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Old July 10th 17, 01:43 PM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,alt.usage.english
Jack Campin
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The more unlikely term is "chainwheel". I'd say that's pretty
rare in BrE, foreign-sounding even. It's usually "chainring"
for the cogs at the front

"chainwheel" is used by the British company Brompton Bicycle Ltd.
It is used to refer to the whole "wheel" to which the pedals are
attached. The "chainring" is the replaceable outer part of the
assembly.


I've only ever known "chainwheel" as the word for that, too.
All standard books on bicycles use it (like Richard's Bicycle
Book, written by an American but first published in the UK,
where he lived).

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