Bicycle frame with angled strut
AssigneeSpecialized Bicycle Components, Inc.
InventorsDouglas Graham Russell, Eric Robert Fischer, Chad Nathaniel Price, Philip Alan Primeaux
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Abstract
A bicycle includes a front wheel and a rear wheel and a frameset supported on the front wheel and the rear wheel. The frameset includes a main frame and a front fork rotationally coupled to the main frame. The main frame includes a top tube, a head tube rotationally supporting the front fork, a down tube coupling the head tube to a bottom bracket, a seat tube extending downward from the top tube and including a lower end spaced from the bottom bracket, a seatstay extending rearward from the lower end of the seat tube, and a strut member extending forward from the lower end of the seat tube and connecting the seat tube to the down tube.
Claims20
A bicycle comprising:
- a front wheel and a rear wheel;
- a frameset supported on the front wheel and the rear wheel, the frameset comprising a main frame and a front fork rotationally coupled to the main frame, the main frame comprising:
- a top tube;
- a head tube rotationally supporting the front fork;
- a down tube coupling the head tube to a bottom bracket;
- a seat tube including a lower end spaced from the bottom bracket, wherein the seat tube includes an opening at an upper end of the seat tube configured to receive a seat post, wherein a seat tube axis extends centrally down through the opening and to the lower end of the seat tube;
- a seatstay extending rearward from the lower end of the seat tube;
- a chainstay;
- a strut member extending forward from the lower end of the seat tube and toward a portion of the down tube that is closer to the bottom bracket than to the head tube;
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- a rear dropout attaching the rear wheel to the frameset;
- wherein the top tube extends between the seat tube to the head tube, wherein the top tube is spaced apart from the down tube, wherein a distance between a rearward end of the top tube and a rearward end of the down tube is greater than a distance between the top tube and the down tube at the head tube, and wherein the seat tube axis extends to a point of intersection between the seat tube, the seatstay, and the strut member;
- wherein the chainstay includes a rear end near the rear dropout, and the seatstay includes a rear end positioned above the rear end of the chainstay;
- wherein an angle between the chainstay and the seatstay is between 10 degrees and 50 degrees, wherein an angle between the seatstay and the strut member is between 130 degrees and 170 degrees.
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