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  • Fair enough. Where you going dude?

  • Australia. 9th July.

    Loads of cheap track bikes out there, but I fancy a bit of 531 for now.

    btw - I'm planning a ride before I leave. Date June TBC. Theme - Vintage cycling jerseys. You heard it here first!

  • Holy shit that is a divine beauty!!!

    Chainring is weird... every other tooth only?

  • 1" pitch: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_p.html

    The pitch of a chain is the distance between adjacent drive rollers. All modern bicycles use 1/2" pitch. Some older chains, especially those used on track bicycles used 1" pitch chain (see skip link and block chain.) For a while, Shimano experimented with a 10 mm pitch for track use, but it never caught on. Sometimes people mistakenly refer to "track pitch" vs. "road pitch" when they are really referring to the wider (1/8") sprockets used on single-speed bicycles, instead of the 3/32" thick sprockets used on derailer-equipped bicycles.

    An 8-tooth sproket for 1" pitch chain (left) is equivalent to a 16 for standard 1/2" chain.

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