lets see you retro singlespeeds...

[perry]

could i have a close up of the surlys rear hub please ? any problems with its spacing ?

 

[al]

Hi Perry,

the rear hub is an American Classic cassette hub with spacers.

Al.


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[perry]

oh , looked like a respaced 120mm opposite dished threaded

 

[al]

Ruddy nora! no,i am a simple chap.

Al.

 

[s_zigmond]

My fixed gear 700c RC200

 

[MikeD]

The whole idea is to increase chain wrap/ reduce slip.

Well, quite. That's why pushing-up is better. Lots of these bikes seem to have more chain than strictly necessary, tensioners hanging down at funny angles and chain running on about a quarter of the sprocket ;-)

 

[LongboardSi]

my M2 in strathpuffer guise....

 

[kaiser]

my M2 in strathpuffer guise....

wowsers :shock: thats what I call a saddle to bar drop

 

[lumos2000]

The whole idea is to increase chain wrap/ reduce slip.

Well, quite. That's why pushing-up is better. Lots of these bikes seem to have more chain than strictly necessary, tensioners hanging down at funny angles and chain running on about a quarter of the sprocket ;-)

i can see your point, i tryed every combination with my set up and ended up with the tensioner becouse it worked, can i run a half link on a normal chain? or would it be better to get a half link chain? i tryed to not use the tensioner as the gear hanger thread has been stripped out and im using a female bolt thing

 

[Octsoc]

i can see your point, i tryed every combination with my set up and ended up with the tensioner becouse it worked, can i run a half link on a normal chain? or would it be better to get a half link chain? i tryed to not use the tensioner as the gear hanger thread has been stripped out and im using a female bolt thing

You can run a half link on a regular chain.

There is also a BB mount tensioner, although I still like the no tensioner look better if I had a choice.