bicycle brake

The cable was particularly intended for use in conjunction with bicycle brakes.

A jingling sounds in his right ear, bicycle brakes trumpet.

She couldn't keep him in bicycle brakes.

Rim brakes are the traditional type of bicycle brakes that rub on the rim to stop the bike.

For information on other types of bicycle brakes see the full article on bicycle brake systems.

This application is common on winch drums and chain saws and is also used for some bicycle brakes.

Gromit tests the bicycle brakes and becomes suspicious on learning that they work, but Wallace becomes smitten with Piella.

In particular, longitudinally reinforced housings should not be used for bicycle brakes, since they are weaker than the spirally wound housings.

Because the "motor" is small, an uncommon feature of bicycle brakes is that the pads retract to eliminate residual drag when the brake is released.

She is the daughter of Papa C. Iwaki saved her when her bicycle brakes stopped working two years ago and she has liked him ever since.

Housings for bicycle brakes need not be quite so compressionless, but need to be stronger, and items currently sold for this purpose use a close-wound spiral support wire.

He was an enthusiastic voluntary fireman, and inventor of one of the first forked bicycle brakes, as well as a device to prevent ladies' skirts from becoming entangled in bicycle wheels.

A brake shoe is the part of a braking system which carries the brake lining in the drum brakes used on automobiles, or the brake block in train brakes and bicycle brakes.

Sir Frank Bowden, the founder and owner of the Raleigh Bicycle Company was reputed to have started replacing the rigid rods used for bicycle brakes with a flexible wound cable around 1902.

Trials brakes must create more stopping torque than standard bicycle brakes and are set up, especially on the rear, with more emphasis on locking the wheel they act on than bringing the bike to a smooth halt from speed.

In it, he lays claim to his own inventions at his father's firm: machine tools, cash registers, bicycle brakes and the Ford, U.S. Steel, DuPont and Eastman Kodak pavilions for the 1939 World's Fair.

Like many students on this perpetually balmy and aromatic campus, where the quiet is punctuated by the sounds of splashing fountains, birds and bicycle brakes, she was more concerned about new requirements that students stop shopping around for courses well into each academic quarter to avoid getting failing marks.

Modern bicycle brakes may be: rim brakes, in which friction pads are compressed against the wheel rims; internal hub brakes, in which the friction pads are contained within the wheel hubs; or disc brakes, with a separate rotor for braking.

MAFAC, or Manufacture Arvernoise de Freins et Accessoires pour Cycles (Arveni Manufacturing Works for Bicycle Brakes and Accessories), was a French manufacturer of bicycle brakes and tool kits.