RIP Capt Bike
Sadly, Sheldon Brown has died from a massive heart attack at the age of 63. He had been diagnosed with MS recently, and it had greatly limited his biking. The words “encyclopedic” (though he was indeed the Encyclopedia Brown of bicycling) or “comprehensive” to describe the enormous amount of cycling wisdom Sheldon Brown put into his website are wholly inadequate. I never met the man nor corresponded with him, but I learned so much from his site and his presence on mailing lists. My deepest sympathies go out to his family, and the cycling/human-powered vehicles/whatever you want to call it community has suffered a truly enormous loss. I am very sad.