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Sachs ®
Saddle
S.A.E.
Safety Bicycle
Safety Levers
Sag Wagon
Santana ®
Schrader
Schwag
Schwinn Paramount
Sealed bearings
Seamless
Seat
Seat Cluster
Seat Lug
Seat Pin
Seat Pillar
Seat Post
Seat-Post Bolt
Seat Mast
Seat Sandwich ®
Seat Stays
Seat Tube
Self-energizing Brakes
Selle
Semi-tangent
Serrated
Seta
Setback
Sew-up
S.F.
S.G.
Shaft drive
Shifter
Shimano ®
Side-pull Brake
Silent Clutch
Silk
Simplex ®
Alex Singer
Single Groove
Single Pivot
Single Track
Single Tube
Siping
S.I.S. ®
Skewer
Ski Bend
Skinwall Tire
Skip Link
Slick
SLR ® Brakes
Snake Bite
Snowflake Wheel
Sociable
Solid Axle
Solo
Spacing (Frame/hub)
Spacing (Cassette)
Spanner
SPD ® pedals
Spider
Spline
Spin
Spindle
Spinner
Spinning
Spoke
Spoke Patterns
Spoke Protector
Spoon Brake
Sport-touring Bicycle
Springer Fork
Sprint
Sprocket
Sprung/Un-sprung Weight
Squirm
S.R. ®
Stack bolt
S.R.
SRAM
Stack Height
Stainless Steel
Standover Height
Starley
Star Fangled Nut ®
Stay
Stayer
Steel
Steersman
Steerer
Steering Axis
Stem
Stem Shifter
S.T.I. ®
Sting-Ray ®
Stoker
Stoker Lever
Stokid
Strada
Straight Gauge
Straight Spokes
Stress Riser
Sturmey-Archer ®
Stud
STX ®
Suicide Levers
Sun Pinion
Sun Tour ®
Superglide ®
Superman Position
Super Record
Superset ®
Suspension
Sutherland's Handbook
Swaging
S.W.B.
Swiss
Synch Chain

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Taco
Tadpole
Tandem
Tap
Jack Taylor
Technomic ®
Teledyne Titan
Tensiometer
Tension Pulley
Terry ®
3rd hand
Threaded Driver
Threaded Headset
Threading Systems
Threadless Headsets
Thumb Shifter
Tiller Effect
Three-piece Cranks
T.I.G. Welding
Timing Chain
Time Trial
Tire
Tire Iron, Tire Lever
Tire Saver
Titanium
Toe In
Toe Clips
Tomi
Tommasini
Tops
Top Pull
Top Swing ®
Top Tube
Torpado
Torque
Torque Wrench
Torsion
Touring
Touring Bag
Touring Bicycle
Tourney ®
T.P.I.
Track
Track Mitts
Track Nut
Track Stand
Traction
Trail
Trainer
Transverse Cable
Traps
Travel
Tread
Trek
Trials
Triathlon, Triathlete
Trigger Shifter
Trim
Triple
Triple Butted
Triplet
True, truing
Tube (inner)
Tubing (frame)
Tubular
Turkey Wings
Two-piece Crank
Tyre
U-brake
U.C.I.
U.C.P.
Ultegra ®
Ultra Spacing ®
Uniglide ®
Universal
Universal Joint
Upright
Urago
Upshift
U.S.S.
Unicrown
Valve
V-Brake ®
Vélo
Velodrome
Vise-Grip ®
Washer
Wedge bolt
Wedgie
Weinmann
Welding
Westwood Rim
Whatton Bars
Wheel
Wheelie
Wheel Goods
Wheel Retention
Wheelie Bike
Wheel Base
Wheel Sucker
Whitworth
Windsor
Wishbone
Witcomb
Wooden rims
Woods Valve
Wrench
X-Press ® Shifter
XC ®
XT ®
XTR ®
Yield
Yoke
Zap ®
Zeus
Zzipper ®

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Spoke divider

Thanks to Jobst Brandt, Jeff Del Papa, Mark Irving, Zach Kaplan and Drew Saundersfor their helpful suggestions.

Spoke divider

Other Online Bicycle Glossaries:

Sheldon Brown's French/English dictionary
Le vélo-dictionnaire de Sheldon Brown
Sheldon Brown's Spanish/English dictionary
Sheldon Brown'd English/Spanish Dictionary
English/Italian MTB Dictionary

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