Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Glossary (original) (raw)

Go To Harris Navigational Hub-e: Harris Cyclery, a small, service oriented bike shop in the western suburbs of Boston, available to cyclists throughout the U.S with hard-to-find parts and accessories and good advice. This site contains a number of useful articles on bicycling and bicycles, plus links to other bicycle-related sites on the Internet.

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Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Glossary

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Additions and corrections are most welcome.

If you don't find an entry that you think belongs here, tell me!

Opinions and value judgements are my own, unless otherwise noted.

This does not pretend to be an objective document.

Many of these terms have general meanings as well as special bicycle-related meanings. This glossary deals only with the bicycle-related applications of these terms.

All are welcome to create hyperlinks to this search page, or to individual definitions.

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Thanks to Jobst Brandt, Jeff Del Papa, Mark Irving and Drew Saunders for their helpful suggestions and to John Allen who is currently editing and adding to this glossary.

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