Surly tensioner

All,

Realise I'm doing it all wrong with the vertical dropouts but have am running a surly tensioner which seems to lose its tension the whole time - I set it up, lock it off with a cone spanner, but then after a big hill or two it loses the tension and starts skipping. Of course it's easy to reset it with the cone spanner but would prefer to not have to do this - am I missing something?

Ta

G

you're not riding fixed are you?

no - ss

The same thing has been happening to me with my Singulator, my last chain jump was bad. The drive seized up, Singulator's pin got bent, to the point the mechanism jammed against a spoke and slighty bent it. Sought of lost confidence in tensioner in general, though it was running fine for a couple of weeks. Can't find a suitable replacement bolt locally, though Brixton Cycles has them apparently. I ordered a new Gusset tensioner on monday should be at home when I get back.

elwigleeno,
Have you got it pushing up or down? If you have not already it may be worth swapping the spring around to see if the other direction works better for you. I've been using one for a while now and had no problems, SS as well.