My chain isn't straight what are my options?

Hi I'm in the progress of building up a single seed and have hot a bit of a snag. Basically my chain isn't straight, it is angled slightly between the freewheel and the crank. When the bike shop fitted the chain they said for about half an hours work (£15) they could swap the hub round and re-dish the wheel and that would move the freewheel over by about 1cm, they recon that this would sort out the chain making straighter.

Now I could either do this and it would be ok for me for now, I'm new to single speeds/fixed gears. I do plan on going single speed eventually but probably not until after christmas, so one of the other options I have is to buy a new single speed wheel or a flip flop wheel. I would rather not do this as I have literally just bought wheels for my bike. I was wondering, is there spacers you can buy to move the freewheel out a bit thus straightening the chain?

you can see here how it isn't inline

Cheers

Chris

you can get some bottom bracket spacers to space out the freewheel a little, just make sure you've got enough threads left after spacing
by how much is the chainline off? you can get away with a bit more on singlespeed compared to fixed.

bend the chain

just pay up and get the shop to redish it. even if you swap spacers around the axle it needs to be redished anyway. unless you're handy with a spoke key which, no offense, i assume you're not since you're asking this question.

What BB width do you have now? Although TBH I doubt reducing this would help that much as the chainline is way out. For spacers look at velosolo.

just pay up and get the shop to redish it. even if you swap spacers around the axle it needs to be redished anyway. unless you're handy with a spoke key which, no offense, i assume you're not since you're asking this question.

But like Ed says 15 dolla for a redish is prob best bet.

it only looks a few mm out. Just ride it til it breaks. No point spending money on something if it works.

What crankset are you using? Some cranksets allow for the chainring to be fitted on the pedal side, or on the frame side, saving a couple millimeters.

But all in all, its cheaper and easier to just have your wheel re-dished.

re-dish, doubt you can get the cranks any closer in. Miche do a bottom bracket that is cheap and adjustable but it looks like the teeth might hits your stay. Jut re-dish and get riding!

just pay up and get the shop to redish it. even if you swap spacers around the axle it needs to be redished anyway. unless you're handy with a spoke key which, no offense, i assume you're not since you're asking this question.

But like Ed says 15 dolla for a redish is prob best bet.

But all in all, its cheaper and easier to just have your wheel re-dished.

re-dish, doubt you can get the cranks any closer in. Miche do a bottom bracket that is cheap and adjustable but it looks like the teeth might hits your stay. Jut re-dish and get riding!

^this

get a rear brake when you're in the shop getting your wheel dished too

The solid advice never ends round here....

Cheers for the advice, looking at it closely I reckon the 1cm that getting the wheel re-dished will be enough to get the chain near enough straight.

@31t®um I have a rear brake ready to go on the bike but I haven't put it on yet, the bike is very much still in the build process.