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couldn't find any black chainsets lower than a 42 lying around.
Stupid question, but why not get a bigger cog?
edscoble-
ha, not a stupid question. i had a basic idea of which ratios i could use that fulfilled the folloing criteria:
- ~50GI singlespeed and ~60GI fixed
- ergo max 4 teeth between fixed and ss cogs for flipflop (luckily pomp dropouts are fairly long)
- odd t fixed cog for max skid patches (arguably unnecessary but old habits etc)
i had a 44t on there to start with but you'd have to run a 19t cog and a 23t freewheel which is basically a dishplate. it's massive. do not want.
laner argued fairly convincingly for marginally better power transfer with a larger chainring when i joked about the marginal gains of running a smaller chainset and cog, but basically the biggest factor was that i just wanted a smaller one - i preferred the aesthetic. i don't have many standards when it comes to bikes but when i want something i'll do it.
@amey it was literally all i had in the house! i'm not abashed, they do the job
@andyp i'll keep it in mind (YAL and i could be pompino princesses together)! still ultra bruised from incredibly cross and then offroading all sunday
- ~50GI singlespeed and ~60GI fixed
ioreka
at the behest of @youramericanlover even though i can't take a good picture to save my life:
built up a fun beater pompino for (fixed) commuting and sscx, couldn't find any black chainsets lower than a 42 lying around so at the moment it's silver but soon i'll replace with black and put some crabon forks on. currently testing some TVR paint for cole coatings - the pictures don't do it justice at all, it's a subtle intergalactic delight irl: