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Why micro gearing sucks for race bikes...

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teamsano:
imagine how flappy that ring would be if it was the size of a 44t?

hope the dude is ok.  :(

kennyhunter6061:
Don't say that gogo - I'm now running a 45/16 setup on my Saints, so I can run my lovely new graphite skyways  :smitten:  Just like old times eh!  Although, my 45T ring is one of the new Profile ones so hopefully a bit tougher than the Shimano jobs

Dark Diggler:

--- Quote from: HEYWOOD BMX on February 27, 2008, 07:10 PM --- :) I sometimes run a 36/13 on my racebike and have broken a few chains off the gate.When I watch some of the local street riders come down to my track with 25/9,they seem to pedal like hell but go nowhere!

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25/9 gives you slightly more poke than 44/16 dude, and a smidge more than 36/13  :daumenhoch:

80sdave:
That chainring is a TA Chinook which is a very light weight cross country chainring our mechanic uses for endurance racing toally wrong for a bmx who said that will be ok should be  :2gunsfiring_v1:

Longun:
Got to say I don't think the problem lies in micro gearing, but in the use of a 4 bolt spider and a lightweight chainring. Can't imagine something like a Profile Imperial folding over like that.

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