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Seat tube: the roughly vertical tube in a bicycle frame running from the seat to the bottom bracket; Seat bag: a small storage accessory hung from the back of a seat; Seatpost: a post that the seat is mounted to. It slides into the frame's seat tube and is used to adjust ride height depending how far into the seat tube it is inserted
Bottom bracket bearings fit inside the bottom bracket shell, which connects the seat tube, down tube and chain stays as part of the bicycle frame. The term "bracket" refers to the tube fittings that are used to hold frame tubes together in lugged steel frames [ 1 ] which also form the shell that contains the spindle and bearings; the term is ...
A separate airtight inner tube enclosed by the tire supports the tire carcass and maintains the bead lock. An advantage of this system is that the inner tube can be easily accessed for a patch repair or replacement of the tube. The ISO 5775-2 standard defines designations for bicycle rims. It distinguishes between Straight-side (SS) rims
The 'diamond' frame's central, horizontal top bar forces the rider to swing a leg over the bicycle's seat. A Triumph step-through, ladies', or open frame Dursley Pedersen bicycle circa 1910 A penny-farthing photographed in the Škoda Auto Museum in the Czech Republic A Brompton folding bicycle Bicycle in Victorian Plymouth, England, with a predecessor of the Starley diamond-frame A cantilever ...
The Dunlop valve, (also called a Woods valve, an English valve or a Blitz valve [1]) is a type of pneumatic valve stem in use—mostly on inner tubes of bicycles—in many countries, including Japan, [2] Korea, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, most European countries, and a number of developing countries.
Harry Dacre was the pen-name of Frank Dean (September 1857–16 July 1922), [1] [2] [3] a British songwriter best known for his composition "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built For Two)". Biography [ edit ]