Bicycle wheel Bicycle wheel A bicycle wheel is a wheel, most commonly a wire wheel, designed for a bicycle. A pair is often called a wheelset, especially in the context of ready built "off the shelf" performance-oriented wheels. Bicycle wheels are typically designed to fit into the frame and fork via dropouts, and hold bicycle tires. The first bicycle wheels followed the traditions of carriage building: a wooden hub, a fixed steel axle (the bearings were located in the fork ends), wooden spokes and a shrink fitted iron tire. A typical modern wheel has a metal hub, wire tension spokes and a
The Emory Wheel available for free, including downloadable PDFs of the paper copies. The Emory Wheel The Emory Wheel is the independent, student-run newspaper at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The "Wheel" is published once a week on Wednesday during the regular school year, and is updated daily on its website. The sections of the "Wheel" include News, Opinion, Sports, Arts & Entertainment, Emory Life and, formerly, "The Hub", an award-winning quarterly magazine founded in 2005. Serving the Emory community since 1919, the "Wheel" is editorially and financially independent from the University. The staff is composed entirely of students. The "Wheel" offices are