It's the little things that make the big difference

Like adding chain tugs.

If I'd known the difference would be so great I would've done it sooner. £15 for the 8mm ones from Hubjub.co.uk , and now I have a truly sweet chain tension that has not only silenced the drivetrain but also feels like it has more feedback and responsiveness.

I'd tried getting this kind of tension before, but I could never maintain it. It always slipped a little and became loose. After a few days with chain tugs though, no slack at all :)

Lovely jubbly.

do you think they are essential when you have track ends? i am hopefully picking up my condor pista in the next couple of days and it doesn't come with them, hubs are goldtec with the allen bolts so i suspect not able to be tightened as much as a nut?

I have track ends, nice long ones.

I also have Formula hubs (I believe... the IRO ones are Formula I understand).

The locknuts on the Formulas are shit, they break. So I couldn't get as much tightness against the track ends as I wanted for fear that over-tightening would break yet another locknut.

The tugs are wonderful though, no over-tightening anywhere and they just hold the axle perfectly where you want it to be without you having to over-tighten the track bolts to achieve it.

fuckin luxury

what's wrong with running your chain too slack and tensioning it back up every other day like I do, chewing the drops up along the way?

having thought this through long and hard, i think chain tugs are good. unless they don't fit your bike. then they're not good. they're bad.

and it was worth dredging a thread for?

chain tugs are fuckin pointless

Oh, how the general tone of threads has changed over the years.

Oh, how the general tone of threads has changed over the years.

I don't know, RPM seems to have remained consistent looking at the two posts :-)

and it was worth dredging a thread for?

chain tugs are fuckin pointless

come come now, RPM, if it wasn't me annoying you, it'd just be someone else. Now, take a deep breath and quote a pithy line from Blade Runner; take another deep breath; hold it in; let it out... feels good doesn't it.

aE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>VDZ

EDIT: That was, it seems, what my cat wanted to say. Sorry about that.

and it was worth dredging a thread for?

chain tugs are fuckin pointless

Dredging is better than a new thread.

Chaintugs are useful. Not absolutely essential, but they do a job... well. Anyone who says otherwise is, in my humble and irrelevant opinion, talking guff.

my humble and irrelevant opinion

Which like most on here is based on fuck all.

Unless of course you are using those hipster hubs with allen bolts (instead of proper track nuts) on shiny smooth track ends, in which case you probably need the dumbfuck tugs to stop your wheel slipping under your awesome power.

Usually a washer and/or a long allen bolt solve that.

Which like most on here is based on fuck all.

Unless of course you are using those hipster hubs with allen bolts (instead of proper track nuts) on shiny smooth track ends, in which case you probably need the dumbfuck tugs to stop your wheel slipping under your awesome power.

No.

It is based on my experience of having used them for fucking ages on a variety of different kinds of bikes.

And with regard to your other comments/analysis... meeeeeeeh.

Which like most on here is based on fuck all.

Unless of course you are using those hipster hubs with allen bolts (instead of proper track nuts) on shiny smooth track ends, in which case you probably need the dumbfuck tugs to stop your wheel slipping under your awesome power.

Must spread more, etc, etc.

Resurrection.

Shifter on wife's bike went kaput. This is what I found inside. Happy to report it's now working again, wonderfully.

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