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This page lists notable bicycle brands and manufacturing companies past and present. For bicycle parts, see List of bicycle part manufacturing companies.. Many bicycle brands do not manufacture their own product, but rather import and re-brand bikes manufactured by others (e.g., Nishiki), sometimes designing the bike, specifying the equipment, and providing quality control.
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.
Inter 5 - Apparently in 2012 Shimano has started making Nexus Inter 5 hubs. A forum discussion [6] contains a link to one [7] of two [8] parts lists at Shimano. Range reportedly 0.75 to 1.545 for a total range of 206%. A glance on the Web confirms: Pricing seems to be near Inter 3, availability in the US seems limited.
Shimano: Alfine SG-700 2010 2017 [9] 11 409% n/a 1600-1744 g [12] [13] [14] City, Sport Shimano Alfine SG-500 2006 2016 (?) [15] 8 307% 1600 g City Shimano Nexus Inter-8: 8 307% 5th gear 1550-2040 g City Shimano Nexus Inter-7: 1995 7 244% 1465-1860 g City Shimano Nexus Inter-5E 2019 5 263% 60 Nm 1st gear 1650 g e-bike Shimano Nexus 4 Speed 4 ...
DASH America (trading as PEARL iZUMi USA) purchased the trademark from Dave Jacobs (founder of Spyder, and the original distributor of PEARL iZUMi in the USA). Originally held by a group of private investors, the company was sold to Nautilus Inc. in 2005, who then sold it to Shimano in 2008. Shimano sold the company to United Sports Brands in 2022.
A Rohloff Speedhub hub gear A Shimano XT rear derailleur on a mountain bike A bicycle gearbox with chain tensioner. Bicycle gearing is the aspect of a bicycle drivetrain that determines the relation between the cadence, the rate at which the rider pedals, and the rate at which the drive wheel turns.
Examples of this include the Amgen Tour of California, Ironman, the Sea Otter Classic, and Crankworks. At the Amgen Tour of California (ATOC) SRAM was the neutral race support sponsor for both the women's and men's races and a title sponsor for the entire women's race. [24] SRAM is also a sponsor of specific stages within the men's ATOC race.
Deore XT is a mountain and touring bike groupset first introduced by Shimano in 1983. [1] It was Shimano's first mountain bike groupset, based on their existing Deore touring groupset, and it consisted of a triple-, double- or single chainring crankset, front and rear derailleurs, handlebar-mounted "finger" shifters, cantilever brakes, and large-flange hubs. [1]