Sheldon Brown

Baseball players have Babe Ruth, golfers have Tiger Woods, bike mechanics have Sheldon Brown. I have never met Sheldon Brown but I have seen him at various trade shows. He's one of those people that you just can't miss even in a crowd of people. He will alway be one of my favorite mechanics.

NEWTONVILLE, MA (BRAIN)—Sheldon Brown, who could explain the intricacies of 40-year-old Sturmey Archer hubs with the same patient clarity with which he would explain suspension or integrated shifters, died from a sudden heart attack Sunday night. His death was unrelated to the progressive multiple sclerosis that had kept him off his bikes since September 2006. Most bicyclists encountered Brown through his technical writing on the Harris Cyclery Web site, www.harriscyclery.com, where he was webmaster and general tech guru for the West Newton, Massachusetts retailer.

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