* Bar ends – extensions at the end of straight handlebars to allow for multiple hand positions.

* Bar plugs aka end caps – Handlebar plug – plugs for the ends of handlebars.

* Bearing – a device that facilitates rotation by reducing friction. The most common types are ball, roller and sleeve.

* Belt-drive – alternate to chain-drive

* Basket – cargo carrier

* Bottle cage – a holder for a water bottle

* Bottom bracket – The bearing system that the pedals (and cranks) rotate around. Contains a spindle to which the crankset is attached and the bearings themselves. There is a bearing surface on the spindle, and ones on the cups that thread into the frame. The bottom bracket may be overhaulable (an adjustable bottom bracket) or not overhaulable (a cartridge bottom bracket). The bottom bracket fits inside the bottom bracket shell, which is part of the bicycle frame.

* Brake – 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 – a fitting protruding from a frame to provide attachment, typically for cable housings or tire pumps and similar accessories.

* Cable guide – A fitting below the bottom bracket which guides a piece of bare inner bowden cable around a corner.

* Cable – a metal cable enclosed in part by a metal and plastic housing that is used to connect a control, such as a brake or shifting lever, to the device it activates.

* Cartridge bearing – A type of bearing that is not user-serviceable, but must be replaced as a unit.

* Cassette – a group of stacked sprockets on the rear wheel of a bicycle with a rear derailleur.

* Chain – A system of interlinking pins, plates and rollers that transmits power from the front cranks to the rear wheel.

* Chainring – (one of the) front gear(s), attached to a crank.

* Chainstay – pair of tubes on a bicycle frame that runs from the bottom bracket to the rear dropouts

* Cogset – the set of rear sprockets that attaches to the hub on the rear wheel.

* Cone – holds bearings in place, pressed against the cup

* Crankset – composed of cranks and chainrings

* Cotter – pin for attaching cottered cranks

* 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 older bottom bracket shells. See also: Cone

* Cyclocomputer – an electronic accessory that measures and displays instantaneous and cumulative speed and distance. Often provides other measurements such as heart rate.

* Derailleur hanger – a piece on the rear dropout that the derailleur attaches to.

* Derailleur – an assembly of levers, usually cable actuated, that moves the chain between sprockets on a cassette or chainring assembly.

* 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 – any cap serving to keep dirt and contamination out of an assembly. Common over crank bolts, often plastic.

* Dynamo – bicycle lighting component, aka generator.

* Eyelet

1. attachment point on frame, fork, or dropout for fenders, racks, etc.
2. a hole through which a spoke nipple passes through the rim so it may attach to a spoke

* Electronic Gear-Shifting System‎ – not simply a type of shifter or a type of derailleur, a complete system with switches instead of levers, wires instead of Bowden cables, and motor-driven deraillers that must all work together.

* Fairing – a full or partial covering for a bicycle to reduce aerodynamic drag or to protect the rider from the elements.

* Fender – curved pieces of metal or plastic above the tires which catch and redirect road spray thrown up by the tires, allowing the rider to remain relatively clean. Also known as mudguards.

* Ferrule – a metal or plastic sleeve used to terminate the end of a cable housing

* Fork – a mechanical assembly that integrates a bicycle’s frame to its front wheel and handlebars, allowing steering by virtue of its steerer tube.

* Frame – the mechanical core of a bicycle, the frame provides points of attachment for the various components that make up the machine. The term is variously construed, and can refer to the base section, always including the bottom bracket, or to base frame, fork, and suspension components such as a shock absorber.

* Freehub – a ratcheting assembly onto which a cog or cassette is mounted that allows the bicycle to coast without the pedals turning.

* Freewheel – a ratcheting assembly that that incorporates cogs and that allows the bicycle to coast without the pedals turning.

* Hanger – part of frame or an attachment to the frame to which the derailleur is attached (see Derailleur hanger)

* Handlebar tape – a tape wound around dropped handlebars so as to provide padding and grip, usually cork or cloth, sometimes foam rubber.

* Handlebar – a lever attached, usually using an intermediary stem, to the steerer tube of the fork. Allows steering and provides a point of attachment for controls and accessories.

