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non driveside
slackish chain

"champagnolo"

love it.

You're such a broom handle

non driveside
slackish chain

You need to be educated on chain tension! It is not good to have your chain as tight as humanly possible. It will cause more friction (ie mean you have to put more work in to maintain speed) and it will wear out your drive chain faster. Ideally I'd say you want about a half inch of play. This'd give you the optimum balance of tension while keeping friction down. That bike looks pretty much spot on.

non driveside
slackish chain

oh the humanity!

Putting bikes non-driveside out seems to be a Japanese thing!?! I personally wouldn't lose sleep over it like some on this forum.

You need to be educated on chain tension! It is not good to have your chain as tight as humanly possible. It will cause more friction (ie mean you have to put more work in to maintain speed) and it will wear out your drive chain faster. Ideally I'd say you want about a half inch of play. This'd give you the optimum balance of tension while keeping friction down. That bike looks pretty much spot on.

+1 especially when you're racing on the track..

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You're such a broom handle

i resent that comparison. i was referring to an Edscoble typo.

he tends to make a few!

i resent that comparison. i was referring to an Edscoble typo.

Don't be such an oven glove!!

are you just looking at item in your kitchen while you were writing that?

I wouldn't mind having an NJS knee cap.

having and NJS kneecap would have all sorts of negative implications

I wouldn't mind having an NJS knee cap.

I think hammering the stamp into your knee-cap might make it kind of useless.

i'm sure that this isn't for most of you and I hated this frame when I first saw it, but built up like this I think it's kinda nice

I hated this frame when I first saw it, but built up like this I think it's kinda nice

+1

You need to be educated on chain tension! It is not good to have your chain as tight as humanly possible. It will cause more friction (ie mean you have to put more work in to maintain speed) and it will wear out your drive chain faster. Ideally I'd say you want about a half inch of play. This'd give you the optimum balance of tension while keeping friction down. That bike looks pretty much spot on.

i HATE slack chain of any amount, but i never said to tighten it as much as humanly possible. i prefer as little play as possible, but i dont over tighten it i know what's too tight

i'm sure that this isn't for most of you and I hated this frame when I first saw it, but built up like this I think it's kinda nice

trick-tastic?

The frame does look a bit thin for heavy tricking thought, SuperTed can easily snap that frame if he have his own way!

To be honest I really don't like it... Have the feeling it'll stand the test of time though as it progresses

i'm sure that this isn't for most of you and I hated this frame when I first saw it, but built up like this I think it's kinda nice

Good luck maintaining chain tension with those dropouts. Every time you ride off a kerb you're going to push the axle up to the end.

i HATE slack chain of any amount, but i never said to tighten it as much as humanly possible. i prefer as little play as possible, but i dont over tighten it i know what's too tight

yeah but if you look at any real track bikes you'll notice that the chain is intentionally 'slack' as this means that the bike is running at maximum efficiency, due to reduced friction.
And that bike is a real track bike.

On the street and for skidding, you want to be a bit tighter to prevent the potential of the chain jumping off midway.

about the above frame, the dropouts look daft, and I don't like chrome.

But that is an opinion, and frankly I love the differing styles that appear on this thread, and the resulting vitriol over others opinions (including my own, occasionally- probably)

yeah but if you look at any real track bikes you'll notice that the chain is intentionally 'slack' as this means that the bike is running at maximum efficiency.
And that bike is a real track bike.

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yeah but i dont ride a "real" track bike i ride a road frame with track bits on it. i built my bike to be efficient on the road.

anyway im not denying that your right about the intentional slackness, but i canny stand it, especially whilst trackstanding

well whatever floats your boat but you're wearing out your components and making your legs work harder all because of the 'slack chain' phenomenon which you seem to be enforcing, however you are ironically the victim of it.