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On March 1, 2004, SRAM purchased Avid, a designer and manufacturer of bicycle brake components. Its current line-up includes mechanical disc brakes, rim brakes, levers, cables and maintenance products for a range of uses including MTB and cyclocross. They also produce two road bike disc brakes.
Brakes: Diacompe, single pivot side-pull Rims: Araya 27 × 1.25, 36 count spokes Hubs: Shimano Crank: Sugino Super Maxy Seat stem: LaPrade Non-standard equipment: handlebars, saddle, chrome cable guides, rear rack. This is a list of Japanese bicycle brands and manufacturers — as well as brands with models manufactured in Japan.
Mountain biking (abbr. MTB) is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, usually using specially designed mountain bikes.Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain, such as air or coil-sprung shocks used as suspension, larger and wider wheels and tires, stronger frame materials ...
The design only allowed for a single front disc brake so a comparatively large 330 mm disc was mated to a six-piston caliper, a world first on a production bike. [9]: 28 The traditional axial caliper mount began to be unreliable when slick tires were introduced, so motorcycles began adopting radially mounted calipers from Formula One car racing.
The KH250 was a "parts bin" bike for the U.S. market, it had the new KH250 styling but retained the drum brake from its predecessor the S1c, the new disc braked KH250 never made it to the U.S. market and faded away during 1976 leaving only the KH400 left in the triple lineup. Both models continued to be available in Europe and elsewhere until 1980.
Hayes Brake, (stylized as HAYES), is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin designer and manufacturer of disc brakes and disc brake systems for non-automotive applications, including Hayes Disc Brake specialising in disc brakes for bikes.
The front brake was a massive 10 in (250 mm) magnesium casting. In 1968, Münch used the new 1177 cc NSU TTS car engine for a revised machine, which he called the Münch4 1200TTS. The new engine gave 88 hp, and the machine was prone to break the heavy-duty spokes on the rear wheel, so Münch developed a unique and much stronger cast magnesium ...
Upon introduction, the XS Eleven immediately earned a reputation as a heavy, very powerful, and reliable bike. It was the first production bike in 1978 posting a sub-12 second 1/4 mile time (11.78 sec. @ 114.21 mph with a top speed of 135 mph - Cycle World 2/78), only to be surpassed in the 1/4 mile performance later in 1978 by Honda's CBX.