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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.
A fork end, [1] fork-end, [1] or forkend [2] is a slot in a bicycle frame or bicycle fork where the axle of a bicycle wheel is attached. A dropout is a type of fork end [3] that allows the rear wheel to be removed without first derailing the chain. Track bicycle frames have track fork ends, on which the opening faces rearwards. Because they do ...
The development of forks with curves is attributed to George Singer. [8] In motorcycles with telescopic fork tubes, fork offset can be implemented by either an offset in the triple tree, adding a triple tree rake [9] (usually measured in degrees from 0) to the fork tubes as they mount into the triple tree, or a combination of the two. [10]
Improving fork and head tube, fork copy and pasted from File:Bicycle fork geometry-en.svg. Changing font to sans-sarif for ease of reading on a screen, especially at a small font size. Still lots of room for improvement in this image. 23:40, 22 May 2009: 443 × 281 (42 KB) MarkWarren: Added a label to the seat tube. 06:44, 3 October 2008
English: A diagram comparing two types of rear bicycle hubs, freehub, and threaded hub, both with adjustable cup and cone bearing systems. The image is cut away to show the axle and bearing system, and labelled in English.
The rod is inserted into the hollow axle of the wheel, a special nut is threaded on, and the lever is closed to tighten the cam and secure the wheel to the fork. Wheels equipped with quick release mechanisms can be removed from the bicycle frame and replaced without using tools by opening and closing the cam lever, thus more quickly than wheels ...
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Traditional bicycle head tubes and headsets are sized for a 25.4 mm (1 in) diameter steerer tube (also known as the fork column). Many frame and fork manufacturers are now building their parts around a steerer tube with a diameter of 28.6 mm (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in). The larger diameter of the head tube and headset gives added stiffness to the steering ...