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Does anyone know a nice hard compound tyre that will stand up to some skid abuse?

The topic of this thread is so massively homosexual...

like me asking if i should get purple and white tyres for my purple (b) and white (f) wheels?

like i said... hugely gay

loctite and mussels from brussels should do the trick... if you haven't already round off your crank.

have ya had a look at it? if where it fits round the taper looks all rounded, then you might need a new crank. You can try wrapping silicone tape around the spindle before mounting the crank too.

I ended up using white spirit on a cloth to soak the remainders, then a knife to cut it off (the tape hand been on for 30 years...)

If your worried about marking the bars, you can use a drill with a polishing head to bring them back to shiny.

I was experiencing something like this, and pinned it down to a bit of slack in the chain...

I could live with it, until bombing down a hill yesterday at full tilt, and the chain decided to drop off the chainring. luckily didn't get stuck in the spokes and shred my lovely new wheel, it just locked my back wheel up, resulting in the mother of all skids, lasting about 30 or 40 metres fishtailing all over the shop I was bricking it. (busy main road in rush hour with cars passing at 40-50mph) Finally slid to a halt and checked my tire, surprised it looked ok.. then saw how it had gone through to the casing and was completley flat for about 4 inches. It was a bumpy ride home!

So anyway way question 1 :

I'm guessing the chain dropping off was due to it being slack, but does anyone have a good method for getting really good chain tension? I'm running an old bob jackson frame, with front loading horizontal drop outs. I just can seem to get the chain super tight?

Question 2: Anyone know any good strong and cheapish tires? I've been running 23c s but could fit something a bit bigger, not too big and slow though, but something that won't die if i do a40 metre 30 mph skid? (which is pretty unlikely i have to admit, but would be nice to know the option was there.)

All help would be greatly appreciated, cheers!