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Meaning of shafty | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A bicycle that uses a driveshaft instead of a chain to transmit power from the pedals to the wheel.

informal

Examples

“At the rear, you'll find a single, centrally mounted shock, the now-familiar single-sided swingarm and BMW's Paralever shaft-drive system, which does away with most of a shafty's chassis-jacking bugaboos.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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