coaster brake
Noun
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Noun
coaster brake (plural coaster brakes)
- A special rear hub for a bicycle that functions as a brake when the user pedals backwards, and which allows the bicycle to roll without forcing the pedals to turn.
- Synonyms: back pedal brake, foot brake
- Hypernyms: drum brake
- 2017, Suze Clemitson, A History of Cycling in 100 Objects, Bloomsbury Publishing (ISBN 9781472918895), page 54 ↗:
- The coaster brake is one of the three types of braking mechanism developed to slow down and stop a bike safely and efficiently. This mechanism quickly gained in popularity in the USA, Germany and the Netherlands in the 1890s and is still used for upright and children's bicycles.
- German: Rücktrittbremse
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