* 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 – the core of a wheel – contains bearings and, in a traditional wheel, has drilled flanges for attachment of spokes.

* 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 – a bladder that contains air to inflate a tire. Has a Schrader or Presta valve for inflation and deflation.

* Jockey wheel – one of two small sprockets of the rear derailleur that guide the chain

* Kickstand – a folding attachment used to park a bicycle upright. Usually mounts to frame near bottom bracket, sometimes near rear dropouts.

* “Lawyer tab” – also called “lawyer lips”, a retention device on the dropouts of the front fork to prevent inadvertent loss of the front wheel in the case it is not properly secured.

* Locknut – a nut designed not to loosen due to vibration.

* Lockring – a ring, usually metal, of varying design, that serves to retain a component in place.

* Lug – a metal connector used to align frame components where they join each other.

* Luggage carrier – any accessory equipment designed to carry tools, gear or cargo.

* Nipple – a specialized nut that most commonly attaches a spoke to a wheel rim. In some systems, it provides attachment to the hub.

* Pannier – cloth zippered storage bags that mount to sides of luggage racks. Pronounced pan-ear, or pan-yer (an old English word, not French).

* Pedal – mechanical interface between foot and crank arm. There are two general types – one secures the foot with a mechanical clamp or cage and the other has no connection to lock the foot to the pedal.

* 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 illuminated by headlights of other vehicles. Usually required by law but held in disdain by many cyclists.

* Rim

* Rotor – a device that allows the handlebars and fork to revolve indefinitely without tangling the rear brake cable

* Safety levers, extension levers, and interrupt brake levers

* Saddle – also seat. What you sit on.

* Seat – also saddle. What you sit on.

* Seat Rails – a metal framework over which saddle covering is stretched. The seat post attaches to the seat rails by means of a clamp.

* Seat lug – a frame lug on the top of the seat tube serving as a point of attachment for a clamp to secure the seat post.

* Seat tube – the roughly vertical tube in a bicycle frame running from the seat to the bottom bracket.

* Seat bag – a small storage accessory hung from the back of a seat.

* Seatpost – a post that the seat is mounted to. It slides into the frame’s seat tube and is used to adjust ride height depending how far into the seat tube it is inserted.

* Seatstay – frame components, small diameter tubes running from top of seat tube to rear dropouts.

* Shaft-drive – alternate to chain-drive

* Shifter – see also Ergo Shifting and Shimano Total Integration, two competing methods of combined shifter and brake lever controls

* Shock absorber – for bicycles with suspensions, a device that limits the rate at which suspension rebounds after absorbing an impact.

* Skirt guard or coatguard – a device fitted over the rear wheel of a bicycle to prevent a long skirt, coat or other trailing clothes or luggage from catching in the wheel, or in the gap between the rim and the brakes.

* Spindle – an axle around which a pedal rotates – threaded at one end to screw into crank arms.

* Spoke – connects wheel rim to hub. Usually wire with one end swaged to form a head and one threaded end. A typical wheel has 36 spokes.

* Steering tube – a tube on top of a fork that is inserted through frame and serves as an axle by means of which bicycle can be steered.

* Stem – a bracket used to attach handlebars to steerer tube of fork. Usually secured by pinch bolts.

* Tire – as in common usage. Usually pneumatic. A tubular tire is glued to the wheel rim; most tires use tubes, but tubeless tires and rims are increasingly common.

* Toe clips – a metal or plastic cage attached to a pedal. Usually has an adjustment strap. Secures foot to pedal for increased control and more effective transfer of power from foot to drive chain.

* Top tube – frame member leading from steerer tube to seat tube.

* Valve stem or simply valve – port for adding or releasing air from the inner tube. Two types are commonly used: Presta and Schrader. A third type, the Woods or Dunlop valve, can still be found in Europe and Asia.

* Wheel – as in common usage. Traditionally and most commonly spoked.

Last year 120 people of 200 completed their pledge to reduce drive-alone trips by more than 60 percent and earned their bikes. Together, all new riders biked over 111,000 miles in over 9,000 bike trips. Participants in this year’s program will get a chance to earn their bike by reducing drive-alone commutes by 50 percent, and receive other rewards too!

