Patent ID: 9409619
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: B60B,B62K

Claim Text:
1. A portion of a bicycle comprising: a wheel mounting assembly including a right and a left arm for securing a right and a left side of a bicycle wheel; a hub assembly; a tension rod assembly including a rotatable fastener and an array of teeth; and a tension-release assembly that includes a camming member configured and arranged to rotate about a camming rotational axis that is substantially transverse to the tension rod assembly; wherein the array of teeth of the tension rod assembly is selectively engaged to at least one of the tension-release assembly or the rotatable fastener when a relative angle between the tension rod assembly and the at least one of the tension-release assembly or the rotatable fastener is at a first angle and the array of teeth are disengaged when the relative angle is at a second angle; wherein at least portions of the array of teeth of the tension rod assembly are disengaged from at least one of the tension-release assembly or the rotatable fastener and the tension rod assembly is removable from the wheel mounting assembly when at least the relative angle between the tension rod assembly and the at least one of the rotatable fastener or the tension-release assembly is oriented at the second angle; and wherein rotating the camming member about the camming rotational axis that is substantially transverse to the tension rod assembly selectively applies a clamping force from the tension-release assembly to at least a portion of the wheel mounting assembly.