Abstract: An integrated control device is provided, having a support body configured for attachment to curved bicycle handlebars. The support body has a brake lever for controlling the brake, and a pair of control levers. The pair of control levers are configured for manual operation. Each control lever has a respective control region and the control regions of the pair of control levers are arranged behind the brake lever and above each other.

Abstract: A bicycle electronic controller has a body with a push-operated switch, a manual actuation member for issuing a command, and a motion transmission device interposed between the manual actuation member and the switch. The motion transmission device includes a guide element which is provided with a filiform through cavity and has a first end fixed in proximity to the manual actuation member and a second end fixed in proximity to the switch. A longitudinally, substantially incompressible filiform body is slidingly guided within the guide element and has a first end pushed by actuation of the manual actuation member and a second end that pushes on the switch. The switch is housed within the electronic controller body where a tight insulation can be achieved in addition to arranging the actuation member where it is more ergonomic.

Abstract: An electrically powered bicycle equipment has an attachment/detachment seat for an electric power supply unit, and a latch assembly for holding the electric power supply unit in the seated state includes a slider having a head and a back. Either the electric power supply unit or the equipment has a sliding seat for the slider, the other one has a retaining seat for the head. The sliding seat accommodates the back of the slider, which has a peripheral groove and a ring gasket housed in the peripheral groove. The groove has two aligned sections and a deeper intermediate section between them. When the slider is in the fully advanced position, a gasket portion bridges the intermediate section between the two aligned sections, and when the slider moves back, the gasket portion can curve towards the bottom of the intermediate section of the peripheral groove.

Abstract: A bicycle electronic control device having a support body configured for attachment to the bicycle handlebars. The control device includes a switch and a manual actuator for switching the switch and issuing a command. A de-coupling mechanism is interposed between the manual actuator and the switch for initially de-coupling the manual actuator from the switch.

Abstract: A spoke attachment assembly configured to couple a rim to the spokes of a spoked bicycle wheel. The spoke attachment assembly comprises a nipple having an enlarged head and a stem provided with a coupling portion for coupling with a spoke, at least one shaped washer associated with the nipple and configured to abut on one side with the enlarged head of the nipple and, on the opposite side, with the rim and holding means configured to hold said at least one shaped washer associated with the nipple. The invention also relates to a spoked bicycle wheel and to a process for manufacturing such a wheel.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a spoked bicycle wheel, comprising the steps of providing a rim element having a spoke attachment chamber; providing a spoke attachment assembly for coupling to a respective spoke, inserting the spoke attachment assembly through an opening of the spoke attachment chamber along an insertion direction that is inclined with respect to the rim element and moving the spoke attachment assembly along the insertion direction until a stem of the spoke attachment assembly is at the surface of the spoke attachment chamber; moving the spoke attachment assembly along the surface of the spoke attachment chamber towards a spoke attachment seats; inserting the stem in the spoke attachment seat; and, constraining the spoke attachment assembly in the spoke attachment seat. The steps are repeated to couple a respective spoke attachment assembly to each of the plurality of spoke attachment seats. The invention also relates to a spoked bicycle wheel produced by the above process.

Abstract: An abutment interface located between a spoke attachment nipple and a bridge of a rim to properly align the tensioned spoke with the rim. The abutment interface includes a first washer with a radially inner face that abuts the bridge and a radially outer face that abuts with a radially inner face of a second washer that has a radially outer face that abuts an enlarged head on the nipple. The faces of two washers are complimentarily shaped and adjust with respect to each other and the nipple head. An initial adjustment takes place when the fixing the spoke to the rim and the washers prevent any further adjustment when fixing the spoke to the rim.

Abstract: A bicycle gearshift including a first body associated with a bicycle frame, a second body connected to, and moveable relative to, the first body, a rocker arm rotatably connected to the second body at a rotation axis, and a shaft extending coaxially to this axis and fixedly associated with the rocker arm. A unidirectional rotation device is arranged between the shaft and second body to allow rotation of the shaft relative to the second body only in a first rotation direction. An elastic element is associated with the second body and the rocker arm to push the rocker arm in rotation about the axis in the first rotation direction. A damping device is arranged between the shaft and unidirectional rotation device to generate a friction force when the rocker arm is rotated in a second, opposite rotation direction, and has a friction surface in contact with the unidirectional rotation device.

Abstract: A bicycle electric/electronic derailleur has a plurality of mutually movable components: a support body configured to be attached to a bicycle frame, a chain guide, and a pair of connecting arms, for connection between the support body and the chain guide at respective geometric articulation axes. A geared motor controls the motion of the plurality of mutually movable components. At least one first component has a case with a chamber containing the geared motor and/or one or more electric/electronic devices. The chamber crosses at least one articulation axis. The case comprises a blind hole that is coaxial with the one axis and open outwards of the case. A second component has a pivot pivotable in the blind hole.

Abstract: A bicycle rim is made with a plurality of layered, each of which is formed of structural fibres incorporated in a polymeric material. The rim has a radially outer peripheral channel with an upper bridge extending between the wings for holding a tyre. The peripheral channel comprises an inner layered structure, extending between wings and at least one wrapping layered structure, wound on the inner layered structure at least at the end of the wings, the inner layered structure and the wrapping layered structure being included in the plurality of layered structures.

