{"id":2764,"date":"2010-08-26T22:11:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T02:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2010-08-26T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T02:17:00","slug":"new-chainring-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/26\/new-chainring-time\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chainring Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n

I’ve dropped the chain on my single speed a few times lately, noticing that the chain has become more and more slack. Since I’m not noticing any dropout\/wheel slipping since sorting out the sliding dropout issue<\/a> I decided to measure the chain. Lo and behold, when using my trusty Park CC-3<\/a> I found that it’s stretched .75% in some places, 1.0% in others. When I went to swap the chain tonight I decided to clean the chainring, only to find the telltale burrs and hooked tooth pattern indicating it’s time to replace the chainring. Being aluminum this Spot<\/a> chainring was bound to <\/p>\n

I think I’ll just get a nice stainless steel Surly<\/a> 104mm BCD x 34t then reassemble it all without the Salsa bash guard<\/a>, although the bash guard may be worth keeping just to protect everything. Hopefully between with the new chainring, proper tensioning, and a new chain everything will stay in place and the chain will remain nicely tensioned.<\/p>\n

At least these aren’t the kind of problems that I’d have with carbon fiber chainrings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve dropped the chain on my single speed a few times lately, noticing that the chain has become more and more slack. Since I’m not…<\/p>\n

Continue readingNew Chainring Time<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2767,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions\/2767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}