Or: cogset, cluster, cassette (if freehub), sprocket set, corncob (if 1 tooth jumps), freewheel (metonymy -- *not* synecdoche) and probably other really hip old, British working class terms that I can't remember.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > > On 01/10/2016 05:19 AM, Kevin Lindsey wrote: > > A "gear ring" is the toothed ring that, when stacked with ten others, > forms the eleven-speed cluster. I'm sure there's a more precise - or, at > least, a less redundant - word for it, but using only the word "gear" > sounded ambiguous, and "ring" non-descript, thus "gear ring." > > > That is called a *sprocket, gear, cogwheel* or *cog*. The last is > ambiguous, because it generally means a single tooth but also can refer to > the entire sprocket. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
