Newbie website recommendation?

Hi Folks,

Sorry if this is an often-asked question, but I'm new to building/upgrading
bikes and I was wondering if anybody had any good websites that would take
me through the basics (explaining sizes/compatibility issues and general
terminology)?

TIA

Steve

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Hi Folks,

Sorry if this is an often-asked question, but I'm new to
building/upgrading bikes and I was wondering if anybody had any good
websites that would take me through the basics (explaining
sizes/compatibility issues and general terminology)?

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/articles.html

Perfect. Thanks.

You need to download OE-QuoteFix. It will stop your top-posting.
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

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Perfect. Thanks.

Steve

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Hi Folks,

Sorry if this is an often-asked question, but I'm new to
building/upgrading bikes and I was wondering if anybody had any good
websites that would take me through the basics (explaining
sizes/compatibility issues and general terminology)?

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/articles.html

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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:32:48 GMT, "Stavros Blairos" <[email hidden]>

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Perfect. Thanks.

Steve

A good supplement to the Brown site-

http://www.parktool.com/repair_help/FAQindex.shtml

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Hi Folks,

Sorry if this is an often-asked question, but I'm new to
building/upgrading bikes and I was wondering if anybody had any good
websites that would take me through the basics (explaining
sizes/compatibility issues and general terminology)?

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/articles.html

DRS said:

You need to download OE-QuoteFix. It will stop your top-posting.
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

Funny, I use QF but keep it configured to default top-posting. I usually
snip out extraneous stuff, so it's actually MORE of a PITA to have to scroll
up and then back down. (Plus I prefer my e-mail defaulted to top, and there
was no way to set them separately that I could figure out.)

For some reason my spell-checker doesn't kick in automatically (still works
in e-mail), but otherwise OE-QF is pretty cool, especially for the
color-coded quoting which makes this easier to decipher.

Bill "QF alone won't 'cure' top-posting, IMO" S.

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DRS said:

You need to download OE-QuoteFix. It will stop your top-posting.
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

Funny, I use QF but keep it configured to default top-posting. I
usually snip out extraneous stuff, so it's actually MORE of a PITA to
have to scroll up and then back down.

Each to his own, I guess. Having it set to automatically bottom-post not
only stops top-posting but also those people who like to bury comments deep
in the bowels of a long post but not snip the extraneous trailing material.

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(Plus I prefer my e-mail
defaulted to top, and there was no way to set them separately that I
could figure out.)

That's an interesting point. Emails traditionally are treated differently
to NNTP messages in that they tend to be contiguous entities rather than
point by point responses, so what would be top-posting on Usenet is
acceptable for email.

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For some reason my spell-checker doesn't kick in automatically (still
works in e-mail), but otherwise OE-QF is pretty cool, especially for
the color-coded quoting which makes this easier to decipher.

I love the colour-coding.

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