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Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Glossary
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Original article: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/glossary.html on sheldonbrown.com
- Reproduced with the permission of John Allen and Harriet Fell — all rights reserved. The version on sheldonbrown.com is authoritative.
- Mirrored: 2026-10-10 · Last update of the original: see original
German translation: Vollständiges Wörterbuch Englisch - Deutsch on wikipedalia.com
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.
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.
Other Online Bicycle Glossaries:
| Sheldon Brown's French/English dictionary Le vélo-dictionnaire de Sheldon Brown |
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| Sheldon Brown's Spanish/English dictionary Sheldon Brown'd English/Spanish Dictionary |
| English/Italian MTB Dictionary |
