Accessory for reducing pedal kickback in mtb bicycles

Abstract

A removable accessory for cancelling or reducing pedal kickback in MTB bicycles having a frame, a front and a rear wheel, a suspension of the rear wheel, a crankset with at least one front sprocket and at least one rear sprocket set to accommodate a chain drive between the front sprocket and the rear sprocket. The accessory includes a substantially rectangular supporting plate having, at one of its long sides, two holes or notches for the passage of means of attachment in corresponding receiving seats arranged around the bicycle crankset; a pulley mounted swiveling on a transverse pin attached near a free end of the plate that is cantilevered upwardly in a direction in which the pulley is engageable in the chain when the plate is mounted on the bicycle and widens the closed ring of the chain.

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