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Lifetime Bicycle Components and Upgrades

There’s nothing more frustrating then seeing your buddies going off in the distance while you perform the miracle of road side repair, so reliable bicycle parts rule. Finding out your seat tube can’t handle your weight 10 miles from home is not the most pleasant return ride. Bicycle Parts from shifters to derailleurs and crank arms to bottom brackets must be designed to operate like a finely tuned engine. Bearings need to run smooth and gears need to shift lightening fast to satisfy your and my needs for speed.

Stop in and tell us what you have and how we can help you get the most from your bicycle for a riding experience of a lifetime!

Brands We Proudly Carry and Stand Behind

    • Sram
    • Shimano
    • Campagnolo
    • Rock Shok
    • Avid
    • Truvativ
    • Micro Shift

Common Components Lists

    • Bar ends – extensions at the end of straight handlebars to allow for multiple hand positions.
    • Bar plugs aka end caps – Handlebar plug – plugs for the ends of handlebars.
    • Basket – cargo carrier.
    • Bell – an audible device for warning pedestrians and other cyclists.
    • Belt-drive – alternate to chain-drive
    • Bottle cage – a holder for a water bottle
    • Bottom bracket – The bearing system that the pedals (and cranks) rotate around. Contains a spindle to which the crankset is attached and the bearings themselves. There is a bearing surface on the spindle, and ones on the cups that thread into the frame. The bottom bracket may be overhaulable (an adjustable bottom bracket) or not overhaulable (a cartridge bottom bracket). The bottom bracket fits inside the bottom bracket shell, which is part of the bicycle frame.
    • Brake – Brakes are used to stop the bicycle. Rim brakes and disc brakes are operated by brake levers, which are mounted on the handlebars. Coaster brakes are operated by pedaling backward.
    • Braze-on – a fitting protruding from a frame to provide attachment, typically for cable housings or tire pumps and similar accessories.
    • Cable guide – A fitting below the bottom bracket which guides a piece of bare inner bowden cable around a corner.
    • Cable – a metal cable enclosed in part by a metal and plastic housing that is used to connect a control, such as a brake or shifting lever, to the device it activates.
    • Cartridge bearing – A type of bearing that is not user-serviceable, but must be replaced as a unit.
    • Cassette – a group of stacked sprockets on the rear wheel of a bicycle with a rear derailleur.
    • Chain – A system of interlinking pins, plates and rollers that transmits power from the front sprocket(s) to the rear sprocket(s).
    • Chainguard – Cover for the entire chain either totally encasing (sometimes with oil in) or ‘incomplete’. Either way, designed to keep clothing from fouling the chain.
    • Chainring – (one of the) front gear(s), attached to a crank.
    • Crankset – composed of cranks and chainrings
    • Cyclocomputer – an electronic accessory that measures and displays instantaneous and cumulative speed and distance. Often provides other measurements such as heart rate.
    • Derailleur – an assembly of levers, usually cable actuated, that moves the chain between sprockets on a cassette or chainring assembly.
    • Fender – curved pieces of metal or plastic above the tires which catch and redirect road spray thrown up by the tires, allowing the rider to remain relatively clean. Also known as mudguards.
    • Ferrule – a metal or plastic sleeve used to terminate the end of a cable housing
    • Fork – a mechanical assembly that integrates a bicycle’s frame to its front wheel and handlebars, allowing steering by virtue of its steerer tube.
    • Fork end – paired slots on a fork or frame at which the axle of the wheel is attached. See also: Dropout.
    • Frame – the mechanical core of a bicycle, the frame provides points of attachment for the various components that make up the machine. The term is variously construed, and can refer to the base section, always including the bottom bracket, or to base frame, fork, and suspension components such as a shock absorber.
    • Freehub – a ratcheting assembly onto which a cog or cassette is mounted that allows the bicycle to coast without the pedals turning.
    • Freewheel – a ratcheting assembly that incorporates one or more cogs and allows the bicycle to coast without the pedals turning..
    • Handlebar – a lever attached, usually using an intermediary stem, to the steerer tube of the fork. Allows steering and provides a point of attachment for controls and accessories.
    • Handlebar tape – a tape wound around dropped handlebars so as to provide padding and grip, usually cork or cloth, sometimes foam rubber.
    • Headset or head set – the bearings that form the interface between the frame and fork steerer tube
    • Hood – The rubber brake lever covering on bikes with drop style handle bars
    • Hub – the core of a wheel – contains bearings and, in a traditional wheel, has drilled flanges for attachment of spokes.
    • Inner tube – a bladder that contains air to inflate a tire. Has a Schrader, ‘Woods’/'Dunlop’ or Presta valve for inflation and deflation.
    • Kickstand – a folding attachment used to park a bicycle upright. Usually mounts to frame near bottom bracket, sometimes near rear dropouts.
    • Locknut – a nut designed not to loosen due to vibration.
    • Lockring – a ring, usually metal, of varying design, that serves to retain a component in place.
    • Luggage carrier – any accessory equipment designed to carry tools, gear or cargo.
    • Master link – a bicycle chain accessory that allows convenient removal and reconnection of an installed bicycle chain without the need for a chain tool.
    • Nipple – a specialized nut that most commonly attaches a spoke to a wheel rim. In some systems, it provides attachment to the hub.
    • Pannier – cloth zippered storage bags that mount to sides of luggage racks. Pronounced pan-ear, or pan-yer (an old English word, not French).
    • Pedal – mechanical interface between foot and crank arm. There are two general types – one secures the foot with a mechanical clamp or cage and the other has no connection to lock the foot to the pedal.
    • Quick release – a skewer with a lever on one end that loosens when the lever is flipped. Used for releasing wheels and seat posts.
    • Rack – a rack that attaches behind the seat, usually with stays to the rear dropouts, that serves as a general carrier.
    • Reflector – reflects light to make bicycle evident when illuminated by headlights of other vehicles. Usually required by law but held in disdain by many cyclists.
    • Rim – That part of a wheel to which the tire is attached and often forms part of the braking mechanism.
    • Rotor – a device that allows the handlebars and fork to revolve indefinitely without tangling the rear brake cable.
    • Saddle – also seat. What you sit on.
    • Seat – also saddle. What you sit on.
    • Seat Rails – a metal framework over which saddle covering is stretched. The seat post attaches to the seat rails by means of a clamp.
    • Seat tube – the roughly vertical tube in a bicycle frame running from the seat to the bottom bracket.
    • Seat bag – a small storage accessory hung from the back of a seat.
    • Seatpost – a post that the seat is mounted to. It slides into the frame’s seat tube and is used to adjust ride height depending how far into the seat tube it is inserted.
    • Shifter – see also Shimano Total Integration, Campagnolo ErgoPower, and SRAM Double Tap, three competing methods of combined shifter and brake lever controls
    • Spindle – an axle around which a pedal rotates – threaded at one end to screw into crank arms.
    • Spoke – connects wheel rim to hub. Usually wire with one end swaged to form a head and one threaded end. A typical wheel has 36 spokes.
    • Steering tube – a tube on top of a fork that is inserted through frame and serves as an axle by means of which bicycle can be steered.
    • Stem – a bracket used to attach handlebars to steerer tube of fork. Usually secured by pinch bolts.
    • Tire – as in common usage. Usually pneumatic. A tubular tire is glued to the wheel rim; most tires use tubes, but tubeless tires and rims are increasingly common. Know What Size Tire You Need – Dimension, Width, Tread Type, Durability of the Tire, Weight of the Tire.
    • Wheel – as in common usage. Traditionally and most commonly spoked.