R.I.P. Sheldon

Hopefully Harris Cycleworks will keep his site up, I can't think of any more fitting tribute for him

Very sad,his site was a great help to many.

I am stunned,a sad loss to the cycling community and the Brown family. RIP

Brilliant Guy

Thanks for the help with my first bottom bracket removal.

Fettle In Peace.

Taught me so much from the site. Will be sorely missed.

Oh no. I am in the middle of converting to a single speed using his site as my bible.

He'll be missed by so many. I can't imagine how influential he has been.

He is alive in our memory.

R.I.P. , Eagle

Rest in Peace Sheldon, thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us... you will be missed by so many people.

Let us hope that his memory can live on with his website.

RIP

Very sad, the man was a legend, he lived for the bike and thrived on helping others.

He will be missed. :(

R.I.P Sheldon

A true legend. The most helpful patient and thoughtful writer, cyclist and person I have come across.

My condolences to his family and all of his friends. It is a great loss to world to hear of him passing. A truly wonderful human being. I have learn a lot from the example he set.

Thank you Captain Bike.

RIP Sheldon Brown.

Deepest Condolences to his family and close friends.

A truly great man, a terrible loss to the world and a sad day for cycling.

A sad loss - his knowledge was seemingly limitless and I doubt that there is a single forum member who has not turned to his website for advice.

Condolences to his family and friends

If anyone is in Vancouver Canada, we are having a memorial ride for him.

If you go to http://sheldonbrown.blogspot.com/ you can put up info about wakes or rides, or leave goodbye messages for him.

RIP Sheldon.

Sheldon will be missed. He took the time from his busy schedule to reply to an email I sent him last year. My sincere sympathy goes out to his wife and kids. I know he wanted to live, and I am so sorry he lost his battle. He touched millions of lives, and his legacy will live on. The world just lost a great guy.

I knew Sheldon as a Gilbert & Sullivan performer - did you know he sang & acted? The call was out for a push wheelchair he could use in the upcoming Sudbury Savoyards production - even PPMS couldn't keep him off the stage!

We talked of getting together on our trikes (I have MS too)... I'm sorry it never happened.

Never knew him, just knew of him from so many different places. A great loss.

A sad day indeed. What Sheldon didn't know about bicycles wasn't worth knowing. Ride on fella!

I've never actually met the man, but I kept going back to his website from time to time, year after year, and after a while I thought of him as somebody I knew, like a friend.

I got a mail from him just like Cyclingroberto to my question - there was no one else I could have asked it.

Amatuer cycling legend and saviour. His web site gave me the confidence to fix my own bike more often than not. I hope the website continues in his name.

I am saddened by Sheldon Browns untimely death. I never met the man but felt I knew him in some way through his help with my early days of bike mechanics. I regularly visited his site which seemed to have everything you would ever need to know. He will be sorely missed.

I do hope that the comments expressed in all of these posts are passed on to his family. They offer a fitting tribute to the man.

He was an Encyclopaedia of cycling knowledge.

Forever I've know of this legend, have read his stuff, and he's been an inspiration to try things, tinker with my bike, etc.

There won't be another like Sheldon!

Sheldon 'taught' me how to build wheels. RIP.

That is a real tragedy. Me and my dad built up our first bike together using advice almost exclusively gleaned from Sheldon's website. Sheldon even answered my two email questions to him (gear cabling and brakes). Cycling needs characters like Sheldon and I for one will miss him. I hope his website remains, it's a great legacy.

Roll on Sheldon. Someday we all hope to catch up.