Remembering Sheldon Brown
Yesterday I celebrated the two-year anniversary of being with my sweetheart. Were it not for bikes and bike cultural gatherings, we might not have met. I was reminded of another anniversary this morning - but it's a sad one.
Bicycle lover, promoter and preserver, Sheldon Brown passed away a year ago today.
I am not a mechanically-inclined person, but I appreciated his accessible, informative and humourous approach to the mechanical world of bicycles.
If you are already a Sheldon Brown fan you are familiar with sheldonbrown.com. For those of you who are new to Brown, his legacy lives on in hundreds (thousands?) of entries in this all-encompassing website.
I especially enjoyed his Bicycle Humour and the information he shared about himself and his beautiful family
Here's hoping that generations of new cyclists will share the Joy that Sheldon had for bicycling and life.
Perhaps we should declare July 14 (his birthday in 1944 in Boston) as Sheldon Brown Day - a day on which we ensure our bikes are properly fitted and mechanically sound, share a little bit of bike knowledge with a stranger, and then go out and enjoy a fabulous bike ride and experience the world.
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Sheldon Brown
I never met Sheldon in person ( my loss) but had spoken to him a number of times on the phone ordering stuff from Harris Cyclery.
I have been asked if I was Sheldon more times than I can remember because I have a full beard and a helmet full of feathers.
At a New England Mountain Bike Association NEMBA FEST event I was asked if I was Sheldon three times in a mater of minutes.
I spoke with Sheldon a few days later and told him about it.
He asked me if my beard was pink.
I said "Pink"? "No, just reddish going to gray".
Sheldon then tells me that his beard is now pink.
I miss him dearly.