Industry Pioneer Howard Sutherland dies

Bicycle Retailer & Industry News posted this sad news:

July 15, 2024: OAKLAND, Calif. (BRAIN) — Longtime industry veteran Howard Sutherland, who authored a seven-edition bike repair book that was a mainstay on bike shop workbenches for decades, died June 19.

He was 75.

He wrote and self-published Sutherland's Handbook for Bicycle Mechanics, which compiled data on non-standard bike components. For his book and other inventions, Sutherland was honored with an NBDA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.

When working at the Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative in Berkeley, California, he developed a passion for helping bike shops run efficiently, which would contribute to getting more people on bikes. During a 40-year career, he often biked to his office in Emeryville bordering the Bay and he lived for several years in the early 1980s on a boat in Berkeley Marina. He continued working within a mile of the shore until advancing Parkinson's disease required moving to assisted living in 2016.

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