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2. Quick release skewer - Wikipedia

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   Quick release skewer, removed from a hub, in the closed position Hub with its skewer mounted Quick release clamp on a seatpost. A quick release skewer is a mechanism for attaching a wheel to a bicycle. It consists of a rod threaded on one end and with a lever operated cam assembly on the other. The rod is inserted into the hollow axle of the ...

3. List of bicycle parts - Wikipedia

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   Quick release: a skewer with a lever on one end that loosens when the lever is flipped. Used for releasing wheels and seat posts; Rack: a rack that attaches behind the seat, usually with stays to the rear dropouts, that serves as a general carrier; Reflector: reflects light to make bicycle evident when the illuminated by headlights of other ...

4. Bicycle fork - Wikipedia

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   Usually, either the axle is bolted to the fork, or a quick release skewer passes through a hollow axle, clamping the axle to the fork. 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 ...

5. Fork end - Wikipedia

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   Lawyer lips or lawyer tabs (a type of positive retention device), a nineteenth century invention, [4] are tabs fitted to the fork ends on the front fork of bicycles sold in some countries (particularly the U.S.) to prevent a wheel from leaving the fork if the quick release skewer comes undone.

6. Bicycle wheel - Wikipedia

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   The axle can attach using a: Quick release - a lever and skewer that pass through a hollow axle designed to allow for installation and removal of the wheel without any tools (found on most modern road bikes and some mountain bikes). Nut - the axle is threaded and protrudes past the sides of the fork/frame. (often found on track, fixed gear ...

7. Hub gear - Wikipedia

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   Before epicyclic gears were used in bicycle hubs, they were used on tricycles. Patents for epicyclic hubs date from the mid-1880s. [5] [6] The first patent for a compact epicyclic hub gear was granted in 1895 to the American machinist Seward Thomas Johnson of Noblesville, Indiana, U.S.A. [7] This was a 2-speed but was not commercially successful.

8. Wingnut (hardware) - Wikipedia

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   Bicycle wingnuts. Before the development of quick release skewers, bicycle wheels were held in place with wingnuts. [4] [5] Drum hardware

9. Bicycle trailer - Wikipedia

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   Rear axle: Special attachment points, integral to the rear quick release skewer or bolted onto solid axles, hold dropouts cut into the trailer hitch. Chainstay : Two-piece sandwiching clamp screws tight over left rear triangle , with protruding socket-and-pin receiver.