The finding refers to bicycles, particularly to the so-called mountain bikes and more generally to all two-wheeled means of transport with similar requirements. When bicycles are used at a competitive level and on rough terrain, their areas of connection of the wheels to the forks are submitted to very high stress, especially critical for the front wheel when its hub is connected to the mobile legs of a telescopic shock absorbing suspension. In order to deal with the high stress, it is necessary, for example, to reinforce the connection of the telescopic fork to the wheel hub, by using hubs of greater diameter than those normally used and therefore suppiying the fork with connectors of greater diameter than those of known technology. Even the new hubs with larger diameter and the reinforced fork connectors are today reciprocally connected with the known solution of axle connection, according to which every connector of the fork with the usual forked configuration surrounds the wheel hub for 180 degrees and is placed between two lateral abutting ends of the hub itself, which is fixed between them with a rapid connection tool that includes means used to bring the screw and nut together and lever and eccentric means for a rapid lock and release. This tool for rapid axial connection does not always attain the desired result, since the connecting force is exclusively entrusted to the tightening packages friction on the parts and since the friction itself can vary as a function of the ability, sensitivity and physical strength of the user, who often tends to actuate the lever and eccentric means of locking and release with lower physical force.

In the motorcycle and moped sector, according to a well known technique, the foot of the legs of the telescopic fork is connected to the ends of the anterior wheel hub, with radial connecting tubes which make use of connecting plates placed transversally and below the part of the hub which is not involved in the forked configuration of each connection of the fork, being the connection

plates fixed to the ends of the connector with screws. In certain cases, one end of the connection plates is permanently articulated to a corresponding extremity of the fork connection, in such a manner that the connection of the connection plate itself may be carried out with the use of a single screw.

These tools may overcome the disadvantages which are currently known in the bicycle field with the use of the traditional tool for rapid axial connection, but cannot be proposed as an alternative because the hubs of bicycle wheels are normally equipped with the said tool for axial connection, since, when necessary, the bicycles are also used with the normal connection device for axial connection and since the known devices for radial connection are not suited to be assembled and disassembled with the same speed and simplicity of the axial connection devices.

The finding intends to obviate these and other problems of the known technique with the following idea as a solution. The connection of each leg of the telescopic fork is carried out with the usual forked configuration, but it is given a recess or protrusion on one side and supplied with an appendage with a hole which is, for example, threaded and parallel to the leg of the fork on the opposite side. The fork with these connections can be connected to the wheel hub with the known rapid axial connection tool and/or may be connected in a safer manner by means of the connection plates supplied with the fork and equipped at one end with a male or female part which may be anchored by a joint to said frontal recess or protrusion of each connection. On the other end the connection plates are equipped with a bored appendage which is placed over the appendage with hole of the other side to be connected, on which a screw which may be worked with a small wrench or supplied with its own means of rotation and possibly a system for quick lever and eccentric connection or disconnection. The connection plate attached to the lower part of each connection of the fork touches the part of the hub left free by the forked configuration of the connection and radially connects the hub in said connection, preventing any radial movement, even in the presence of great stress.

Additional characteristics of the finding and the resulting advantages will

appear more evident in the following description of some of the preferred methods for accomplishing the same, which are illustrated solely as an example, and are not limiting, in the figures of the two attached drawings, in which: -Figures 1 and 2 are a side view and a bottom view of the connection according to the present invention, with the connection plate connected in working condition ; -Figure 3 illustrates the connection as per the preceding figures, sectioned according to a plane which is vertical and perpendicular to the wheel hub ; -Figure 4 is a side view of the connection according to a variation which foresees the use of a fixing screw with its own means of rotation; -Figure 5 is a side view of the connection according to another variation which foresees the use of a screw with its own means of rotation and with rapid eccentric connection.

In figures 1,2 and 3 the leg of the telescopic fork G has an interior sheath with upper appendage A1 for the connection of a bracing arch and with lower appendages A2 to support a braking pincer. In the same example, which is absolutely not limiting, the leg of the fork is equipped with a lower connection 1 for the connection to the wheel hub, which is placed in an off-centre position with respect to the leg G. It is understood that the improvements being dealt with are protected regardless of the type of fork or connection to which they are applied.

Connection 1 according to the finding is shaped like a fork open towards the bottom, that is has the typical shape of the known connections, in order to house the hub M of the wheel and be fixed to it by means of the fast tool for axial connection of the hub. To this end the opposite sides 101 of the connection are suitably flat.

Connection 1 according to the finding differs from the known connections because it presents a recessed transversal front 2 and an appendage 3 capable of housing a hole 4, preferably blind, open towards the bottom, threaded and square to the hub M on the opposite side.

Each leg of the fork G is supplied with a connection plate 5 which is slightly

narrower than connection 1, equipped with an end 105 with a hook shape anchored to the recess 2 of the connection 1, since the parts 2 and 105 are formed to create a cylindrical joint. The connection plate 5 presents a middle part 205 with internally arched shape, which joins the lower roundness of the hub M and is supplied with an end appendage 305 which is opposite to appendage 3 of the connection and equipped with a passing hole 6 flared towards the outside and lined up with the threaded hole 4. A screw 7 can be inserted in the hole 6, for example a screw with conical head and of recessed hexagonal type, which is screwed into hole 4 with a suitable wrench in order to firmly fix the connection plate 5 beneath the connection 1, transversally and below the hub M, as to prevent any minimal radial movement of the hub itself on the inside of the connection 1 itself.

Figure 4 illustrates a variation according to which the screw 7\'is equipped with its own means of rotation, for example a butterfly screw, and is supplied with an elastic anti-loosening ring 8.

Figure 5 illustrates another variation according to which the screw 7"is equipped with a"T"head 107 on which an off-centre turner 207 is mounted with a small lever 307 that, when it is in the position indicated by the dotted line, prepares the rotation of the screw and when it is fixed on the connection plate 5, as indicated by the continuous mark, brings the most off-centre part of 207 to co-operate with the appendage 305 of the connection plate, stopping the rotation of the screw 7".

If the leg G of the fork is supplied with lower parts that can be adjusted or inspected from below, not illustrated, to permit a freer access to these parts, the end 105 of the connection plate 5 may be equipped with an external recess 405 (figures 1,2 and 3).

It is understood that the description refers to some preferred forms of construction of the claim, to which numerous constructive variants and modifications may be applied, referred for example to the fact that hole 4 may be otherwise passing and not threaded and that a nut may be placed above the appendage 3 for the screw 7,7\'or 7". Another variation may refer to the fact that in place of the recess 2 an equivalent raised part may be foreseen,

which will co-operate with the corresponding recessed part of an end of the connection plate 5.

These and all the modifications that can be devised by the technicians in the field fall within the scope of the finding, as shown above, as illustrated and subsequently claimed.

In the claims section, the references noted in parentheses are purely indicative and not limiting in the protection scope of the claims.