Abstract: The invention relates to a toothed wheel assembly for a cassette having a first toothed wheel and a second toothed wheel that are concentric. The second tooth wheel has a greater number of teeth than the first toothed wheel; a radially inner cylindrical portion to engage a sprocket support body; a plurality of spokes comprising respective first constraining portions to the first toothed wheel and second constraining portions to the radially inner cylindrical portion; and a plurality of connection bodies that connect the first. The second toothed wheel has an axially-extending portion with at least one pair of spokes having connection bodies that include axially-extending portions in the circumferential direction and at least partially contained in the minimum circumferential extension a respective spoke.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a motorized hub assembly for a bicycle wheel. The assembly has a hub shaft extending along a longitudinal axis with a cavity to receive a quick release axle. A bearing having a radially inner ring is arranged radially outside the hub shaft. A hub body is rotatably mounted on the hub shaft about the longitudinal axis and an electric motor is arranged inside the hub body. A routing opening for passage of electrical conductors for the electric motor pass through a routing opening arranged radially between the inner ring of the bearing and the hub shaft.

Abstract: A bicycle equipment is provided, including an electric power supply unit electrically connected to a first electric connector; a first component; a second component with an electrically powered device and a second connector. A through hole is provided in the first or second component. An electric connector assembly includes a third connector matching the first connector and permanently connected to the first component at a seat for the electric power supply unit; a fourth connector matching the second connector; and an electric cable extending between the third connector and the fourth connector. The through hole, the third connector and the fourth connector are sized such that the fourth connector may pass, in at least one orientation thereof, in the through hole and the third connector may not pass in the through hole.

Abstract: A bicycle rear derailleur includes a limiter assembly arranged between (i) a first component selected between the support body and the chain guide and (ii) a first connecting arm, to define an extreme value of the internal angle of the articulated parallelogram at the vertex corresponding to the articulation axis shared by them. The limiter assembly has a first member on the first component and a second member on the first connecting arm, which is configured to abut the first member when the first component and the first connecting arm are rotated in the angular direction of approach of the first member to the second member. The second member extends along at least an intermediate section in the transverse direction of the first connecting arm.

Abstract: A bicycle electronic equipment configured to be attached to a location of the bicycle includes a data processing system, a multicolour light source, and a switch. The switch includes a push-button and a two-state electric circuit. The data processing system is configured to: (a) make the light source emit cyclically repeating N coloured light emitting patterns, with N>=3, wherein coloured light emitting patterns immediately consecutive in the cyclical repetition differ in color and/or type of emitting pattern; (b) monitor the state of the switch during execution of step (a); and (c) perform a different action among N different actions according to which of the N coloured light emitting patterns the source is emitting upon the state switching of the switch.

Abstract: An electrically powered bicycle equipment has a component with a seat for removable attachment of an electric power supply unit, and a clamping device of the electric power supply unit to the component. The clamping device is pivotally supported by the component or the electric power supply unit about a first geometric axis stationary with respect thereto, and about a second geometric axis, which is parallel to, pivotal about, and not translatable with respect to, the first geometric axis. Either the component or the electric power supply unit has a retainer member and the clamping device has a retainable member that is urged against the retainer member. The rotation of the clamping device in a first direction about the first axis and in a second direction opposed to the first direction about the second axis allows the retainable member to be brought beyond the retainer member during clamping and unclamping.

Abstract: An electrically powered bicycle equipment has an attachment/detachment seat for an electric power supply unit, and a latch assembly for holding the electric power supply unit in the seated state includes a slider having a head and a back. Either the electric power supply unit or the equipment has a sliding seat for the slider, the other one has a retaining seat for the head. The sliding seat accommodates the back of the slider, which has a peripheral groove and a ring gasket housed in the peripheral groove. The groove has two aligned sections and a deeper intermediate section between them. When the slider is in the fully advanced position, a gasket portion bridges the intermediate section between the two aligned sections, and when the slider moves back, the gasket portion can curve towards the bottom of the intermediate section of the peripheral groove.

Abstract: A bicycle electric/electronic derailleur has a plurality of mutually movable components: a support body configured to be attached to a bicycle frame, a chain guide, and a pair of connecting arms, for connection between the support body and the chain guide at respective geometric articulation axes. A geared motor controls the motion of the plurality of mutually movable components. At least one first component has a case with a chamber containing the geared motor and/or one or more electric/electronic devices. The chamber crosses at least one articulation axis. The case comprises a blind hole that is coaxial with the one axis and open outwards of the case. A second component has a pivot pivotable in the blind hole.

Abstract: A bicycle crankarm provided with an electric/electronic system, including a battery power unit, a processor having a standby mode and a running mode, and a wake unit that emits a wake signal of the processor, wherein the wake unit is completely supported by or in the crankarm.

Abstract: A cogset with a plurality of sprockets has a subset of the sprockets connected together in a monolithic subset that is mounted directly in engagement with a coupling profile on the radially peripheral surface of a sprocket in the monolithic subset. The direct shape coupling between the sprocket of the monolithic subset and the sprocket-carrying body makes it possible to have very high solidity and rigidity of coupling to ensure the maximum precision of actuation of the gearshift that uses the sub-assembly.