A Great Loss: Sheldon Brown 1944-2008
Sheldon Brown died of a massive heart attack Sunday night, he was 65 and leaves behind a wife and two children.
Sheldon has been accurately described by many others before me as an encyclopedia of bicycle knowledge, an exceedingly humorous and kind hearted man, and an incomparable resource to the cycling community.
I personally have him to thank for where I find myself today. When I first become interested in fixing bikes there was no greater boon to my education than the rich compendium of articles on his decidedly old-school website. It’s still a more accessible, funnier, and more thorough collection of bicycle information than anything on my bookshelf. His dedication to sharing his passion was fuel for my own, and for that I am grateful.
Known throughout online bicycle communities to provide warm and quick responses to questions, I now wish I had taken the time to express how invaluable his vast knowledge and compulsion to share was to me.
We are so much poorer without him.