Sheldon "I ain't dead yet" Brown appreciation thread!

Sheldon's been posting recently! Woo Hoo!

I bet there's not one among you that's not been helped by the goodly
feller's resources.

I just wanna know, is Sheldon riding *anything* now, considering his
MS, and if he is, what baddass mods does said vehicle have!!

Come on' Sheldon, you say the disease is just waist down--so your
noggin is good, what kind of cool new crazy ya got going on now??

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landotter wrote:

Sheldon's been posting recently! Woo Hoo!

I bet there's not one among you that's not been helped by the goodly
feller's resources.

I just wanna know, is Sheldon riding *anything* now, considering his
MS, and if he is, what baddass mods does said vehicle have!!

Come on' Sheldon, you say the disease is just waist down--so your
noggin is good, what kind of cool new crazy ya got going on now??

He doesn't make a big deal about it, but he does still update his
medical journal. He's more or less limited to riding his Greenspeed
trike at bike-path speeds due to balance issues, be he's still riding
that!

http://sheldonbrown.org/journal/health.html

Many of his riding details can be gleaned from "The Bright Side of MS":

http://sheldonbrown.org/ms.html

I sometimes give recumbents and their champions a lot of stick, but the
recumbent trike is really working well for Sheldon. Okay, a bit of
stick: he says it's great for riding really slowly .

Sheldon's dirty secret: handicapped parking spots really are as good as
you suspect: "This feature alone makes the whole thing almost
worthwhile!"

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"My scenarios may give the impression I could be an excellent crook.
Not true - I am a talented lawyer." - Sandy in rec.bicycles.racing

landotter wrote:
Sheldon's been posting recently! Woo Hoo!

I bet there's not one among you that's not been helped by the goodly
feller's resources.

I just wanna know, is Sheldon riding *anything* now, considering his
MS, and if he is, what baddass mods does said vehicle have!!

Come on' Sheldon, you say the disease is just waist down--so your
noggin is good, what kind of cool new crazy ya got going on now??

His website has been invaluable to me. Best part is, I've used it as
resource mainly when fixing up friends old bikes while teaching them
everything I've learned about bike mechanics. I'd say I've gotten at
least 7 people cycling some of the time (2 or 3 of those ride a lot)
thanks to him.

All the best to ya, Sheldon!
\\paul

landotter wrote:
Sheldon's been posting recently! Woo Hoo!

Brown nose!

I bet there's not one among you that's not been helped by the goodly
feller's resources.

Yeah, but will garage mechanics in Rogers, Arkansas admit to it?

I just wanna know, is Sheldon riding *anything* now, considering his
MS, and if he is, what baddass mods does said vehicle have!!

Come on' Sheldon, you say the disease is just waist down--so your
noggin is good, what kind of cool new crazy ya got going on now??

I thought Sheldon was riding his Greenspeed trike, due to its
self-balancing nature.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"Localized intense suction such as tornadoes is created when temperature
differences are high enough between meeting air masses, and can impart
excessive energy onto a cyclist." - Randy Schlitter

Tom Sherman wrote:
landotter wrote:
Sheldon's been posting recently! Woo Hoo!

Brown nose!

I bet there's not one among you that's not been helped by the goodly
feller's resources.

Yeah, but will garage mechanics in Rogers, Arkansas admit to it?

I just wanna know, is Sheldon riding *anything* now, considering his
MS, and if he is, what baddass mods does said vehicle have!!

Come on' Sheldon, you say the disease is just waist down--so your
noggin is good, what kind of cool new crazy ya got going on now??

I thought Sheldon was riding his Greenspeed trike, due to its
self-balancing nature.


If Sheldon is riding his trike, it's a good thing. And about self
balancing aspect of trikes, a while back I was out riding and ran into a
guy riding a Catrike that admitted that he used to ride two wheeled
bikes but had a stroke and had balance issues but wanted to start riding
again so he bought the trike and loved being able to ride again.

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:02:23 -0500, Just A User
wrote:

If Sheldon is riding his trike, it's a good thing. And about self
balancing aspect of trikes, a while back I was out riding and ran into a
guy riding a Catrike that admitted that he used to ride two wheeled
bikes but had a stroke and had balance issues but wanted to start riding
again so he bought the trike and loved being able to ride again.

