Abstract: A carrier rack for a two-wheeled vehicle, in particular for a bicycle, has a carrying body and struts supporting the same. A lower fastening element is mounted on the struts, and an upper fastening element is mounted on the carrying body for fastening the carrier rack on the vehicle. The lower fastening element can be fitted onto a retaining part, fastenable on the vehicle. It can be brought into operative connection with the retaining part, and released again therefrom, by turning the carrier rack with respect to the retaining part. The upper fastening element is a clamping-type closure which can be manually clamped on, and released again from, a tube of the two-wheeled vehicle. Consequently, the carrier rack can, quickly and easily, be fitted on, and removed from, a two-wheeled vehicle such as a bicycle or mountain bike.

Abstract: A pair of brake shoes (36) arranged opposite one another are intended for engaging the side faces of a rim (F) and are each fastened to the end region of an arm (30, 31) of a brake caliper (29). The arms (30, 31) are jointly pivotable, counter to the effect of a restoring spring (47), in a plane at a right angle to the direction of frictional force, and moreover the brake shoes are displaceable to a restricted extent in a direction at a right angle to the pivoting plane. The arms (30, 31) interact with a sloping face (23, 24), in order, during the displacement of the brake shoes (36), to be pressed against the corresponding side face of the rim (F) in an assisted manner.

Abstract: Two support legs mutually coupled to have a common pivoting motion between a supporting position and a rest or idle position are mounted in a pivot block or head mountable behind the drive sprocket bearing of a two-wheeled vehicle, such as a bicycle or moped. In the rest or idle position, both support legs are substantially horizontal and in the supporting position both support legs are substantially upright and spread apart from one another. In order to reduce the construction height of the pivot block or head and not diminish the ground clearance of the two-wheeled vehicle, both support legs are arranged on the side of the vehicle opposite the drive sprocket when they are in the rest or idle position. An arrangement is provided to force one support leg away from the other support leg as both support legs are pivoted into the supporting position.

Abstract: A connection coupling or socket arrangement contains two coupling parts each possessing a bore and arranged at an angle with respect to one another. In order to be able to interconnect rods or the like with one another, without the use of further components, the one coupling part serving for receiving one of the rods is continuously lengthwise slotted over the length of its bore. The end regions of this one coupling part bounding at such lengthwise or longitudinal slot each carry a respective portion or section of the other coupling part which is divided into such two portions or sections transversely with respect to its bore. These portions are subjected to the action of a resilient or spring force which strives to mutually shift both of these portions with respect to one another transversely in relation to its bore.

Abstract: A luggage carrier intended to be attached over the front wheel of a bicycle contains an attachment device serving for the attachment of the luggage carrier at the steering fork head. To improve the torsional resistance of the luggage carrier and to be able to secure such luggage carrier also at the steering fork heads of existing vehicles without the need to disassemble any parts, the attachment device comprises two caps or hood members intended to engage about both shoulders of the steering fork head. Each of these caps can be fixedly clamped by means of a preferably wedge-shaped clamping body at the related shoulder of the steering fork head.

Abstract: A bicycle luggage carrier equipped with a recognition and safety device, comprising a holder bracket hingedly connected to the rear end of a frame and loaded by a spring arranged at the region of the hinge connection, and a support plate facing towards the rear for carrying reflectors. The support plate is arranged between lateral flap members and is connected therewith into a skirt engaging about the rear end of the frame and downwardly depending therefrom.