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17-08.-2004, 01:55 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Can I have two chain rings
The cranks on my old Takara that I am fixin to make into a fixie are old cottered Suginos but seem to be in decent shape. The problem is if I want to have just the 40 tooth chain ring I have to get new cranks because only the 52 chain ring is attached to the cranks and the 40 tooth is bolted to the 52. The question: can I just leave both chain rings on and use only the 40 tooth one? It won't look terribly cool, but it should not be a problem.
Anyone else do this? |
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06-11.-2004, 04:06 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Canada
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Re: Can I have two chain rings
Yes, you can do that. You might even want to grind the teeth off the 52T ring to give it a cleaner look.
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28-11.-2004, 12:45 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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Re: Can I have two chain rings
Cottered cranks suck, and I think they're worse on fixies. Mine always loosesed up on rides and I would have to keep tightening them and I finally said screw this and got a square-tapered one and a cartridge bottom bracket. I think it might have had to do with the back-pressure of pedaling or something but maybe they didn't have this problem in the old days.
I didn't have this problem on my three-speed bike. The only reason I still have a cottered crank on that is it has cool letter cutouts on it that spell the brand of the bike. |
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28-11.-2004, 01:42 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: Can I have two chain rings
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I think you are right. I submitted and replaced my cottered cranks with square tapered 8 speed dura ace cranks. I'm definitely happier! |
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01-12.-2004, 03:14 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: Can I have two chain rings
both of my chainrings were attached to the cranks, I fixed that with a hacksaw, eventually i'll get a new crank arm so i can change the chainring, but for now it works
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24-02.-2005, 05:02 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: san diego
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Re: Can I have two chain rings
i still run the stock cottered crank on one of my fixes...however i opted to remove the inner ring and just deal with the gigantor 52t...it's paired with an 18t cog so it isn't to unbearable...but yeah...cottered cranks do suck...
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