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123 points lemoing | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 11:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | 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. lemoing ◴[24 Aug 25 22:20 UTC] No.45008310[source]▶
I disabled the text animation for now since I can see how it would be frustrating. Maybe later I’ll go back to a line-by-line reveal since I still like the aesthetic!

Content-wise, some of this stuff I’m still learning about and hope to fix/correct, and some of it just won’t fit into a page, nor do I really want to force too much content into it and risk it not being accessible to noobs like me. Like you said, you have to draw the line somewhere and there was always something more I could have added.