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2. Derailleur - Wikipedia

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   Campagnolo Super Record rear derailleur (1983) Shimano XT rear derailleur on a mountain bike Pulley wheels for a rear derailleur. The rear derailleur has two functions: it moves the chain between rear sprockets while taking up chain slack caused by moving to a smaller sprocket at the rear or a smaller chainring by the front derailleur.

3. Fork end - Wikipedia

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   A special tool exists to measure and correct misaligned hangers. On frames with no derailleur hanger, a direct mount derailleur or derailleur with a hanger plate is used. These only fit bikes with horizontal dropouts and are held in place by a small bolt and the rear wheel axle. These have now been effectively superseded by the derailleur hanger.

4. Fixed-gear bicycle - Wikipedia

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   The derailleur hanger (below the axle) and an eyelet (above the axle) for mounting a fender or rack, both integral parts of the original frame, are now unused. Many cyclists choose to convert freewheel bicycles to fixed gear. Frames with horizontal dropouts are straightforward to convert, frames with vertical dropouts less so. [62]

5. Cogset - Wikipedia

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   On a bicycle, the cassette or cluster [1] is the set of multiple sprockets that attaches to the hub on the rear wheel. A cogset works with a rear derailleur to provide multiple gear ratios to the rider. Cassettes come in two varieties, freewheels or cassettes, of which cassettes are a newer development. Although cassettes and freewheels perform ...

6. SunTour - Wikipedia

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   A Suntour Sprint rear derailleur A front derailleur manufactured by Suntour a pair of Suntour road brakes. In 1964, Suntour invented the slant-parallelogram rear derailleur. The parallelogram rear derailleur had gained prominence after Campagnolo's introduction of the "Gran Sport" in 1949, [7] [8] and the slant-parallelogram was an improvement of it that allowed the derailleur to maintain a ...

7. Shimano - Wikipedia

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   Shimano, Inc. (株式会社シマノ, Kabushiki-gaisha Shimano), originally Shimano Iron Works (島野鐵工所) and later Shimano Industries, Inc. (島野工業株式会社), is a Japanese multinational manufacturing company for cycling components, fishing tackle and rowing equipment, which also produced golf supplies until 2005 and snowboarding gear until 2008.