Patent ID: 7044564

Claim:
A bicycle rear hub comprising: a hub shaft configured and arranged to be non-rotatably mounted to a rear part of a bicycle frame; a hub shell rotatably mounted on the hub shaft; first and second bearing units arranged between the hub shaft and opposite ends of the hub shell; a drive body rotatably mounted to one end of the hub shell; a one-way clutch arranged between the drive body and the hub shell, the one-way clutch being configured to transmit rotation from the drive body to the hub shell in one direction; a sprocket fixedly mounted to a radially outward-facing surface of the drive body such that it neither rotates nor moves axially relative to the drive body; and a cover member mounted to the drive body to overlie the radially outward-facing surface of the drive body with a tip edge of the cover member contacting an outside lateral surface of the sprocket.