title: Chainless bicycle
text: # Chainless bicycle
  
  A chainless bicycle is a bicycle that transmits power to the driven wheel through a mechanism other than a metal chain.
  
  ## Examples
  
  * Directly driven bicycle (see penny-farthing and unicycle)
  * Shaft-driven bicycle
  * Belt-driven bicycle
  * Hydraulic bicycle (and pneumatic bicycle)
  * Hybrid vehicle (see series hybrid bicycle)
  * Some rowed bikes use a cable or a linkage.
  * Stringbike the pulley-driven Hungarian designed bike
  