Patent ID: 6626604
Filing Date: 2003-09-30
Classification: B62K,F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
A bicycle frame with a detachable carbon monostay, comprising:a tubular extension provided at said fame; a stem provided at said monostay; a connecting element constituted by a first insert and by a second insert each having respective first and, opposite, second ends thereof; mechanical connection means actuatable for detachably connecting and locking said first ends of said inserts to each other, and a first axial, shaped seat, provided at one of the first ends of said first and second inserts, said shaped seat being shaped complementarily to the other one of the first ends of said first and second inserts, said first and second inserts being connected to each other by axial insertion of said other one of the first ends of the first and second inserts in said shaped seat provided at said one of said first ends of the first and second inserts and mutually locked by actuation of said connection means, the second end of said first insert being rigidly coupled with the stem of the carbon monostay, and the second end of the second insert being rigidly coupled to the tubular extension of the frame, said first insert being further provided with a first, transversal, circular through hole arranged at a lateral surface of said first end thereof for passage of said mechanical connection means and said first end of said second insert being provided with a second, transversal, blind hole which is coaxial to said fist hole and has a smaller diameter than said first hole.