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2. Hybrid bicycle - Wikipedia

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   Hybrid bicycles blend characteristics from more specialized road bikes, touring bikes and mountain bikes. [1] The resulting "hybrid" is a general-purpose bike that can tolerate a wide range of riding conditions and applications. Their stability, comfort and ease of use make them popular with novice cyclists, casual riders, commuters, and children.

3. 29er (bicycle) - Wikipedia

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   29ers or two-niners are mountain bikes and hybrid bikes that are built to use 700c or 622 mm ISO (inside rim diameter) wheels, commonly called 29″ wheels. [1] Most mountain bikes once used ISO 559 mm wheels, commonly called 26″ wheels. The ISO 622 mm wheel is typically also used for road-racing, trekking, cyclo-cross, touring and hybrid ...

4. Bicycle frame - Wikipedia

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   Frame Size Calculator - a simple frame size calculator tool; Metallurgy for Cyclists - discusses frame material properties in relation to suitability to frame use; BikeCAD program allows you to design your own frame online. Frame Sketcher Archived 2021-04-27 at the Wayback Machine is a simple HTML5 app which allows to sketch and compare frames ...

5. Bicycle and motorcycle geometry - Wikipedia

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   a 2006 Tete de Course, designed for road racing, with a head angle that varies from 71.25° to 74°, depending on frame size. Due to front fork suspension, modern mountain bikes —as opposed to road bikes —tend to have slacker head tube angles, generally around 70°, although they can be as low as 62° (depending on frame geometry setting).

6. List of bicycle types - Wikipedia

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   The city bike differs from the familiar European city bike in its mountain bike heritage, gearing, and strong yet lightweight frame construction. It usually features mountain bike-sized (26-inch) wheels, a more upright seating position, and fairly wide 1.5–1.95-inch (38–50 mm) heavy belted tires designed to shrug off-road hazards commonly ...

7. Fixed-gear bicycle - Wikipedia

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   A track bicycle or track bike is a form of fixed-gear bicycle optimized for racing at a velodrome or at an outdoor track. Some road racing and club cyclists use a fixed-gear bicycle for training during the winter months, generally using a relatively low gear ratio, believed to help develop a good pedalling style. [5]

8. Gear inches - Wikipedia

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   Gear inches is one way of measuring the gear ratio(s) of a bicycle, so that different gears and different bicycles can be compared in a consistent manner. Gear inches is an imperial measure corresponding to the diameter in inches of the drive wheel of a penny-farthing bicycle with equivalent ( direct-drive ) gearing.

9. Bicycle suspension - Wikipedia

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   Bicycle suspension is the system, or systems, used to suspend the rider and bicycle in order to insulate them from the roughness of the terrain. Bicycle suspension is used primarily on mountain bikes, but is also common on hybrid bicycles. Bicycle suspension can be implemented in a variety of ways, and any combination thereof: Front suspension