just thinking out loud.
For iBOBs and other bikelist.org subscribers, Jim’s iBOB Mailing List Reader has to be the coolest thing out there. I use it every day.
There are too many calculators to list but let me put in a plug for this Mac OS X spoke calculator.
If you have something special in your bookmarks, please share it with us.
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More Cyclists = Safer Cycling
Lower cycling fatalities always seem to follow increasing cycling shares. From Tom Vanderbilt’s How We Drive blog:
Over at BikePortland, there were some interesting numbers from the PDOT: “In 2008, there were 140 “traffic injuries” to individuals on bicycles. That’s down from 196 in 2007 and it’s the lowest number since the survey was taken in 1999. The same goes for pedestrian injuries; there were 123 in 2008, down from 191 in 2007. There was also a major drop in the amount of individuals injured while operating an automobile; the survey reports 4,428 injured, compared to 5,429 in 2007.”
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