Patent ID: 7967709

Claim:
A bicycle sprocket comprising: a metallic sprocket ring part having a crank facing surface, an opposing surface, an inner periphery and an outer periphery with a plurality of sprocket teeth arranged thereon, the sprocket ring part including at least one connecting portion integrally formed with the sprocket ring part as a one-piece, unitary member, with the at least one connecting portion defining a plurality of fastener receiving holes, each of the fastener receiving holes having a maximum circumferential width extending between first and second circumferential end points with respect to a circumferential direction of the metallic sprocket ring; and a non-metallic inner ring part at least partially overlapping the inner periphery, the crank facing surface and the opposing surface of the metallic sprocket ring part to at least partially non-movably couple the non-metallic inner ring part to the metallic sprocket ring part with the at least one connecting portion that surrounds the fastener receiving holes being absent of the non-metallic inner ring part to allow relative elastic deformation between the metallic sprocket ring part and the non-metallic inner ring in an axial direction, the non-metallic inner ring part being disposed radially inward of the fastener receiving holes with respect to an axis of rotation of the bicycle sprocket, the metallic sprocket ring part being entirely free of the non-metallic inner ring part in areas located radially outward of and adjacent to the fastener receiving holes and located in between radically extending lines that extend from the first and second circumferential end points of each of the fastener receiving holes to an outer periphery edge of the metallic sprocket ring part, the non-metallic inner ring part not overlapping at least the crank facing surface at the locations of the fastener receiving holes.