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2. Bicycle brake - Wikipedia

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   The cantilever brake is a class of brake in which each arm is attached to a separate pivot point on one side of the seat stay or fork. Thus all cantilever brakes are dual-pivot. Both first- and second-class lever designs exist; second-class is by far the more common. In the second-class lever design, the arm pivots below the rim.

3. Mafac - Wikipedia

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   Early MAFAC brakes were built in the cantilever configuration with a separate brake arm on each side, actuated by a straddle cable. Later MAFAC brakes were of a center-pull design in which a straddle cable links the two overlapping arms of the brake. Like the cantilever design, it is actuated by pulling from the center of this cable.

4. List of bicycle parts - Wikipedia

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   Brake: devices used to stop or slow down a bicycle. Rim brakes and disc brakes are operated by brake levers, which are mounted on the handlebars. Band brake is an alternative to rim brakes but can only be installed at the rear wheel. Coaster brakes are operated by pedaling backward; Brake lever: a lever for actuating a bicycle brake

5. Cantilever brake - Wikipedia

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   This page was last edited on 23 June 2023, at 06:15 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

6. Cyclo-cross bicycle - Wikipedia

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   Cyclocross cantilever brake bosses are more often equipped with traditional center-pull cantilever brakes than the more contemporary and powerful linear-pull brakes ("V-brakes") due to two reasons: native compatibility (insufficient brake cable pull) with the majority of drop-bar brake levers; and the cantilever brake's greater brake pad-to-rim ...

7. Specialized Stumpjumper - Wikipedia

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   The original bike had a modified BMX stem and handlebars based on Magura motorcycle handlebars. [4] The bike was equipped with 15-speed [5] Suntour ARX GT gears, originally designed for use on road bikes, and the Stumpjumper also featured Mafac cantilever brakes and a TA Cyclotourist chainset, both designed for touring bikes. [4] It had no ...

8. Hope Technology - Wikipedia

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   They began to develop an alternative the cantilever brakes which was common on mountain bikes at the time. They designed a calliper brake that they fitted to the front wheel of the bike. The calipers were cable operated and used a rear, screw-on hub in the front wheel of the bike. The disc rotor screwed onto the hub.

9. Centurion (bicycle company) - Wikipedia

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   According to Frank J. Berto, [2] [3] Raleigh Industries of America had been looking at a Japanese source for their Grand Prix model. Raleigh America ordered 2,000 bicycles from Tano and Company of Osaka but their parent company in England, TI-Raleigh, disapproved — concerned that the Tano-built bikes were too well made and would have outsold their own British bikes.