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<p>A comparative analysis of well-known literary sources has been conducted to identify and summarize the main shortcomings of existing freewheel ball clutches used in bicycles. The need to improve the operational characteristics of existing clutches in order to completely eliminate ball slippage during transitional modes of operation has been convincingly demonstrated. This is due to the fact that they transmit torque through the frictional forces between the jammed balls and the working surfaces of the semi-clutches.</p>
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A comparative analysis of well-known literary sources has been conducted to identify and summarize the main shortcomings of existing freewheel ball clutches used in bicycles. The need to improve the operational characteristics of existing clutches in order to completely eliminate ball slippage during transitional modes of operation has been convincingly demonstrated. This is due to the fact that they transmit torque through the frictional forces between the jammed balls and the working surfaces of the semi-clutches.

Improvement of Bicycle Ball-Type Overrunning Clutch Operation

Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Transport, Lviv Polytechnic National University

Department of Technical Mechanics and Engineering Graphics

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

Strojnícky časopis - Journal of Mechanical Engineering

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A comparative analysis of well-known literary sources has been conducted to identify and summarize the main shortcomings of existing freewheel ball clutches...

Improvement of Bicycle Ball-Type Overrunning Clutch Operation

Published Online: Jun 01, 2024

Page range: 75 - 82

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scjme-2024-0008

Keywords
bicycles, balls, bicycle clutches, surface contact

© 2024 Volodymyr Malashchenko et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Improvement of Bicycle Ball-Type Overrunning Clutch Operation

Published Online: Jun 01, 2024

Page range: 75 - 82

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scjme-2024-0008

Keywordsbicycles, balls, bicycle clutches, surface contact

© 2024 Volodymyr Malashchenko et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
bicycles, balls, bicycle clutches, surface contact