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  • Genuine Q,

    I consider myself to have pretty terminal brain worms (stage 5, pushing into my frontal lobe), but I’ve never gotten the chain tensioner hate, they look pretty funky in a kinda outdated mechano aesthetic yet people seem to react worse to them than like, abelism I’m cycling culture

    Can anyone explain?

  • The beauty of a singlespeed/fixed drivetrain is that you don't need a chain tensioner/derailleur. Just a chainring and a freewheel/cog, connected with a chain. It just looks clean. Getting a frame that requires a chain tensioner to set it up singlespeed just screams 'afterthought' to me.

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