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Bicycle parts. List of bicycle parts by alphabetic order: Axle: as in the generic definition, a rod that serves to attach a wheel to a bicycle and provides support for bearings on which the wheel rotates. Also sometimes used to describe suspension components, for example a swing arm pivot axle
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English: A diagram of a rear bicycle wheel showing the difference in length and angle of spokes on the side of the bicycle wheel with the gears and the one without. Date 9 December 2008
English: A cross section through a typical bike wheel for wire-tires with (German) descriptions of essential parts to repair the tube. Deutsch: Schnittbild eines typischen Laufrads für Drahtreifen mit (deutschen) Beschriftungen der wesentlichen Teile für die Reparatur des Schlauchs.
A bicycle dropout (drop out, frame end, or fork end), is a slot in a frame or fork where the axle of the wheel is attached. The term fork is sometimes also used to describe the part of a bicycle that holds the rear wheel, [1] which on 19th century ordinary or penny-farthing bicycles was also a bladed fork.
The front wheel from a racing bicycle. Bicycle wheel with wooden rim Nipples Spokes Cross-section of a rim A Shimano Dura-Ace freehub-style hub. A bicycle wheel is a wheel, most commonly a wire wheel, designed for a bicycle. A pair is often called a wheelset, especially in the context of ready built "off the shelf" performance-oriented wheels.
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For a normal wheel size and spoke count, only the latter is suitable for a wheel that has to transmit torque from the hub to the rim, as with rear wheels or hub brakes. This rule is occasionally broken where a very large number of spokes is used, or the wheel is unusually small in diameter, either of which reduces the amount of increased ...