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(The web page hasn't been updated much for a while because Sheldon died several years ago.)

It's kept upto date by employees of the bike shop he worked for (Harris Cyclery), his widow, and his friend John Harris (a nationally recognized bicycle expert). The most recent post was about 3 weeks ago: https://sheldonbrown.com/blog/

Yeah, that's why I qualified it with "much." Trying to provide some context for HN readers unfamiliar with Sheldon.

I am absolutely delighted to see Sheldon Brown's website posted on HN! It is an incredible resource.

This was the website that made me fall in love with the World Wide Web and the “old Internet”. In the mid to late nineties, I was big into biking and liked to do my own bike maintenance. I came across Sheldon’s wonderful site (probably via Alta Vista) some time after a friend brought me to an Internet café and introduced me to the web. I still have a folder with all the pages I printed out so I could read it at home.

RIP: https://sheldonbrown.com/blog/2022/02/03/its-been-14-years-n...

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