[klum]

This is my favorite kind of website. An individual going into depth on a topic they're passionate (in the true sense of the word) about. Another example is Dan's Motorcycle Repair Web page [1]. A collection of such websites would be awesome.

[1] http://dansmc.com/

[marttt]

Here's another, ultimate bike derailleur geekery -- Disraeli Gears: https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site/home.html

[mlacks]

truly awesome how many ways you can go deep into something. Would have never thought to spend so much time on derailleurs

[lkbm]

The blessing and the curse of the Internet. A few years ago, I was getting new bicycle tires and fellow overly analytic bicycle nerds had built a machine to measure the rolling resistance and puncture resistance of each tire[0], so I of course I "had" to spend hours pouring over all the different options.

This was probably a more sensible use of my time than when I spent hours trying to determine which pedals I should get. Is there a reason to get low profile? Oh, this one is 20 grams lighter--oh, but some people report it breaking more than this other one.

To quote on of the best article titles of all time, reality has a surprising amount of detail.

[0] https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/

[jacquesm]

That site is gold. I've had one that was a complete mystery, it all looked and felt perfect but still, it didn't work. I was tempted to toss it and replace it but the fact that it was a vintage Campagnolo made replacing it extremely expensive and I couldn't even find a proper replacement. So in the end I figured out what the problem was and ended up repairing it.

[zampano]

Me too! I'm a big fan of Rob Robinette's guitar amp page [1] for similar reasons

[1] https://robrobinette.com/Amp_Stuff.htm

[alexjplant]

robrob is basically a real-life Buckaroo Banzai... amp technician, car/motorcycle enthusiast, world helicopter champion, sharpshooter, sysadmin, ham, and owner of at least one Kei truck. We can all only hope to be as cool as him when we grow up.

[suncemoje]

I started checking out Dan's Motorcycle Repair Web page, expecting to read about Motorcycle Repair, and the first thing I do read about is the Bible. Good lord!