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Bike geometry parameters: wheelbase, steering axis angle, fork offset, and trail. Bicycle and motorcycle geometry is the collection of key measurements (lengths and angles) that define a particular bike configuration.
Handlebar: a lever attached, usually using an intermediary stem, to the steerer tube of the fork. Allows steering and provides a point of attachment for controls and accessories; Handlebar plug: see Bar plugs; Handlebar tape: a tape wound around dropped handlebars so as to provide padding and grip, usually cork or cloth, sometimes foam rubber
A motorcycle handlebar is a tubular component of a motorcycle's steering mechanism. Handlebars provide a mounting place for controls such as brake, throttle, clutch, horn, light switches and rear view mirrors; and they help to support part of the rider's weight. Even when a handlebar is a single piece it is usually referred to in the plural as ...
A moustache handlebar as seen from the top of the bike. Moustache handlebars curve forward from the stem and then back towards the rider. This style was designed in the early 90s by Grant Petersen for the Bridgestone XO-1, based on the semi-drop bars used by schoolchildren in Japan.
Bucking bike (with one or more eccentric wheels) Tall bike (often called an upside down bike, constructed so that the pedals, seat and handlebars are all higher than normal)—other types of tall bikes are made by welding two or more bicycle frames on top of each other, and running additional chains from the pedals to the rear wheel.
Amal subsequently became partly owned by IMI Group, and the product range was expanded to include handlebars and controls with full IMI ownership by the middle 1960s. [1] It was sold after June 1973 [40] to Grosvenor Works Ltd of North London - a supplier of fuel system components. Under Grosvenor some of the most popular obsolete ranges were ...
A handlebar is part of the steering mechanism, in lieu of a steering wheel, for vehicles that are ridden on, such as: Bicycle handlebar; Motorcycle handlebar; Handlebar may also refer to Handlebar moustache, a type of moustache; Handlebars (template system), a Javascript library to build semantic templates "Handlebars" (song), a song by the Flobots
Yamaha was an early innovator in dirt-bike technology, and introduced the first single-shock rear suspension, the trademarked "Monoshock" of 1973. [12] It appeared in production on the 1974 Yamaha YZ-250, a model which is still in production, making it Yamaha's longest continuous model and name.