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• invented MTB on his road bike, then never bought one
• taught Tom Ritchey how to ride
• never owned more than one bike
• only rode steel
• 10k miles a year including a month riding the Swiss Alps every year
• never carried a water bottle, only drank from fresh springs
• never wore a helmet
• bought a Porsche, was so disgusted by the technical manual he showed up at the plant and insisted he be hired to re-write it
• after being put on their racing team, the car was so fast it won a championship
• got rid of his Porsche
• publicly criticized Porsche
• bought station wagons to transport bicycle
• invented slick road clinchers
• took pic related for Avocet to prove they had better cornering traction
• named Avocet, designed the logo, and gave them the products that made them relevant
• knew that quill stems were inferior, praised threadless
• rode 7 speed, because the hub design was better
• downtube friction shifters
• tried racing, thought it was stupid
• dedicated himself to "touring"
• (which for him meant 150 mile rides through mountains on a steel road frame with no water)
• forced Tom Ritchey to replace all the broken tubes on his colnago
• let millionaire Ritchey build him a frame only after most of the tubes had been replaced by him
• crashed it and got someone else to build his next frame
• (Ritchey was allowed to supply the stem)
• Wrote an entire book about bicycle wheels making wild claims about the nature of physics itself
• Book is incomprehensible even to engineering professors
• Hated anonymous commentators
• stuck around his newfag-ridden cycling forum to tear them new assholes
• every shitpost archived by fans
• had zero romantic feelings about bicycles and called bike lovers "religious fanatics"
• hated "conspicuous consumption" including "hot rod" carbon bicycles
• kept the secret trails he found when riding secret, shared only with a select few hardcunts
• died a hero after one last cycling crash
RIP Sheldon
