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Some might remember I posted recently that a shop had told me to change my chainring from an MTB one to proper fixed one. I asked on here if it was dangerous like the shop had told me.
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread21943.html
There was a good amount of banter of course:
"MTB chainrings attacked my village, killed my brother and ran off with my Fiancé"
"Guys, this isn't funny, my brother was killed by a mtb chainring..."
The consensus it seemed was that mine chainring was fine, that the shop was ripping me off and trying to flog me a new one, so I stayed with the MTB.
However after two hours riding my chainring went from this:
to
It meant I ground to a halt in shaftesbury avenue with a bus about to go up my ass.
Not a nice feeling!
My takeout is twofold, don't put mtb chainring on a fixed and consider what the pros have to sa.