Patent ID: 7488275

Claim:
An exercise bicycle comprising: a frame; a high-inertia flywheel having an axle housing defining a wall, the axle housing rotatably supported on the frame; a sprocket coupled with the flywheel; a clutch operably connected between the flywheel and the sprocket to engage the sprocket with the flywheel with a break-free force, the clutch including: a one way bearing circumferentially mounted on the axle housing; the sprocket circumferentially mounted in engagement with the one way bearing; a clutch plate circumferentially disposed about the axle housing and operably connected with the sprocket; a clutch plate collar circumferentially disposed about the axle housing adjacent the clutch plate; and a Belleville washer compressed between the wall of the axle housing and the clutch plate collar to compress the clutch plate between the clutch plate collar and the sprocket, and to engage the sprocket to the flywheel with the break-free force.