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123 points lemoing | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 11:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source

Hey folks!

A bit of background: I'm a software engineer by trade, but I'm currently on sabbatical doing a year-long working holiday in Australia. I love riding bikes but only had the most beginner-level knowledge of them before I found a job at a bike shop. This was a fun personal project to try to capture some of what I've learned so far, targeted at fellow beginners. It's going to be incomplete/lacking if you already have some bike knowledge, but I hope you all enjoyed it all the same.

Please keep the feedback coming; it's late in Australia, but I want to make sure the bike info is at least accurate, if not comprehensive!

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jonesjohnson ◴[24 Aug 25 14:25 UTC] No.45004494[source]▶
It's a fun little project and I appreciate the effort you put in, but I found it hard to "consume".

As already written, the text takes too long to show up. Why not have a mouse-over and show a full block of text?

I think it would have been great, if the effort went into something more "useful", like improving/cleaning up something like Sheldon Brown's collection, which is already great.

Furthermore, so many things are missing and unclear

- you seem to show only a ahead stem. I'm missing the spacers.

- you're missing the Dunlop valve and the new Schwalbe Click Valve

- your selection/explanation of wheel sizes also leaves much to be desired. Having someone finally explain the ETRTO sizings to me ( and that both 28" and 29" wheels use 622mm rims ) was eye-opening

I know that it's hard to draw the line somewhere and that this should be a site for beginners. but still

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1. MikeTheGreat ◴[24 Aug 25 20:14 UTC] No.45007370[source]▶
Agree about the slow text reveal.

Having a mode to automatically, instantly, "just show me already" would be good.

If you want it to look fancy maybe have all the text fade-in over the course of the animation? Once the parts are all in place you'd then see all the text.