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There are internally geared bikes, where all the gears are tucked away inside the hub and then there are externally geared bikes, with a stack of differently sized sprockets on the outside of the hub. Apart from that they're just called gears.

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Gears are called gears. You have internal gears and external gears. Front shifter + front derailer and rear shifter + rear derailer for bikes with external gears.

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Well, at the handle bar you have the shifters, then you have the front and rear derailers, also spelled derailleurs.

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the question is WHAT TYPE of gear like a spur gear, bever gear DUH

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