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SB Gear Calculator 'feature'

Kyle.B.H · 2004-04-01T02:22:11+00:00

I've discovered what appears to be a useful and undocumented feature of Sheldon Brown's Gear Calculator. When you input a combination of crank length, chainrings, cassette, etc... and click "Calculate", a new window appears with the resulting chart. Now, if you leave that window open, and go back to the first window and change a variable, perhaps choose another cassette, and click "Calculate" - the new chart appears in the other window below the previous calculation results! It appears that you can do this a number of times, and it will continue to append the new calculation to the same page as the old one! Maybe this was a well known fact - but I sure thought it was cool when I stumbled upon it. Very useful for comparing chainring/cassette options. Sheldon - perhaps you should make a note of this capability on the main Gear Calculator page? Kyle

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Published: 1 April 2004
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Kyle.B.H
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1 April 2004, 02:22 UTC #1

I've discovered what appears to be a useful and undocumented
feature of Sheldon Brown's Gear Calculator.
When you input a combination of crank length, chainrings,
cassette, etc... and click "Calculate", a new window appears
with the resulting chart.
Now, if you leave that window open, and go back to the first
window and change a variable, perhaps choose another
cassette, and click "Calculate" - the new chart appears in
the other window below the previous calculation results! It
appears that you can do this a number of times, and it will
continue to append the new calculation to the same page as
the old one!
Maybe this was a well known fact - but I sure thought it was
cool when I stumbled upon it. Very useful for comparing
chainring/cassette options.
Sheldon - perhaps you should make a note of this capability
on the main Gear Calculator page?
Kyle

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Sheldon Brown
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1 April 2004, 04:21 UTC #2

Kyle.B.H said:
I've discovered what appears to be a useful and
undocumented feature of Sheldon Brown's Gear Calculator.
sheldonbrown.comgears
Quoted message said:
When you input a combination of crank length, chainrings,
cassette, etc... and click "Calculate", a new window
appears with the resulting chart.
Now, if you leave that window open, and go back to the
first window and change a variable, perhaps choose another
cassette, and click "Calculate" - the new chart appears in
the other window below the previous calculation results!
It appears that you can do this a number of times, and it
will continue to append the new calculation to the same
page as the old one!
Maybe this was a well known fact - but I sure thought it
was cool when I stumbled upon it. Very useful for
comparing chainring/cassette options.
Sheldon - perhaps you should make a note of this
capability on the main Gear Calculator page?
Gooolll-leee! I never noticed it would do that!
Not sure it works for all browsers, but I just tried it with
Safari and indeed that's what happens. I must be a genius!
sheldonbrown.comgears
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James Thomson
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1 April 2004, 04:21 UTC #3

"Sheldon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:
Not sure it works for all browsers, but I just tried
it with Safari and indeed that's what happens. I must
be a genius!
Quoted message said:
sheldonbrown.comgears
It also works in IE6. I'd always assumed it was intentional.
James Thomson

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Eric H
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1 April 2004, 06:21 UTC #4

In article <[email hidden]>,
Sheldon Brown said:
Not sure it works for all browsers, but I just tried
it with Safari and indeed that's what happens. I must
be a genius!
I'll say. Leave it to you to put a slide rule on the WWW.
Eric, who suspect it's more accurate than the old Win95
calculator...
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"I never had to pretend I felt the lyrics. I could always
relate to the words."
-- Teddy Pendergrass

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Rick Onanian
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1 April 2004, 15:21 UTC #5

James Thomson said:
"Sheldon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:
Not sure it works for all browsers, but I just tried it
with Safari and indeed that's what happens. I must be a
genius! sheldonbrown.comgears
It also works in IE6. I'd always assumed it was
intentional.
In Opera it replaces the contents of the results window with
the new results. Works great in Mozilla, though. I could
swear it didn't work in Mozilla...I printed a bunch of
charts a couple weeks ago using Mozilla, but I must have
closed the window each time.
Cool. Now I can waste more paper per hour on gear charts
that I'll never get around to reading or implementing...
--
Rick Onanian

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Jeff Starr
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1 April 2004, 16:22 UTC #6

Sheldon Brown <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:
Kyle.B.H said:
I've discovered what appears to be a useful and
undocumented feature of Sheldon Brown's Gear Calculator.
sheldonbrown.comgears
Quoted message said:
When you input a combination of crank length,
chainrings, cassette, etc... and click "Calculate", a
new window appears with the resulting chart.
Now, if you leave that window open, and go back to the
first window and change a variable, perhaps choose
another cassette, and click "Calculate" - the new chart
appears in the other window below the previous
calculation results! It appears that you can do this a
number of times, and it will continue to append the new
calculation to the same page as the old one!
Maybe this was a well known fact - but I sure thought it
was cool when I stumbled upon it. Very useful for
comparing chainring/cassette options.
Sheldon - perhaps you should make a note of this
capability on the main Gear Calculator page?
Gooolll-leee! I never noticed it would do that!
Not sure it works for all browsers, but I just tried
it with Safari and indeed that's what happens. I must
be a genius!
sheldonbrown.comgears
Works that way in Netscape 7.1
Life is Good! Jeff

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