List of bicycle parts
Bicycle parts include:
- Axle
- Ball bearing
- Bar ends
- extensions at the end of straight handlebars, usually fitted onto mountain bikes
- Basket
- cargo carrier
- Bottle cage
- used to carry a water bottle
- Bottom bracket
- contains a spindle to which the crankset is attached and the bearings that allow the shaft and cranks to rotate. (The chainrings and pedals are attached to the cranks.) The bottom bracket fits inside the bottom bracket shell, which is part of the bicycle frame.
- Brake
- Bicycle brakes are used to stop the bicycle. Rim brakes and disc brakes are operated by brake levers, which are mounted on the handlebars. Coaster brakes are operated by pedaling backward.
- Braze-on
- Cable carrier
- Cable guide
- Cable
- Cartridge bearing
- Cassette
- on a bicycle with a rear derailleur, the rear set of cogs
- Chain
- Chainring
- gear attached to a crank arm
- Chainstay
- pair of tubes on a bicycle frame that runs from the bottom bracket to the rear dropouts
- Cone
- holds bearings in place, pressed against the cup
- Crankset
- composed of crankarms and chainrings
- Cotter
- pin for attaching cottered crank arms
- Coupler
- to connect tubing together
- Cup
- receives ball bearings which roll along its inner surface; integrated on most conventional hubs or can be pressed into or older bottom bracket shells, see also Cone
- Cyclocomputer
- Derailleur hanger
- Derailleur
- Down tube
- tube on a bicycle frame that runs from the head tube to the bottom bracket.
- Dropout (bicycle part)
- paired slots on a fork or frame at which the axle of the wheel is attached
- Dustcap
- Dynamo
- a bicycle lighting component - see Bicycle lighting#Dynamo Systems
- Eyelet
- attachment point on frame, fork, or dropout for fenders, racks, etc.
- Fairing
- Fender
- Ferrule
- Fork
- Frame
- Freehub
- Freewheel
- Hanger
- part of frame to which the dérailleur is attached (see Derailleur hanger above):
- Handlebar plug
- Handlebar tape
- Usually cork or cloth, sometimes foam rubber.
- Handlebar
- Head badge
- Manufacturer's or brand logo affixed to the head tube
- Head tube
- the tube of a bicycle frame that contains the headset
- Headset or head set
- the bearings that form the interface between the frame and fork steerer tube
- Hood
- The rubber brake lever covering on bikes with drop style handle bars
- Hub
- Hub dynamo
- a generator inside one of the hubs for powering lights or other accessories
- Indicator
- a turn signal - see Bicycle lighting#Turn signals (indicators)
- Inner tube
- Jockey wheel
- one of two small sprockets of the rear derailleur that guide the chain
- Kickstand
- "Lawyer tab"
- also called "lawyer lips," a retention device on the dropouts of the front fork
- Locknut
- Lockring
- Lug
- Luggage carrier
- Nipple
- Pannier
- Pedal
- Quick release
- Rack
- Reflector
- Rim
- Safety levers
- Saddle
- Seat
- Seat Rails
- Seat lug
- Seat tube
- Seat bag
- Seatpost
- Seatstay
- Shifter
- See also Ergo Shifting and Shimano Total Integration, two competing methods of combined shifter and brake lever controls
- Shock absorber
- Skirt guard
- Spindle
- Spoke
- Steering tube
- Stem
- Tire
- Toe clips
- Top tube
- Valve stem cover
- Valve stem or just Valve
- Port for adding or releasing air from the inner tube. Two types are commonly used: Presta valves and Schrader valves. A third type, the Woods or Dunlop valve, can still be found in Europe and Asia.
- Wheel
References
- International Standard ISO 8090: Cycles — Terminology. (same as: British Standard BS 6102-4)