See derailleur on Wiktionary
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"text": "[H. A. G.] Keates again rode a fully-equipped machine (lamp excepted) and used a derailleur gear. It was probably this variation which enabled him to progress so well against the wind and yet take full advantage of its assistance on the return trip.",
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"text": "The chain is guided by dérailleurs from one sprocket to another, front and rear, until the gear ratio desired is reached. […] Generally the problems in this area will be with the dérailleurs or the chain. Still, it is possible that a bad chain will have worn the teeth on the freewheel or the front sprocket.",
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"ref": "1984, John Forester, “Derailleur Adjustment”, in Effective Cycling, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, published 1985, →ISBN, part II (Bicycle Maintenance), page 79:",
"text": "The common rear derailleur designs all operate on the same principle. A moveable cage receives the chain returning from the chainwheel and directs it onto one sprocket of the cluster. Moving the cage sideways directs the chain onto a different sprocket.",
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"ref": "2009, Louis G. Perez, “Society in the Twenty-first Century”, in Frank W. Thackeray, John E. Findling, editors, The History of Japan (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations), 2nd edition, Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 202:",
"text": "Very few bicycles are of a different color or employ more gears with derailer sprockets and hand brakes. […] In short, most adult commuter bicycles are almost interchangeable; and therein lies the tale. […] At first glance, one wonders how commuters can identify their own machine from the pack of identical black bicycles, particularly if they are in the center of the pack. The answer is, they don't! They simply grab one that is convenient, ride it home, and then return it to the pack the next day.",
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"ref": "2015, Chris Woodford, “The Beauty of Bikes”, in Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home, London; New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Sigma, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 67:",
"text": "By flicking the gear lever, you can flip the chain onto different pairs of gear wheels so, effectively, you're changing the relative size of the two gear wheels connected together. A cunning mechanical gear-shift called a dérailleur allows you to do this as you’re bicycling along, even while the gear wheels and the chain are spinning at speed. […] In a high gear, for racing down the straight, the back wheel will turn more quickly than the wheel you pedal (faster and with less force). In low great it's the opposite, with the back wheel turning more slowly but with a huge dollop of extra force for digging in and crawling up hills.",
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"ref": "2024, Sam Tracy, “Frames”, in Riding More with Less: A Future for Bike Repair, Oakland, Calif.: PM Press, →ISBN, page 11:",
"text": "A bent [derailleur] hanger will torpedo your shifting, and possibly even throw your rear derailleur into the spokes, so straightening derailleur hangers becomes a very common repair. […] Plug your Allen wrench’s short end into the derailleur’s mounting bolt, then grasp its long end with one hand and the derailleur body with the other, moving both simultaneously.",
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"word": "dérailleur"
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"sense": "mechanism on a bicycle wheel used while cycling to move the bicycle chain from one sprocket to another, to change speeds",
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"sense": "mechanism on a bicycle wheel used while cycling to move the bicycle chain from one sprocket to another, to change speeds",
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"word": "descarrilador"
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"word": "desviador"
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"roman": "pereključátelʹ",
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"word": "переключа́тель"
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"sense": "mechanism on a bicycle wheel used while cycling to move the bicycle chain from one sprocket to another, to change speeds",
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"word": "cambio de marchas"
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"sense": "mechanism on a bicycle wheel used while cycling to move the bicycle chain from one sprocket to another, to change speeds",
"word": "sang đĩa"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.