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how to put together a tadpole on
a shoestring for a friend who has balance issues. The problem at my
end is that I don't have access to the kind of machine shop
capabilities that I'd need for any of the potential solutions that I
know how to execute, and I have to provide a physically robust result
because there's a significant initial load to carry. Trying to get
the most critical assembly (the steering axle) by itself from one of
the existing manufacturers has been an exercise in frustration; none I
have contacted has yet been willing to even quote me a price for just
that portion.

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Werehatrack wrote:
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:02:23 -0500, Just A User
wrote:

If Sheldon is riding his trike, it's a good thing. And about self
balancing aspect of trikes, a while back I was out riding and ran into a
guy riding a Catrike that admitted that he used to ride two wheeled
bikes but had a stroke and had balance issues but wanted to start riding
again so he bought the trike and loved being able to ride again.

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how to put together a tadpole on
a shoestring for a friend who has balance issues. The problem at my
end is that I don't have access to the kind of machine shop
capabilities that I'd need for any of the potential solutions that I
know how to execute, and I have to provide a physically robust result
because there's a significant initial load to carry. Trying to get
the most critical assembly (the steering axle) by itself from one of
the existing manufacturers has been an exercise in frustration; none I
have contacted has yet been willing to even quote me a price for just
that portion.


They do look like it would be a serious challenge to build one from
scratch with out a really good machine shop. You might want to try
looking here for articles on home built trikes : http://www.ihpva.org/
and you might try the message board for homebuilders over at
http://www.bentrideronline.com/ some have successfully built homebrew
trikes, so it is possible.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/DIY/1...bent-Bike.aspx
http://www.motherearthnews.com/uploa...4-02_01-01.jpg
http://www.motherearthnews.com/uploa...-162-01tab.jpg
http://www.motherearthnews.com/uploa...162-01tab1.jpg
http://www.motherearthnews.com/uploa...081-162-03.jpg
http://www.motherearthnews.com/uploa...081-162-02.jpg

On Dec 11, 11:14 am, Werehatrack wrote:
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:02:23 -0500, Just A User
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Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how to put together a tadpole on
a shoestring for a friend who has balance issues. The problem at my
end is that I don't have access to the kind of machine shop
capabilities that I'd need for any of the potential solutions that I
know how to execute, and I have to provide a physically robust result
because there's a significant initial load to carry. Trying to get
the most critical assembly (the steering axle) by itself from one of
the existing manufacturers has been an exercise in frustration; none I
have contacted has yet been willing to even quote me a price for just
that portion.

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On Dec 10, 10:35 pm, landotter wrote:

Come on' Sheldon, you say the disease is just waist down--so your
noggin is good, what kind of cool new crazy ya got going on now??

Forget waist down- riding a recumbent trike will make you wear funny
socks:
http://home.comcast.net/~jeff_wills/...es/river11.htm
and give you bad hair:
http://home.comcast.net/~jeff_wills/...es/track07.htm

Come to think of it, Sheldon would probably appreciate some hair:
http://sheldonbrown.org/journal/imag...y-5-16-07b.jpg

Jeff

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:40:45 -0500, Just A User
may have said:

Werehatrack wrote:
...I'm still trying to figure out how to put together a tadpole on
a shoestring for a friend who has balance issues. The problem at my
end is that I don't have access to the kind of machine shop
capabilities that I'd need for any of the potential solutions that I
know how to execute, and I have to provide a physically robust result
because there's a significant initial load to carry. Trying to get
the most critical assembly (the steering axle) by itself from one of
the existing manufacturers has been an exercise in frustration; none I
have contacted has yet been willing to even quote me a price for just
that portion.


They do look like it would be a serious challenge to build one from
scratch with out a really good machine shop. You might want to try
looking here for articles on home built trikes : http://www.ihpva.org/

I look at that one periodically to see if any new useful ideas have
been posted, but so far it hasn't resulted in much. The information
is good, but I keep seeing things that either aren't going to make the
grade on strength, or require tooling I don't have.

and you might try the message board for homebuilders over at
http://www.bentrideronline.com/ some have successfully built homebrew
trikes, so it is possible.

That's one I hadn't seen before; I'll give it a look.

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