Bicycle Wheel

A bicycle wheel is a wheel, most commonly a wire wheel, designed for bicycle. A pair is often called a wheelset, especially in the context of ready built "off the shelf" performance-oriented wheels.

Bicycle wheels are typically designed to fit into the frame and fork via dropouts, and hold bicycle tires.

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Famous quotes containing the words bicycle and/or wheel:

    “Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “So I was glad of the fog’s
    Taking me to you
    Undetermined summer thing eaten
    Of grief and passage where you stay.
    The wheel is ready to turn again.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)