{"id":3510,"date":"2011-06-20T21:47:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T01:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2011-06-20T21:47:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T01:47:18","slug":"time-for-new-chainrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/time-for-new-chainrings\/","title":{"rendered":"Time For New Chainrings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/titus_racer_x_29er\/IMG_6149.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/97673-2\/IMG_6149.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Large burr \/ torn metal that formed on the middle ring of the stock FSA crankset. It's time to replace the rings.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>While riding this past week I had a few occurrences of what seemed like a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/fagan.co.za\/Bikes\/Csuck\/\">chain suck<\/a> which quickly corrected itself. I&#8217;ve also been having a problem with the chain dropping into the smallest chainring up front, telling me that it&#8217;s time to look at (and readjust) my drivetrain. Looking over the rings this evening I found this large burr on the middle ring, along with a whole bunch of wear<sup>\u2020<\/sup>, which means that it&#8217;s time to replace the middle chainring. I also got to looking at the cassette, and it&#8217;s likely due for replacement too, with small burrs forming on the more commonly used cogs. The chain is fine, with Park Tool&#8217;s CC-3 indicating less than .75% stretch, and thus safe to continue using.<\/p>\n<p>When I built up the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/salsa-el-mariachi-built\/\">Salsa El Mariachi<\/a> I used a Race Face Deus crankset purchased on a deal from Wickwerks which got me the crankset and a triple set of Wickwerks rings for <a href=\"http:\/\/wickwerks.com\/Products\/MountainXCRaceFaceDeus.html\">just under $200<\/a>. With the crankset now fitted with a Surly ring I have the Wickwerks rings left over and ready to go on the Titus. While the smallest and largest rings aren&#8217;t worn enough to replace I think I&#8217;ll replace them anyway so that I&#8217;ve got a matching Wickwerks set along with it&#8217;s high performance shifting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably do this all sometime later in the week, as tonight&#8217;s going to involve going to bed early. In the mean time I&#8217;ve got two other excellent bikes to ride.<\/p>\n<p><sup>\u2020<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/titus_racer_x_29er\/fsa_middle_ring_worn.jpg.html\">Photo of worn, almost hooked middle chainring from the Titus&#8217; original crankset.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While riding this past week I had a few occurrences of what seemed like a bit of chain suck which quickly corrected itself. I&#8217;ve also&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/time-for-new-chainrings\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time For New Chainrings<\/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-3510","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\/3510","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=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}