Past participants have stated that the Green Bikes Project brought cycling into their normal routine and changed their lives. Our helmets go off to those participants who demonstrated that commuting by bike is possible (even fun!) and we look forward to changing the lives of a new group of riders this year.

Interested?

The Green Bike Project 2.0 is currently full! Thanks to all organizations who submitted applications for the 2010 program!

The road to the Super Show success is never easy and if you plan on locking handlebars with the latest batch of ’04 champions, you’re gonna be in for a big and nasty surprise. This year’s main event Super Show took place just north of downtown Las Vegas at Cashman Field on October 10. The stakes were high and the battle was on. The only thing missing was a three-rope wrestling ring in the middle.

Defending their three-wheeled ’03 championship was Gene and his son Cody Bare from Cashion, Arizona, and they victoriously prevailed again this year as the 2004 Lowrider Tricycle of the Year winners. A big hand goes out to these two big-time builders, designers and competitors. Don’t even think that we’re overlooking the issue of thanking everyone who participated not in only in the nationwide hunt for a championship lowrider bike, but throughout the Tour. It’s been quite a year, especially for competitors in the hurricane state of Florida. We’re sure that if Michael Linville (“Twisted Toy,” LRB Fall ’04) didn’t have to brave the set of hurricanes in September, he and his dad may have made it to the show with a sure threat to the throne. As proud as we are about the Tour’s success, many thanks and yahoos go out to everyone who rides on the Tour and on the street.

People do care about Second and Third Place, we certainly do. Staying in the top 10 bicycle class and coming in Second Place behind Isidro Juarez was last year’s 2003 Lowrider Bicycle of the Year champs, Chris and Pete Moreno. Isidro and Chris basically traded places in ’04. The Morenos’ highly tricked-out and modified “Wolverine III” from the exclusive Legions Bike Club vigorously defended their title and vowed to be back next year to reclaim what they feel is rightfully theirs. Now, now, fellas, let’s not get all huffy and puffy, it’s supposed to be a friendly event.

There must be legions of Legions club members and the Third Place Bike of the Year winner is the “Freddy Krueger” two-wheeler owned by Pedro Fraire from Victoria, Texas. Taking a break this year was the “Man of Steel” bike from Arizonian Sam Paz. The just-for-show evilness of Pedro’s pedal scraper was impressive and again puts the darkside on the winning edge. Will Pedro hang the bike up in his garage in retirement? That’s the question that we asked him and he says that he might retire and may enter the Trike class, but right now after the show, things are way up in the air.

Going from award-winning bikes to victorious trikes, Rollerz Only member Jesse Prado (Arlington, Texas) sealed the deal for the second year in a row as the Second Place runner-up in the Trike class with his “Lil’ Outer Limits.” Last year, Javier Rojas’ “Professor X” (Phoenix, Arizona) rolled into the Third Place spot, but this time he was bumped by Legions bike clubber Carlos Ruiz from Houston, Texas. This is Carlos’ first time in the Sweepstakes trophy lineup, but the ladder to the top only gets harder so let’s wish him luck.

While double checking the winner’s list we decided to look at the Bike and Trike special awards and they all went to top honchos. Best Paint, Graphics, Body Modifications, Plating and Engraving went to Isidro Juarez. Best Display was won by Chris and Pete Moreno, while Best Upholstery and Use of Accessories was awarded to Gene and Cody Bare. Pedro Fraire won Best Murals while Legions Bike Club army won the Most Members plaque.

LRB remembers way back in the day (the ’90s) when California bikes won all of the Sweepstakes trophies, but it seems that that trend has shifted east to Arizona and mostly Texas. So grab your cowboy hat and boots, because if you want to compete at the 2005 Super Show, you’re going to have to wrangle the trophies away from these tough hombres, that’s for sure!

Original content : Las Vegas Super Show

1. It is too far to make
If you live too far from work, consider driving part of the way and riding the other. This is particularly useful if the work is congested traffic area. Reducing the use of motor vehicles to help the environment and become a bicycle commuter who luo will raise the other side of the rotation, when driving. Or you can ride the bus part way. Bike racks have been installed in several full-sized city buses. When you are together bike, riding to save fuel and money. $ 10 Monthly bus accepts plus bike can take you anywhere you want to go.

