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Old 11-19-02, 04:01 PM
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D*Alex, you may have mis-stated the following:

Bushingless chains have less curvature than regular chains. If your chainline is off (mine is...) then this seems to be the best way to go.
I checked with Sheldon Brown's Chain Page and found the following:

Since the "bushing" of a bushingless chain is made up of two halves that don't connect directly with each other, this type of chain is more flexible sideways than a conventional chain. This is because the two halves of the "bushing" have a bit of "wiggle room" with respect to each other.
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/chains.html

Gotta love Sheldon's Pages.

So, I'm going with a 3/32 bushingless chain that was designed for non-deraileur applications. Bushingless to accomadate any chainline problems (as suggested by D*Alex) and non-deraileur to help with any chain-dropping problems do to my uneven chain tension (which has a thread of its own).
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