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02-28-06, 07:40 PM
Okay, I know it's been asked before, and I did try looking it up, but I didn't find anything that I understood or that helped me.
My chain seems to be binding, if I understand what binding is. It's really loud, and there's a lot of friction such that if I spin the wheel with the bike upside-down, it stops pretty quickly. I don't notice so much when I'm riding it, but I'm guessing I'm having to put a lot more effort into it than I should need to. If I set the wheel forward a bunch in the dropouts (horizontal), the wheel spins a whole lot more for the same amount of force. Problem then is, I've got a slacky chain which I hate to ride with.
I tried looking at Sheldon's page on this, and I have no idea what he's talking about. "Set the rear axle so that the chain pulls taut at the tightest part of the cranks' rotation." Huh? Wouldn't the tightest part of the rotation be the point at which the chain pulls taut? The purpose of this part is to make the chainring straight, but is that even my problem? The tension definitely isn't even all the way through the pedal rotation. I'm not using any huge force on pushing the wheel back in the dropouts, just leverage with the bike upside-down. What do I need to do? Are there chain tensioners that work for horizontal dropouts?
My chain seems to be binding, if I understand what binding is. It's really loud, and there's a lot of friction such that if I spin the wheel with the bike upside-down, it stops pretty quickly. I don't notice so much when I'm riding it, but I'm guessing I'm having to put a lot more effort into it than I should need to. If I set the wheel forward a bunch in the dropouts (horizontal), the wheel spins a whole lot more for the same amount of force. Problem then is, I've got a slacky chain which I hate to ride with.
I tried looking at Sheldon's page on this, and I have no idea what he's talking about. "Set the rear axle so that the chain pulls taut at the tightest part of the cranks' rotation." Huh? Wouldn't the tightest part of the rotation be the point at which the chain pulls taut? The purpose of this part is to make the chainring straight, but is that even my problem? The tension definitely isn't even all the way through the pedal rotation. I'm not using any huge force on pushing the wheel back in the dropouts, just leverage with the bike upside-down. What do I need to do? Are there chain tensioners that work for horizontal dropouts?