2. It takes too long
You’d be surprised! As traffic in urban areas, cycling as a whole, less time than driving TRIPS three miles or less and approximately the same time, three to five miles off. From long trips, consider that should save time, only when exercising daily commute. Also, remember to savings of time, money (and environmental) when to remove the gas pump visits.

3. I should be much earlier if rode my bicycle
If the commute is less than 10 miles round trip, the difference between the commute time is irrelevant. But even if the commute is longer, 30 minutes extra sleep will not be nearly as strengthening as early morning of the ride. Arrival alert you, at work and refreshed. Similarly, the evening ride home should leave you more relaxed because they do not face the deterioration of the meeting in Rush Hour Traffic. I need not be any influx of night-stop production. You already have!

4. I am in form
If you leave yourself much time to go and easy pace, you’ll find cycling is not more difficult than walking. As the ride more, you can easily penetrate to oman in better form, condition of the building, which is a normal part of your schedule. If you have any health problems, please contact your family doctor suggestions to get started.

5. I can not afford particular bicycle in motion
You do not need it. Your help old bicycle collecting dust in the garage is sufficient if it is correct and supported, and it is less attractive to thieves. If you have recreation, bicycle, you can outfit it is a light rack and bag, or use Fanny pack to take the necessary elements to commute. When fixed costs to operate the vehicle by about $ .30/mile, money that will save you from the wheel moving average of 10 miles round trip to buy a $ 400 bicycle in six months. (Not to mention the health benefits or savings for the environment.

6. There’s no safe place for my bike
It is perhaps storage room and toilet, where the bike can be secured behind locked doors. Maybe you might even take it with his office – what status symbol! Or, to check and see if it is available for parking near the buildings or garages. Otherwise, it is a fixed location, back row, change, lock, preferably where you can see it.

7. I have to dress nice for work
Some of the bikes, just to make the Business clothes – they seem to command great respect, motorists. Most ride in random or cycling clothes and may change when they arrive. You can change clothes, repack, or panniers, bike, or even to transport them back and forth for days, if not ride.

8. I can not shower at work
Depending on the weather conditions may not need a shower, if the ride is solar pace. If not, contact your washcloth, soap, and towels and cleaning Dezodorant rest is sink or search of a public body or health club to walk away from the place where you can shower. Then, to encourage employers to install showers, where he works.

9. What if it’s rainy or cold
Let’s start with the most fair weather bicycle commuter – when the prognosis is poor, not by bicycle. Some people May conquer the elements and commute every day, but this does not mean you are. If you only ride for the time when the report is positive, he will continue to make dramatic improvements. The more you can enjoy the wheel in motion, the more you look forward to your ride on a daily basis. Can not finally decide to invest in rainwear and cold weather gear will be able to commute throughout the year!

10. It is not safe to make the move
You can share the road to a successful car riding lawfully and assertively. Fear of riding in traffic is often much higher than in the actual risk. Most bicycle accidents involve children and cyclists who fail to comply with the law. To minimize the risk of riding correctly – visible, predictable, and then all traffic laws. In a stop and go traffic, which entered wheels may remain in trafficking more smoothly, so that is acceptable to maintain a place in oman road network. Hugging calls for limiting the threat because cars are trying to compress the past. You can prevent damage Always use a helmet. You can also reduce the risk of riding transport by using less congested secondary roads. You can travel a few extra miles but can enjoy the ride, and beneficial to trade off.

11. I have to ride in the dark
Wear a light colored reflective clothing, the use of sound and lighting to choose a route that avoids major thoroughfares. There are a variety of bike-mounted lighting, which can help you see and be seen.

12. I want it to work by car
Some workplaces do not need a car, a number of transport tasks could also be carried out and bike. Learn about the employer and see if the company does not necessarily have the advantage of more environmentally sound image if the company bicycle. Believe that many of the traditional tasks adapt well to cycling, whether it is police work, reporting, mail, etc. If you absolutely can not be used as a bike to work, then the use of bicycles for personal matters in the workplace and at home.